I’m trying out a new theme, ’cause I really needed something else to do this month. WRITING PROMPT: Have a character bite off more than he or she can chew. Who suffers? MA

It does so too! Because “Cuban Pete” is … wait for it … a rhumba! Rhumba or rumba is a group of Afro-Cuban percussive patterns and the songs and dances based on them. The word rhumba comes from the Cuban Spanish word for party, and…