The Border
When the train arrived, he felt alone, ethereal. Who was he? He was aware of his own hands and fingers, of the skin under them…, maybe much more.
His corpse was in front of him, again strange… past and future.
The cops were around the crowded station -sirens and lights-.., he could fly now, among sounds and skins. Ten o’clock, too late, foggy night. It happened on the third wagon.
-I was waiting for you, my old friend.
Cloudy silent screams.
His voice was ringing familiar like a dark memory, like the bells were sounding broken in his own unreachable dream. He recognized this voice tone, this fury. How could it be? When? He turned his face off, with a brilliant movement of his eyes, come, come… There are shadows, again and again, still beyond the window. Something was watching them.
-Time is over, David.
He knew it: the shadow always knew the future like every soul knows the past. He slides the knife along his face, no more fear.
-You knew it before it happened.
The last thing he saw it was his own shape with veins and struggles…, he saw the past along the ghost… Look at your eyes, look deeply, time is over.
He left the wagon and his corpse, waiting for the next station, waiting for him. He could watch now all souls, splitting in two, in the bloody past.
Why? I was there, near the border.
June 10, 2007 Posted by martincid | Short Stories | Leave a comment
The Canvas
He was steadily looking at himself in front of a mirror of sorrow but he did not recognise his image, strange for him and for everybody in that crowded room of that famous museum. He kept looking at his reflection for a while; he was a thirty-years-old shadow in front of visitors, beside two dwarfs and the “master”. Someone was talking near them and me. I cannot remember if that happened in the past or in the future.
The infanta Margarita, Felipe IV’s daughter, was in front of us; her heavy blond hair smelt strongly, I could see her face…: you seem unfriendly, stupid tourist.
-Was someone talking?
Now, in the dusty atmosphere, the cleaner is sweeping Diego Velazquez’s room, in the Prado Museum, Madrid. Year: 2007.
Sometimes, the room is bursting with people, noises and sweats…, sometimes, the room is empty and nobody sees the canvas, I hate short sentences, busy foreigner.
-Who’s talking?
7 a.m. The museum is still closed; the cleaner has 20 minutes left to finish his task. He needs to arrive at the black mirror… twenty two steps plus ten. Someone is talking in front of the king’s reflection. A blond Menina dressed with a brilliant royal gown, a deformed dwarf with a dark suit or a horrible assistant without face?
The picture can tell stories about artists and frozen figures with eternal yearnings, about captive souls and shadows. Now and again, the oil paintings can sing legends and secrets. The colours have so many names because they can mix ad infinitum.
He has always been looking at the false mirror, inside the picture. The artist is painting us, painting the cleaner throughout the ages. Someone is talking about past times and ghosts, spectres and spectators…, someone talked leaden sounds, silently. The cleaner can listen to them, every morning, previously to open the museum old doors.
-Who are you?
Before dying, the cleaner had seen a bewitched figure emerging from the picture, as a shadow waiting for him and for you too. Afterwards, Diego Velazquez’s room was quiet and I went out looking for my own ghosts… Twenty two steps plus ten
Again, someone is talking. Who?
June 4, 2007 Posted by martincid | Short Stories | Leave a comment
About: Martín Cid
My name is Martin Cid, I am a writer.
“Portraits from Another Europe” is my new literary blog. I will offer rare pictures from life, from Spain.
Mi nombre es Martín Cid, soy escritor.
“Retratos desde la otra Europa” es mi nuevo blog literario. Mi web es http://www.martincid.com
Un Siglo de Cenizas de Martín Cid
Los 7 Pecados de Eminescu de Martín Cid
Ariza, novela de Martín Cid e Isabel del Río
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Mentiras del tabaco
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- Dos fumadores: Martín Cid y Arturo Pérez Reverte.
- Lauren Bacall y el mito de fumar
- El Ché Guevara también fumaba.
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- Elogio del Tabaco de Juan Manuel Martínez Valdueza
- «Yo fumo, Yo acuso» por el escritor Martín Cid, fumador
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Amigos de Ariza
- New Orleans and Nelson Mandela. Treme TV series
- The Truth and Nothing But
- Likes and dislikes of NBA players. Yao Ming, LeBron James, Michael Jordan….
- The End of the World on Yareah Magazine
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- Cities of Love. Pocahontas or Juliet cities
- Celebrities and Christmas on Yareah Magazine
- Top sentences about New York City. Groucho Marx, Hillary Clinton, Lady Gaga…
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Fotos
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- Andábata, última novela de Olga Bernad
- Artículo de Arte de Mario Rodríguez Guerras en Yareah magazine
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El Rincón de Pericles
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Papyrus
- A last papyrus.
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- Video sobre mujeres artistas de la Edad Media, de Isabel del Río
- Video I- Las Chicas del Oleo, pintoras y escultoras anteriores a 1789, de Isabel del Río
- Video II- Las Chicas del Oleo, dedicado a Sofonisba Anguissola- por Isabel del Río
- Heros and Superheros on Yareah magazine/January 2010
- Ariza by Martín Cid and Isabel del Río
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Las Chicas del Oleo
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