576 - Dried but dead.

When the storm broke, he ran to under a big tree to keep himself dry, regardless of the awful memory of his ugly school teacher with curly blond hair, yellow teeth and big red glasses which made her eyes look bigger, who said in a alarming tone of voice "Trees are the lighting rods of nature, when it rains, never, I repeat, NEVER, save yourself from the rain under a tree."

And the last thing he thought before the lighting struck him and the tree under which he was standing was "Yeah, my school teacher was way too crazy."

The end.

Published on August 8th, 2012.

575 - Winning is what matters.

"For two points! I lost for two points!"

"Two? I thought you had scored 65 and your opponent 66."

"So..."

"Then, why do you say you lost for two points? You lost only for one point."

"No! I lost for two points, if I had scored one point more it could have been a tie, and I didn't want to tie, no, I wanted to WIN."

The end.

Published on August 7th, 2012.

574 - The promise: the day he didn't promise it.

Everyday before her husband left to the police station, she would make him promise her that he would return home alive; and regardless any kind of danger he faced, he would always return to his home, not always sound, but safe.

One morning, after a previous night of screams and fights that are so common in marital life, she didn't say good bye to her husband before he left to the police station, therefore she didn't make him promise her his safe return.

That day, around noon, the phone rang, and when she heard it, her soul fell to her feet, the phone had never rang so early in the day; and soon all her rage and resentment she had against her husband for the previous night disappeared and gave way to a feeling of guiltiness and desperation.

"Why I didn't make him promise me he would return home alive this morning as I always do?"  She asked herself as the phone continued ringing "Why?.."

The end.

Published on August 6th, 2012.

573 - A gifted gift.

Just three days before the Saint Valentine Gift Exchange of his office, he didn't have a clue of what to buy to his secret friend, until he remembered the gift he had received the previous Christmas and that had never wore, once again, the gift will be gifted.

The end.

Published on August 3rd, 2012.  

572 - TECHNOLOGICAL EMERGENCY!!!!!

Warning!!!!
Your device only has 10% left of battery.

The end.

Published on August 2nd, 2012.

571 - The pen of love.

When they became boyfriend and girlfriend, he gave her a pen of red ink which represented the love he felt for her. With that pen they wrote a lot of stories about the dates they had had, the kisses they had shared, the fights and the make ups they had had, the gifts they had given each other...

They wrote so many stories with that pen, that one day, the pen ran out of ink, and they only thing left from all the love they had for each other was the stories they had written with that pen of red ink; but when re-read, the stories looked like as if they were written with a regular black ink.

The end.

Published on August 1st, 2012. 

570 - The fall of the King.

When the king, who was hated by everyone because he was merciless and kept the taxes so high that no one could outcome poverty, was taking his walk around his kingdom, all the people looked at him with hate from the doors of their houses; but when the King tripped with a rock on the path and fell to the ground, all the people of the town got excited and hurried to help him stand up and clean his delicate clothes.

The end.

Published on July 31st, 2012. 

569 - The murdering hand.

At the jury:

"I'm innocent, I tried to protect her; but my hand, my hand was stronger than me!"

The murderer was trying to defend himself pledging that his hand had life itself, and that it was his hand that had killed all those persons.

The judge and the jury were confused, the man sounded so innocent; but the proofs said otherwise, therefore he was sent to the guillotine to pay for the crimes he had commit.

The man accepted his fate; but he asked that before they cut off his head, they cut his right hand first; and the judge feeling pity for him accepted his petition.

The day of the execution, just like they had promised, they were going to cut the right hand of the man before beheaded him; therefore he put his arm where his neck should have gone in the guillotine and when the scythe fell over his wrist, he screamed in pain; but then...

"I TOLD YOU! I TOLD YOU! DIDN'T I??? IT WASN'T ME!! IT WAS MY HAND!!! NOW YOU BELIEVE ME?" the man screamed,  excited, when his hand had jumped out of the basket where it had fall and had started to strangle everyone around.

The end.

Published on July 30th, 2012.

568 - Tied!

The twins had spent their whole life challenging each other to see whom of them was the best, the fastest, the strongest... but the outcome of those challenges was always the same: tied, always tied, even way before the were born, when they both reached the ovule of their mother at the same time.

The end.

Published on July 29th, 2012.

567 - The lost kid and the feckless mother.

"Dear costumers " said the speaker of the supermarket "we have found a lost kid."
"Oh dear Lord! Mothers nowadays are so feckless" said Tommy's mother "How could a mother lose her child? That happens because they don't pay attention to their children."
"The kid's name is Tommy" said the speaker " And we would appreciate if his mother or father would come to pick him up at the reception. Thank you."
"What? Tommy?! My Tommy?! If I had him by my side just a few seconds ago!!"

And in fact, when she looked around to find her Tommy, she couldn't find him anywhere, therefore she ran to the reception to pick him up there.

The end.

Published on July 28th, 2012.