Latin American Flash Fiction Anthology: Cuéntame un Blues
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BLUES FOR ALL MY DREAMS
Héctor Juárez Lorencilla.
I sink into the armchair, close my eyes, and let the Best of Blues mp3 wash over me. Ella Fitzgerald, Bessie Smith, Sonny Boy Williamson, Muddy Waters, Memphis Slim…
Each song paints a new scene. I see myself with a cigar and a whiskey glass in some noir-toned nightclub. Then, another track transports me —I’m fighting mobsters with a shotgun beside Elliot Ness. Marvelous! My favorite tune plays, and suddenly I’m in a Parisian battle, dragging a wounded soldier alongside Clint Eastwood…
Then my boss barks at me to guard the warehouse and lock the main gate.
I close my eyes again: now I’m distilling moonshine to survive the night.
This story is part of the book:
Latin American Flash Fiction: Cuéntame un Blues
from the Blue Cat Collection (fiction series) by La Tinta del Silencio Press.
Edited and designed by Anaïs Blues and Luis Flores Ramos, who also wrote the foreword.
Featuring flash fictions by Mexican writers like Ulises Paniagua, Mariano F. Whatle, and José Luis Zárate.
