I had acquired the ability to see what went through people’s minds. Call it mind reading, precognition, prescience, or psychic ability. I don’t know, but I had it. I had reached my sixty-fifth birthday and decided that it was time to retire. After forty-five years as a dentist in a well-to-do community in Venezuela, I […]

Since I had become a US citizen when I was very young, it was easy for my wife and I to move to the United States and establish ourselves in one of the cities of Dade County, Florida. We had thought about moving to California, but so many of the people we knew had relocated […]

My first contact was my friend Luiz Mella. He was a petroleum engineer who had worked in Caracas, Venezuela, where I had my practice. I had performed an emergency procedure on one of his sons on January 1, at 1:00 a.m., after he had his front tooth knocked out. I happened to have been at the […]

Early the next morning, my trustworthy cell-phone alarm clock woke us up. We hurried through our routine morning preparation and went for a quick breakfast. We had to be ready before 7:45 a.m. for a bus pickup. The ride to Chacara Flora, a part of Santo Amaro, one of Sao Paulo’s largest suburbs, took over an hour. […]

The rest of that day we spent in the Ibirapuera Mall. We wanted to spend a few hours walking around in air conditioning. It had been a hot and sweaty morning, and we wanted to distract ourselves with realistic endeavors, like shopping. We had received invitations for that evening but declined. We wanted to have […]

The first thing I noticed was absurd. I looked at my wife, and I could see exactly what she was thinking. “Listen, Honey,” I said. “You’ve really been thinking about the white dress you saw yesterday, haven’t you?” She looked at me, amazed. “How did you know? I was just thinking about that.” Then she […]

My interview with Anita Finley for Boomer Times talking about my book The Mind Reader