Short Story: Cuca & Frida Kahlo's Illegal Quinceañera

Episode Fifteen: Cuca & Frida Kahlo's Illegal Quinceañera is a Short Story

about undocumented immigrants. Suitable for Hispanic/Latino/Chicano & Multicultural Oral Communication Presentations. 33 pages.

Attempting to gain social acceptance, Cuca and Dora earn money for Cuca’s illegal quinceañera by posing for El Maestro, Juan Diego Riviera (Diego Rivera in real life) while his wife, Fria Kalòr "Mari" (Frida Kahlo in real life) plans the 4th of July event at El Sobacco Ballroom in Boyle Heights. "Mari" gets in trouble with Hollenbeck cops when she shoots up the dance hall because zoot suiters bump into her slow-moving crippled legs, then, she chops her Mexican braids off!

This collection of 17 interrelated short stories was first published by the author,

Norma Landa Flores under the title, “From Jalisco to Boyle Heights: Plays for Reader’s Theatre, Stage or TV, A Collection of 17 Plays for Oral Performance.”

Copyright © PAu-128-796 by the Register of Copyrights, USA on July 9, 2007. Frida and Diego were employers and personal friends of the author's family.

These cuentos, stories about thinking in two cultures, speaking in two languages and adapting to everyday bicultural communication interactions with grace, compassion and humor, came from my family, friends and neighbor’s memories and conversations. Cherish them. They are part of our multicultural community’s herencia, inheritance.