My first memory: Disaster in a Park

We are in a park with my older sister. My brother is crying. We were playing near an iron gate. He slipped his head through the bars and now he can’t remove it. He trapped himself. I don’t understand why. If his head fits one way through the bars I...
No discussions, please

No discussions, please

When was the last time your walked away from a discussion, only to think of The Perfect Comeback hours later? Recreate the scene for us, and use your winning line. I avoid discussions. I can’t stand them. At the moment the conversation becomes a discussion I...

The Bull and Mom

It have been raining. The floor was slippery and that was dangerous. The street, packed with people watching the running of the bulls. It was Sunday. Javier was a young man but a veteran runner. He didn’t like to run on Sundays because of the amount of people...
I would die in a month

I would die in a month

If the world worked on a barter system, how would you fare? Would you have services to barter? Would you be successful, or would you struggle? I would die in a month or so. Who would give me some food in exchange for news about the world, being most of them not so...
Fear on the bridge

Fear on the bridge

I’m squeezing my mind trying to find something mysterious about me and can’t come up with anything. I’m a very common and boring person, I guess. I would like to have more sense of humor and tell you a wonderful secret story about myself, but maybe...
A jail without windows

A jail without windows

Dear enemy, I would like to watch you leave for ever from my life, but I have to live with you fighting every day, every moment, as a prisoner in a jail. Yes, you’re my jail. A jail plenty of darkness and lies and chains and locks. A jail without windows,...
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