Carencia, translated from Spanish, is wide ranging in its use and conceptual meaning-

whether it refers to an exclusion period, scarcity, lacking, short-coming, or deficiency.

it can also be a call to action as profound strength for change and growth.

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Timing Is Everything, a collection of short stories, is emblematic of the book's title with the

turn of each page with its charged locales and the lives of the endlessly varied

characters within them. Each story evokes the type of tenderness and vulnerability found only our most observant of seers and storytellers. Each story feels known,

yet remains mysterious as a result of the distinct writing style; the reader's

focus heightens on what is present as a result of what is absent.