The duelist

Two duelists were back to back. They had to walk ten steps apart. One of them turned back after his eighth step and fired. His bullet missed the still walking man. This latter continued walking his three steps. He turned, pointed his gun slowly and killed the other defenseless duelist.

A call in the morning

She lifted the receiver and answered. In the nursery her daughter had swallowed something and couldn’t breathe. She got into her Chevy and rushed to the kindergarden. One hundred meters away from it, she crashed into a truck loaded of guilt complex. When the paramedics arrived, she was already dead.

Her dark side

“Oh, no! I’m incapable of drawing a simple tree”, she used to say. But some years ago she discovered a sudden eagerness to paint pictures. She stopped painting when she realized that what she painted turned real after her paintings had been finished. She was afraid of her dark side.

Childhood's end

He was a successful lawyer, smart, handsome, appreciated by everyone. He had state of the art cars, a great apartment, and belonged to exclusive clubs. He took private Spanish lessons. Talking about childhood, he said his hadn’t been easy. His father was blind and his beloved mother was mentally handicapped.