The title story ends with the main character waking up and yelling "No!," after dreaming of a man who'd committed suicide in prison with sleeping pills, and who calls her a cannibal and murderer.
One story in this collection follows Rosaleen O'Toole, who struggles with the impotency of her aging husband Dennis after 25 years of marriage. In another story, a maid tells the tale of a prostitute Ninette who gets abused and kicked out of her brothel only to be lured back by a mystic ritual. In addition to "The Cracked Looking-Glass," another story sees the archeologist Givens aid the husband of the title woman, who is deserted when he joins the army. The title story ends with the main character waking up and yelling "No!," after dreaming of a man who'd committed suicide in prison with sleeping pills, and who calls her a cannibal and murderer. The stories "Magic" and "Maria Concepcion" are joined by that title story, in which Braggioni repeatedly tries to court Laura, a Catholic schoolteacher who has come to Mexico to aid the revolution. FTP, name this collection by Katherine Anne Porter titled after a certain tree and its symbolic blossom.
One story in this collection follows Rosaleen O'Toole, who struggles with the impotency of her aging husband Dennis after 25 years of marriage.
{Flowering Judas} (and Other Stories)