Bleeding Chicken Pox Dots

VII: "DROPS"

" My girlfriend says that someone U.S. has invented a pill that makes you not feel alone. I heard yesterday, in the capsule information Sixty seconds military station, and now you are sending an urgent letter to her sister to buy him a shipment and send it by mail. Sixty seconds in said on the East Coast is sold in all stores and in New York and has caused a furor. It comes in two forms: drops or spray. My girlfriend has asked drops, because you may not want to feel alone, but he does not want is to damage the ozone layer.

drops you throw in the ear and Twenty minutes you stop feeling alone. I do not act chemically on that area of \u200b\u200bthe brain, had explained over the radio, but my girlfriend had not understood. It is not that precisely is Madame Curie, my girlfriend and I would even say it's a bit silly. He spends his days sitting thinking that I will be unfaithful, I'm going to leave and stuff. But I love her, love her madly. When you return to the post office tells me now you can stop living with me. Because the drops, Taran-Taran, will arrive soon and will no longer be scary to be alone.

- Let me? - I say -. Why drops? How is that possible?

But if you love her, love her madly.

- Go, if you like - say - but I want you to know that neither those nasty ear drops or any other you will want to as I have loved you.

What is true is that the drops the ears are not going to be unfaithful. That's what she says, then leaves. As if I did I would be unfaithful.

has now hired a Florentin attic in every day waiting for the mailman. For my part, I have no connection with the mail, does not excite me, and I have no friends abroad to send me things. if present, would have long since gone to visit them. Would come to have a drink with them and have told my sorrows. The hug a lot and not be ashamed to mourn me in front of them and all that stuff. We could be together years and spend a lifetime. In the most natural, as has always been done, much better than a few drops. "

Etgar Keret," Drops "in r Missing Kissinger, Mexico, Sixth Floor, 2009. ISBN978-607-7781-00-4

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"Born in Tel Aviv in 1976, Etgar Keret is today the most popular writer among Israeli youth. Keret began writing in 1992 and since then he has published four books of short stories, a novel, three books comic and a children's book. His books have been best-sellers in Israel and have received international acclaim. (...) More than forty short films have been based on their stories. His stories have been adapted to the theater in Israel .

Since its arrival on the international literary scene, Etgar Keret has captivated readers all gender and age with its particular literary style. In stories of a few pages, Keret plasma extreme situations of daily life, which when viewed through the lens carefully, reveals not have anything everyday. His writing reflects the volatile, violent and uncertain reality of the Middle East, but not from the ethical or moral grandeur, but by fleeting glimpses of situations and characters involved in a chaos that transcends, in an attempt to keep head above water, finding value and meaning in the surrounding nonsense. "

Editorial Sixth Floor