Writing

I used to make a joke that my parents gave so much creativity to my older sister, who turned out to become a writer, that I got just a enough to allow me to be a translator and write well, but without actually creating the stories.
In this blog I’m trying to change this and make my creativity grow.

  • Fiction: Flying monkeys

    The monkeys jumped from branch to branch among the forest trees. Nice, but it wasn’t like flying. Sometimes they would climb all the way to the top of the tallest trees to look at the sky and dream of flying high. Every time the lucky eagles would  come by, they would ask them to tell the Read more

  • She was born in a flower pot at the city. Too much noise, too few flowers. So, off she flew, away from the city. But all she found was a desert. Big red rocks, dangerous looking lizards, spiders, scorpions, snakes…. Not much water… Only a few low woody bushes…. She felt hungry, thirsty and afraid, and started to regret Read more

  • Plan His plan was infallible this time. Peddle We weren’t sure, but he insisted. Pills Sleeping pills would put them down. Hang Hanging would kill them for good. Giant But the giants were too big. Inch An inch short from finally succeeding. This post was written in response to Six on the Sixth – April 2016, Read more

  • Fiction: Perfection

    Perfect? Heck no! I am not! This post was written in response to the Sometimes Stellar Storyteller Six Word Story Challenge: Perfection. If you like it, you can vote for me on the comments of her site. ;o) Picture from Pixabay.com   Read more

  • Fiction: The Big Wave

    The sun was shining bright and I watched as the water retracted more than usual at the beach. Then a wave of cool and raging water came down over the village, taking with it everything and everyone it found on its way. Several deaths. Millions in damage. All in a fraction of a second. Nothing Read more

  • I’m spying on my husband. I don’t feel proud of it, but it may be worth trying. He says the spark is gone. I don’t understand. Not too long ago the intensity of our love was so big and felt like an earthquake every time we were close to each other. Then it’s gone? All Read more

  • The Artist

    When he was still on diapers, he drew his first squiggly line. A wind blew and a piece of colored yarn flew squiggling past him. As a toddler, he would draw clouds, and the wind would bring some clouds to an otherwise clear sky. As a kid, he would draw cars, and his parents never Read more

  • Library

    He lives in the streets. No mom. No dad. Steals food to survive, but doesn’t like it. The other boys are bad. He doesn’t want to be bad. He learns how to read from a homeless sir he befriended. He would read anything and everything. His dream is to attend school. He asks the mailman to give Read more

  • Mind Her mind started to drift off. Flash She saw flashes of her life. Entry Entering that dreamy state of unconsciousness. Bongo She heard bongos playing somewhere close. Carpet Laying on a carpet of leaves. Swept The winds swept her live away. This post was written in response to the Six on the Sixth Prompt – March 2016, Read more

  • Arrived ring-less, after not answering phone. This post was written in response to the Sometimes Stellar Storyteller Six Word Story Challenge, with prompt word SUSPICION. This is based on a real story, where the suspicion did not confirm and the subject was not guilt. That was actually me. I lost weight and my wedding ring became too Read more

  • Literary Lion: Panther

    ROAAAARRRR!!!!! The sound resonates through the forest, then it ends and silence falls upon the land. Shortly after, comes the smell. The sweetest and most enticing smell you could ever find. Creatures of all sorts start following it, to its source. They seem hypnotized, as if dragged by the smell without even being aware they’re moving at Read more

  • Noses touching. Lips a millimeter apart… This post was written in response to the Sometimes Stellar Storyteller’s six word story challenge. If you like it, please like in on my comment on her post too… ;o) The picture was taken from pixabay.com   Read more

  • Literary Lion: Drink Me

    He sipped and felt the liquid flowing down his system. A nice warm sensation filled his body. In a minute, all would be history.   This post was written in response to the Literary Lion: Drink Me. The picture was edited in Fotor, original grabbed from pixabay.com   Read more

  • Isolated

    They lived in an isolated island. The rest of the world was very close, though, separated from their island by a narrow canal. In years past, some tried crossing the canal to the other side, but were swallowed alive by the sea creatures that populate the passage. But it hasn’t been like this forever. Legend says that Read more

  • February’s Six on the Sixth

    (…or on the eleventh, as I never get to do it on the right date… ;o) This month, the prompt words for the Six on the Sixth challenge are GOBLIN | SPIT | SHINE | BELITTLE | GAPE | MAINTENANCE This time I tried to link them all, and created a 36-word story composed of 6 6-word sentences, Read more

  • Life

    A loud THUD, then silence. His body falls to the ground. I run to check on him. His eyes are still open and expressive. I can hear the drum of his heart. Good! There is still life on him.   This post was written in response to the Weekly Writing Prompt #21, which this week prompts Read more

  • Six Word Story: Sin

    We’re not sinners. The priest was! This post was written in response to this week’s Sometimes Stellar Storyteller Six Word Story Challenge , with the prompt Sin. Writing a story in only 6 words sometimes is really hard. This week I wanted to tell a real story. The story of my own wedding. I guess I managed to Read more

  • Gunslinger

    He is crossing the desert after the man who killed his father. The crossing is though, but the need for revenge keeps him going. After days in open desert, he finally reaches a village. The story of the murder and his seek for revenge travelled faster than he did, though, and the townsfolk knew who Read more

  • This month I decided to try the Six on the Sixth challenge, posted by Adam Ickes. In this challenge, he suggests some prompt words and encourage us to write 6 six-word stories based on not on the prompts. Here are mine. Wrong Can’t you ever do it right? Cap Missed ball, angrily throws his cap. Read more

  • Rebirth

    She wasn’t really superstitious. Or maybe she was, just never admitted. The kind of person that follows the Spanish saying “Yo no creo en Brujas, pero que las hay, las hay”. Like she didn’t believe in ghosts, but would not put her feet on a cemetery at night. She graduated on Economic studies and worked for Read more