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Fiction: A Very Short Story by Cecilia Brainard

August 29, 2018 by admin

I’m shar­ing a flash fic­tion or short short of mine today. This has 125 words. “A Very Short Sto­ry” is part of my sec­ond short sto­ry col­lec­tion, Aca­pul­co at Sun­set and Oth­er Stories. 

 

 A VERY SHORT STORY

 by Cecil­ia Manguer­ra Brainard

Your world — or your mind — does not allow for an after­noon walk to the muse­um, nor a stop at the chapel for silent prayer, a glass of halo-halo under the ipil-ipil, laugh­ter and sto­ries, for old time’s sake.

It allows for a few hours at the Hilton. Face like stone you give a false name to the man at the reg­istry, pay in cash, and ascend to the sun-streamed room, for an after­noon of sad, hot-blood­ed lovemaking.

Face like stone, you tell your wife whom you have long-ago stopped lov­ing, that you had a late busi­ness meet­ing with some Japan­ese clients. (It’s the same sto­ry you had left at your office ear­li­er that day.)

And you won­der why you go about in mut­ed sor­row and anger.

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Tags: fic­tion, flash fic­tion, short short, micro fic­tion, lit­er­a­ture, Philip­pines, Fil­ipino, Cecil­ia Brainard

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Filipino, flash fiction, literature, Philippines

Welcome!

I am a daugh­ter of the Philip­pines and an adopt­ed daugh­ter of Amer­i­ca. I have also trav­eled to many places so I am also a daugh­ter of the Earth. My expe­ri­ences have found their way into my sto­ries, which try to depict char­ac­ters caught in impor­tant moments in their lives, sit­u­a­tions that force them to act, make deci­sions, change. I try to see the world from my own point of view, not the dom­i­nant West­ern one, thus my inter­est in his­to­ry, cul­ture, and set­ting. But my char­ac­ters car­ry my sto­ries; they are the most impor­tant in my sto­ry-telling. I have to dive deep into them to under­stand their human­i­ty – their good­ness as well as their bad­ness, their beau­ty as well as their ugli­ness. Just like us. Just like each of us. I need to know where they came from, where they are now, so I under­stand where they are going. Just like us.

Please read my full biog­ra­phy here

 

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