Two friends

They were on the beach in the shining sun. Mariano had fair hair while Evgueni had brown hair. They were being friends for half an hour. The children were laughing together, splashing together, speaking loudly together, throwing wet sand together. Mariano could only speak Spanish and Evgueni only spoke Russian.

The pub terrace musician

It was supper time and people were eating at hotels and restaurants. He was about sixty, long white hair and black glasses. He was singing rock and roll old songs. White plastic chairs in an empty beach pub terrace were his audience. Nevertheless, he struggled to get a good performance.

The strong man

He could pull from a big truck, throw a dish-washer metres away. He was able to raise heavy stones and grab a bull by its neck and put him on the ground. He was asked the diet he followed. He said he followed a strict diet: eating lots of everything.

The sofa

Joaõ’d arrived at the beach with his friends. They all had made arrangements to spend San Juan’s Night having a good time. People prepared the fires. Joaõ jumped full of energy, but he crashed against the arm of a burning sofa. He burned  to death. Nobody dared to do anything.

Animal warmth

She lived alone in her tiny apartment. When she returned home from work, no noisy children were waiting for her. Everything was quiet...except her cute playful puppy. It was the only living being that died for her caresses. After its cancer, it had to be sacrificed. She got disconsolate.

A nail house

They had lived there for ages. That house had been the result of thousands of hours of effort and of millions of  yuans. The government wanted to expropriate him for a few yuans. He refused the offer. Now he lives in a nail house in the middle of a motorway.

The barbecue

His life did not change after the motorbike accident. He kept on running his beach pub. One day he was preparing a hamburger at his barbecue when the telephone rang. While he was talking, he smelled burnt meat. It was the fingers of his paralyzed arm. He hang up.

Freedom

The master and his disciple were discussing about the meaning of freedom. The disciple argued: “The highest expression of freedom is having the ability to choose at every moment what to do.” Then, the master asked him: “What if one decides to become a slave for the rest of his days?”

Envy

The two brothers stood in front of their father. He told his younger son: “I decided how to split my legacy: you will get forty; your brother sixty”. The son, full of envy, replied:  “I do not care how much to get, provided it is not less than my brother.”