TAMIU Fall ’16 Grad Gets Short Story Published
Written by Post Public Information Representative, Dec 15, 2016, Comments Off
Courtesy Steve Harmon,
(Laredo, Texas)-Joining the ranks of popular writers who started their careers in science—authors such as Michael Crichton, Kurt Vonnegut, Norman Mailer, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Lewis Carroll and Brian May of Queen—is Texas A&M International University student Esteban Vargas, chemistry major and Fall 2016 Magna Cum Laude graduate.
Vargas’s short story, “A White Noise,” was accepted for publication in “Cecile’s Writers,” a literary magazine in The Netherlands.
“The story is a short fiction piece I wrote for one of my creative writing courses with Dr. Suzette Bishop. It relates the story of a young Costa Rican hanging out with his cousins on a warm, summer night. It’s set in the ‘70s, when electricity was quite scarce in Costa Rica, especially in rural areas such as the one portrayed in the story. The narrator and his cousins are having a conversation and then become witnesses to something they don’t really expect to see. The story includes elements of science fiction and magic realism,” explained Vargas.
Dr. Kameron Jorgensen, TAMIU assistant professor, chemistry, said the pairing of a major in chemistry and a minor in creative writing is unusual.
“While getting published is an exceptional feat amongst itself, what is deserving of additional praise is that Esteban is graduating this December 2016 with a Bachelor’s of Science, Magna Cum Laude, major in chemistry and a minor in creative writing, which is definitely an exciting and untraditional pairing,” Dr. Jorgensen said.
