Email Author Michael Serazio

2003 Stories by Michael Serazio

• Gen-X Gospel

  published December 11, 2003

  The crowd rolls in at around 5:30 p.m. on Sundays. The name on the red brick church in the Heights is West End Baptist, but the congregation goes... More >>

• Is There a Robot in the House?

  published November 13, 2003

  Activities hour is humming along at the Silverado Senior Living center when Arthur rolls into the room. No one seems to notice him much. He moves... More >>

• Behind the Happy Face

  published October 30, 2003

  Around 3:30 p.m., two men walk through the Wal-Mart parking lot just off Interstate 45 in Friendswood. A bald plainclothes police officer trails... More >>

• Big Steps

  published October 23, 2003

  There are several things that Moy Rivas can think about in this flickering moment before the music drops. One, he can look down at his light, wiry... More >>

• Go, Baby, Go

  published October 2, 2003

  On a cool spring morning, Sheree Tullos, a University of Houston political science major, came on the main campus carrying a bomb. It didn't take... More >>

• Godspell

  published August 21, 2003

  For the Reverend Dr. Dana Carson, the revelation unfolded in installments. In early 2002, Carson, pastor of Praise Tabernacle, a predominantly... More >>

• First and Foremost

  published August 21, 2003

  With wrinkled fingers, Lillian Niederhofer diagrams the street, the history and the problem here. This semiretired real estate businesswoman... More >>

• Revolution's Face

  published August 21, 2003

  If the racial revolution the Reverend Dana Carson is proposing has a face, then that face might be Rikki Howland's. As the empty flatbed of an... More >>

• Jail Hell

  published August 7, 2003

  On March 15, Cissy Aikins and her husband, Mike, went to visit her brother at the Montgomery County Jail in Conroe. James Henry Mitchell had been... More >>