Showing posts with label short story. Show all posts
Showing posts with label short story. Show all posts
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Guille y su hermana


Algunas veces y sin pensarlo mucho, Guille se subía al techo para ver si por un motivo (aunque fuese pequeño) su corazon de hotel comenzara a latir a mil por hora. Pareciera que mucho tiempo habia pasado desde que habria sentido esa emocion de adolescente, cuando lo vio por primera vez y le parecio que era su mundo entero, tan guapo y elegante, con los bigotes bien peinados y los ojos verdes tan expresivos como misteriosos. Pero luego eran solo ella y la luna, y Guille se hacia como que no se aburria de las mismas platicas de siempre con la Luna. Nomas de verla sabia perfectamente lo que su hermana la celeste le iba a platicar: redonda, seguro hablaria del amor, de los poetas, de los suspiros y de la magia; en cuna, entonces le daba por la maternidad y le preguntaria miles de veces por su cria y le contaba que ella se moria de ganas de tener uno igual que ella, blanco y con ojos de magia; si se vestia de negro, le daba por filosofar y entonces entablaba la conversacion eterna entre la vida y la muerte… y de estar partida, se le partia el corazon y lloraba por el que nunca regreso.  

Nada mas que hacer que escuchar a su querida hermana, pensaba Guille mientras la luna hablaba y ella se relamia los bigotes y se bañaba, mas que asomarse de vez en cuando a la vuelta de la esquina y esperar. Total, a la noche siguiente renaceria la esperanza de volver a ver al gallardo minino que se habria llevado prestado un pedacito de su corazon.
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Imagination at Work

Luego de buscarla por todos los rincones, por fin la encontro. Y ahi, enmedio de todo su desastre, agarro el primer papel que se encontro y emocionado por lo que encontro ser su primer idea, comenzo a llenar el dedo en la tinta del tintero y a escribir, letra por letra, palabra por palabra. Al principio, lo admitia, fue dificil, pero luego, conforme las lineas iban cobrando vida y conforme los protagonistas de su relato iban contando anecdota, le fue dificil parar. Siguio y siguio... escribiendo con entusiasmo cada linea de su historia en donde una a una, las estrellas iban cobrando vida, los planetas se iban formando y la luz se separaba de la oscuridad....



-- YHCH
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The “SCARE THE DICKENS OUT OF US” Short Story Contest 2010

 

The “SCARE THE DICKENS OUT OF US” Short Story Contest 2010
AND
The JUNIOR “SCARE THE DICKENS OUT OF US” Contest 2010 FOR AGES 12-18

Sponsored by the Friends of the Dr. Eugene Clark Library in Lockhart, Texas.

First prize, $1000.00 and a trophy.
Second prize, $500.00 and a ribbon.
Third prize, $250.00 and a ribbon.
Junior contest prize $250.00 and a trophy.

Download contest entry form here.
Download junior contest entry form here.
Entry fee $20.00 (check or money order).
Junior contest entry fee $5.00 (check or money order).
The Scare The Dickens Out of Us ghost story contest and the Junior Scare The Dickens Out of Us ghost story contest share identical rules except the entry fees and the following: Junior contest writers must be age 12-18. Winners will have to provide proof of age.
All publication rights remain with the author.
The contest is a Friends of the Dr. Eugene Clark Library fundraiser and is privately funded. All entry fees go to the Friends and are used for library projects.
The “Scare The Dickens Out of Us” Short Story Contest is in conjunction with the annual “A Dickens Christmas In Lockhart” which is held on the first weekend in December (Friday night, Saturday) in Lockhart, Texas.
We want ghost stories. Any genre, any tone, any subject, whatever type of ghost story you can come up with.
CONTEST RULES:
1. The contest is open to published and unpublished writers alike. All publication rights remain with the author.
2. The ghost story must be 5,000 words or less, in English, and typed double-spaced. Entries must be original and unpublished. There are no other restrictions.
3. Only one entry per writer.
4. The judging will be done in a blind format. Do not put your name or any other identifying information on the manuscript itself except for the name of the story.
Download, print and submit our entry form. The information will include the name of your story, the author’s name, address, phone number, and email address, where you heard of this contest, and your permission to have your story read out loud at a literary gathering if you are one of the winners.
5. Your manuscript and entry fee must be mailed to us at P.O. Box 821, Lockhart, TX 78644 and must be postmarked no later than October 1, 2010. We will accept entries beginning July 1, 2010.
Winners will be contacted at contest end. Winners also will be announced at the “A Dickens Christmas in Lockhart” festival in December, and will be posted at our web site www.clarklibraryfriends.org.
No manuscripts will be returned. Keep the original copy. At the end of the contest entries will be shredded.
Send your manuscript with entry form and entry fee to “Scare The Dickens Out of Us” or Junior “Scare The Dickens Out of Us” Short Story Contest, co/Friends of the Library, PO Box 821, Lockhart, Texas 78644. Make out your check or money order to Friends of the Dr. Eugene Clark Library.
Administrators of the contest, the judges of the contest and the immediate family members of the judges are ineligible to enter this contest.
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Reservoir Tears

