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Life
Marco Antonio Garay Cartagena
Date of Birth: April 11, 1976.
Place of Birth: Santa Rita, Yoro, Honduras, Central America.
Married to Francis Milena Euceda Alvarado.
Children: Marco Antonio Jr. Cartagena, Melanie Nicole Garay and Stacey Milena Garay.
He currently resides in the city of Aurora, Colorado, USA.
Age: 48 years.
Studies:
Primary:
• Urban School of Men Dionisio de Herrera. (Santa Rita, Yoro). 2º degree. (1983)
• Manuel Bonilla Mixed Rural School. (South White Water). 1º, 3º-6º. Primary certificate. (1982, 1984-1987).
Secondary:
• Roberto Micheletti Baín Official Institute. (Agua Blanca Sur). 1º and 2º of Common Cycle. (1988-1989). Honduras
• Gavino Vásquez Argueta Official Institute. (Santa Rita Yoro). 3º of Common Cycle. (1990) Honduras.
Career:
• Gavino Vásquez Argueta Official Institute. (Santa Rita Yoro). Commercial Expert and Public Accountant Diploma. (1993) Honduras.
University:
• Regional University Center of the North (CURN) (San Pedro, Sula) Degree in Letters. (1994-1997). Honduras.
• Metro School, Los Angeles, California. (ESL Diploma) (2001).
• Hesperia School Distance Learning, (Hesperia, California, USA) High School Diploma (2007).
• Emily Griffith Technical College (Denver, Colorado, USA) Computer Networking (2017).
• Pickens Thecnical College (Aurora, Colorado, USA) HVAC-R (2024)
Works:
• The Descendant of the Stone (2019).
Fiction novel based on real events and surrealism. Three angels arrive in Rio de Janeiro Brazil in 1877 to protect the Descendant of the Stone (a direct descendant of the apostle Peter) who is born every hundred years, in the year of perfection: 77. The child has the powers of the apostle Peter and the power to restore fallen angels who seek him to be freed from their curses. The three angels fall in love with three prostitutes and fall with them. Therefore, they are punished and condemned to live in animal bodies, but with angelic faces. And to be released, they must look for the next Descendant of the Stone who will be born the following century (1977) with the help of subjects with whom they make deals.
• Barefoot (2020).
Fiction novel and magical surrealism. Spaniards invade indigenous peoples to enslave, steal, rape and kill. But they come arrun into Sabino, an only child and with the powers of the gods. Her great love, Pajuna, is kidnapped by the invaders, and Sabino grows committed to one day, when he becomes an adult, going out to look for her until he finds her. He meets the magic of children with Down syndrome and discovers their hidden powers. Innocent, a boy who suffers from this syndrome, one of the descendants of Pajuna, gives the enhancement and the magical touch to the story with his powers to read the mind and the past of people, with whom life puts him in front when the time finally comes to walk among the civilized world that considers him crazy, simply because of his different appearance.
• The Castle (2021).
Fiction and horror novel. A bombing perpetrated in a Palestinian town kills two girls in the Salamé house during a party celebrating the birth of a boy: Demetrio. The girls become spirits and their wish is that their brother grows up becomes an architect and builds an identical house. Demetrio flees wars and emigrates to Honduras after graduating as an architect and the spirits follow him to fulfill their wishes. Every midnight they leave him money under the pillow from his adolescence until he became a very rich man. The new house is built and nicknamed El Castillo, just like the other one in Palestine. Here a plot of suspense, betrayals and deaths takes place, where Zulai and Emir, the other two brothers, have to solve the mystery of all these deaths and the harassment of these spirits who seem not to want to rest until they fulfill their whims.
• The School of Unlearning (That's how Grandpa spoke) (2022).
Novel based on reality and social problems that afflict our cities. A former philosophy professor, from the University of Zaragoza, Spain, after giving up the empty life that big cities offer, gets married and moves to the countryside. There, in an impoverished but happy home, together with his wife they found The School of Unlearning to educate their descendants in a way very different from the system. In the end, after losing her daughter and granddaughter, already aged, widowed and is left alone with her great-grandson whom she intends to inherit all the knowledge and wisdom, based on her stoicism, her experiences in the field, Greek, Roman, Hindu, Arab and contemporary philosophy. Life connects them with eleven prostitutes, who for managing to meet the requirement to obtain an inheritance, become the disciples of The School of Unlearning. They will have to change their lives in a radical way and obtain a university degree. Don Alejandro and Aristotle will be in charge of helping them achieve this purpose in The School of Dislearning.
• The Side of a miserable (2023).
A novel based on the real life of a boy who suffers all kinds of vicissitudes and his resilience to stay focused on his longings and goals. The story is narrated from the angle of the protagonist who shows a series of emotions and feelings towards everyone around him. The plot is sad and sometimes happy flooded by sorrows and painful events that in the end show how not to give up, despite any suffering inflicted by the same family, friends and even their teachers. The story begins in childhood and ends in adolescence when it's grandfather's turn to leave. It teaches us that we all live day by day walking on a path where one must decide for oneself, whether it is glorious or miserable.
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