STORY WITH DICTATOR AND CARD S
(a short story)
At that time the dictator Joaquin Iturbide owned a factory and had the monopoly cards the sale of cards in the country and one day he came to declare the June 26 Friendship Day cards created for that day had an unexpected success in the population and achieved spectacular gains for the company, this led to the dictator to declare August 14 the day of the Envy and the success will be repeated. And by its own inertia dynamics continued success and within five years every day of the year were cornered and had Grudge day and day of the Infidel and Bride's Grandparents Day and Day of the wives who love but in reality day is hate and Worshipper of Onan and day of which she lay down with their servants and day of the Marquis de Sade Reader and day dreaming of the centaurs. To rise to the new occurrences had to divide the day into several parts: on January 3 in the evening was declared when those who like making love in the dark of a cinema and 16 October in the morning upon which Do not kill even a fly, and Dec. 21 at noon when the Chachachá nostalgic. And so on. The dictator and could more money annually by selling cards with openly stealing from the coffers of the country, but refused to relinquish power. I wanted to die with him, and very old, venerable patriarch.
When death came to him was indeed very old. In his honor, the Board declared the country Notables the four p.m. with twenty-seven minutes and fifteen seconds on April 2 as the fleeting moment of perpetual dictator.
In Disappearances (Simón Patiño, Cochabamba, 1994) Missed (Alfaguara: Miami, 2004) Images of the fire (Algaida: Cádiz, 2005)
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