A non-told story is what the afternoon of an average Sunday is asking me to tell. I don’t even know where to start looking for the gateway that leads me to the exact day I met Micka - by sheer coincidence or something akin to that - next to the grave of some random corpse whom he didn’t even knew the name of, but he cried as if this corpse had been his best buddy his entire life. And that’s how Micka made his bread and butter: crying over the dead man’s body that crossed his way and then accompany the family over to the house for the talk, comfort, and free food, making a toast to the dead, or making small conversation with the deceased’s friends, family, and even the occasional mistress.



God damn! That’s what friends are for, right? To remind the world that the dead man is not him or you, but rather the one with dirt for a sheet and who didn’t seem care if Micka dated the wife, the daughter, the girlfriend, and whom Micka didn’t care for until next morning's sunrise, when he would slither away amongst the shadows to find another corpse to cry for, get a free meal and move on. It wasn’t as if it was something difficult to do, since the city had become a battle field of epic proportions, and Micka was always good in giving a speech that would make people forget the evil spirits that dwindle upon those who had recently parted, converting them in some righteous soul who just happened to be at the wrong place, at the wrong time.



God damn! That’s what friends are for, right? Because it wasn’t long that after the burial of the son of some rich Senator, the bullets began raining on the entire family just as they were serving the caviar at the fancy dinner funeral party, and Micka was the one at the wrong place, at the wrong time, hanging with the wrong crowd. And here I am, at this effortless, unknown burial. The truth is that Micka never had any real friends but me, the one soul who never abandoned him at his burials and funeral parties, much less at his own. The only problem is that I should get going because, since there won’t be any cheese crackers or fine wine in his funeral, I need my tears for the one that’s just coming across the graveyard’s gates and (by the look of things) it promises to be well worth the wait.
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Voice of Summer

But I can see you-
Your brown skin shining in the sun
You got your hair combed back and your
Sunglasses on, baby
And I can tell you my love for you
Will still be strong after the boys of
Summer have gone

- Don Henley


It was summertime. And if I want to be all poetic here, I could tell you that it was in the middle of July, but it wasn't. It was June. It must of been a blessed day because the clouds covered the sky and for the first time in a long time, rain was threatening to fall upon us. And I could see you --- standing on the edge of the street and leaning against the hood of my car, your curly, blond hair brushing against the wind. It must of been something in the air that took you back to the yesteryears of your youth, and as I stood on the door frame, I wondered who did you see, whose voice were you listening to, which memory came to you first. I didn't want to disturb that.

Yet, you opened your eyes, turned to me, and smiled as you turned back to the wind, your eyes closed once again.

"Come and smell the sea breeze," you said.

The sea. Oh, mom! You left your heart and soul in the sea, I thought to myself as I opened the car's door and placed my school bag inside.

It was summertime. And if I want to be all poetic here, I could tell you that the sea breeze was blowing through our hair that afternoon. But the truth is that we live in the middle of the desert... and the closest thing to the sea is the painting that hangs on my mom's bedroom wall.
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