Short Stories´ Blog

 Hey everyone¡ 

It´s Esteban, this Blog´s writer. Let me introduce Myself  before start reading this awsome blog.

My whole name is Juan Esteban Valero Casas, I was born in the Colombia´s Capital "Bogotá", although I,ve been living in Armenia around a year and a half ago. I am 20 years old, I´m currently studying music at University of Quindio - Bellas Artes. I am also a current english student at Colombo Americano´s academy where I´m actually about to finish the whole course. 

The Black Coat Ghost 

Instead a long awaited son, another daugther was born. Even though being part of an important and rich family from Tyrone, this girl did not feel loved at all, and her days got even darker when her loved old sister left far away to Dublin as Mrs Carew. Almost a year after her sister's wedding an unexpected letter from Mr Carew just arrieved, apparently some kind of illness her sister had gotten. The couple was getting back to Tyrone.

The Day just came and a noise was heard by the family, making them believe it was her, suspiciously It wasn´t, there was nothing at all. The next day, they were told she was dead, for the next two years sadder and sadder the days were getting and this poor girl had been proposed to marry many times, until they flied to Dublin to meet some others more interesting mens. In there she was not thinking about her sister's dead as much as she did before, cause she started to have some fun. Unfortunately her mother was not happy about it, she took her there to find a better husband for her daugther so she suggested Lord Glenfallen, in fact the girl had already met him. At the beginning she did not like the idea of being his wife, however, the next morning she agreed to her mother. 

She got married that spring, leaving Tyrone they arrived Cahergillagh. She was in her incredible husband´s house, full of trees and flowers in the garden, birds singing on the top of the trees and being the house near from a lake, she felt really happy with her husband. Then she met Martha who was the one in charge of cleaning and cooking, the girl felt pretty comfortable and happy in there. Martha took her to her new bedroom, everything was going good until the big door was opened, becouse some weird and bad feelings were brought to the girl when apparently saw a black coat, she told Martha about it and Martha did not doubt to warn her about the bad things use to happen to Glenfallen´s family when that coat is seen by someone. They went down to have dinner and she didn´t say a thing to her husband about what Martha just had said recently. 

The next day the newlyweds went out for a walk, so that the wife could get to know the house better . Nevertheless, having suspicious and worring faces Lord Glenfallen asked her not to go into the rooms at the back of the building. She Understood his words but she also noticed he did not smiled nor laughed any more in that place, trying to forget about everything she was told, the only thing she wanted was being happy once again like when she just got there for the first time. A month later, she met certain woman about forty years old, sitting next to the fire and wearing a black coat. She got close to her and looked the white eyes and white skin of the strange and apparently blind women. This mysterious woman asked for Lord Glenfallen saying she wanted him, to which the girl replied, introducing herself as the Lady Glenfallen and ordering the blind woman to go out of her room. After hearing that, the blind women crying and denying the previously said by the girl, suddenly hit her.

Lord Glenfallen walked into the room while his wife was running out, staying out there the girl waited to ask her husband what was going on, to which he did not answered a word, just replied about forget her as he did before. 

After that it was getting harder and harder for the girl to talk to her husband who has gotten a different behavior as looking into the fire for a long time, being sad, afraid, etc. Until an unexpected morning after having breackfast when Lord Glenfallen suddenly just talked the girl about having the answer and having to go away to another country. He asked her; However, he didn´t even waited for hearing her answer, he just left the room. It was difficult for the girl becouse she did not want to be so far away from his parents, she was thinking about it all the day but she never gave him an answer anyway. 

Not Having slept becouse of a black coat dream, she just woke up and there was the blind woman  holding a knife at the end of her bed, just wanting to know if Lord Glenfallen had married her, to which she replied yes. The blind woman confessed she used to be her wife too, so, getting a dead therat from the blind woman the girl was told she had to leave the house tomorrow in order to stay alive. 

Next morning she told her husband what just had happened last night and asked him once againg who was that woman, he got frozen when heard about it answering to it "she is not my wife, you are" leaving the room then. Feeling the girl really overwhelmed she looked for Martha who tried to calm her down then asked this scary girl to listen her. Martha told her about the blind woman´s story, She was already dead, she used to be the Lord Glenfallen´s wife and it is said that Lord Glenfallen was holding a knife when she died what makes him the possible killer. However, the knife was on the floor next to her and someone had taken her eyes out, but nobady knew about it. 

Finally she felt too afraid that after hearing the story Martha just told her about the blind woman, she did not doubt about it, said goodbye to Martha and took her bags and went back to Tyrone. She was back at home and she felt rarely good in there as she never did when she was younger, sometimes her dead sister showed up in his room and used to tell her that the blind woman was waiting to kill her someday.    

Lord Glenfallen´s Background

Lord Glenfallen used to be a nice kind, handsome and such a gentleman when talking the ladies. At the univiersity he met a pretty green eyes´ girl who looked as nice as the rest of the people in there. She must have deeply fallen in love with him, for Lord Glenfallen this girl was kind of attractive too so she handled it up and made him her boyfriend. Manipulated Lord Glenfallen had been thus he´d have agreed to marry her, and place had been taken this wedding just few weeks later. 

They got married and over the years he´d have relized that a toxic relationship he was getting in. It was a day when he crashed his car, so he had to leave it in the workshop. However, due to his kindness and sort of skills for talking he had several friendships, and that same day he met some of his friends from the university so decided to hang out. It was too late and as he didn´t have car that night a friend agreed to take him home. The night was frezzing so his wife was wearing a black coat in the meantime she waited to him, they finally arrived and she saw them through the window, she must have thought he was cheating on her, so upset was her and such were the jealous that she took a knife and tried to kill him. Unfortunately he ended up killing her on his own defense nevertheless a word was never told about it, he faked such a credible story for not get into a jail. 

After this tragedy he got cold, afraid and sad trying to hide such a dark past of his life, nevertheless he did not expect those paranormal events after her dead. 

Poem About Your Laugh´s Interpretation 

Reading a poem can get confusing and even misunderstood sometimes. Have you ever gotten the feel of being pretty sure about the poem´s topic, however, even though you read it once, twice or as many times as you want, at the end what you get about the poem is still the same  well, that´s my case. 

The title "Poem about your laugh" seems to be such a romatic line in which would develop an even more romantic text in the poem´s body. However, the author instead coming up with gorgeous comparisons, is showing up some sort of strange scenarios when refering her laugh. When you read the lines "it is all the unsynchronized clocks in the watchmaker's shop striking their dissident hours", disorder or something annoying could probably come up to your mind. The same as "It is six blind kittens having the nipples plucked from their mouths", you don't get a good feeling regarding the previous lines for sure, pretty much not the best comparison for your loved's laugh at all. 

Nevertheless, to conclude I guess these weird situations might have a pourpose about expressing how her laugh can get you out of the real world for a moment or even expressing how in love you are with her that just a  smile or laugh can make you forget about the rest and keeping you focus only on her. 

High School Love Affair

As far as I know  

The perfection you were 

Wearing a Ramones T-shirt 

Just like an angel you seemed 

The day you got closer 

The time just got frozen 

                                        

Your eyes staring at mines 

More than a tousand words 

They could easily express 

Dancing, kissing and so much more 

In my mind, a picture of us I have got

 

Sharing our dreams and thoughts 

We´ve taken the long way home

The night has gotten really cold 

And givnig to you my jean jacket 

Our first kiss just has come

High School Love Affair pretty much describes how different events and thoughts looked like for a guy fallen in love with a girl of his school, it´s been shown the way he feels about her during the whole poem, however at the end of the night they end up kissing and thus the poem would end too.