PARANOIA. micro. © Carlos de la Parra. versión ESPAÑOL----ENGLISH version.

No era paranoide pero colocó un maniquí con su apariencia mirando por la ventana de su oficina, y al regresar una mañana lo encontró balaceado.
No era paranoide más les cambiaba la bebida cuando le servían algo y vió a tres caer envenenados.
No se sentía perseguido, pero por si acaso siempre volteaba a mirar atrás, y se había salvado de varias.
Ahora que se había refugiado metiéndose de cartujo, no hablaba con nadie, ni el único día del año en que se permitía, y no es que fuese paranoide, sino que ya no se puede confiar en nadie hoy día.

ENGLISH VERSION.

He was not paranoid at all ,but he did place a dummy with his likeness, sitting by his office window, and one morning he found it riddled with bullets.
Although he was not paranoid, he was careful to switch any drink they served him and had lived to see three persons drop down poisoned.
He did not feel followed by anyone, but just in case, he kept looking behind , and this got him out of harm's way on two occasions.
By now he had sought shelter at a Cartussian monastery. And even on the only day of the year they were allowed to speak, he would keep to himself. It was not paranoia, just the simple fact that you can't trust anyone nowadays.

INVITADO--GUEST.© Carlos de la Parra. ( Spanish and English versions) Clic down here and in our twin site to read more.

Era una casita perfecta junto a un lago a donde Valentín fué a pasar una semana como invitado y ahí la familia de su novia le atendió con esmero y pudo darse cuenta que en todas las comidas se volvía a relatar una serie de sucesos del pasado, todos de naturaleza cotidiana y carentes de cualquier extremo o sorpresa, y que además atraía la atención intensa de los presentes como si ésta fuese la primera vez que lo escuchasen. Algo así como un paso de revista familiar, tan aburrido todo ésto que salió huyendo una tarde sin despedirse y con la clara conciencia de que las personas que pertenecen a grupos aburridos no se aburren entre sí, les basta con aburrir a los demás.
Ésto explica porqué todos los que leemos ésto hemos sufrido algo parecido.

ENGLISH VERSION.

It was the perfect little house by the lake owned by his fianceés family and he would spend a week as a guest .
At mealtimes he became aware that all her relatives tended to repeat the same memories and that every instance recalled was devoid of any surprise or interesting fact. As if they were all taking part in an ancestry roll call, but curiously everyone's attention remained focused and attentive as if this were the first time they heard about it.
He became so bored with these people that on the third day he fled without saying goodbye or expressing any gratitude for the hospitality.
It was now cristal clear to him that boring groups do not bore each other, they just do that to the rest of us.
This may now explain to everyone reading this had to suffer through something similar.

CONTRADICTION--© Carlos de la Parra. (English and spanish versions, Clic down to read) .

El profesor dijo en el salón:---No quiero caer en lo Freudiano y decir que todo tiene un trasfondo sexual, pero el caso que vamos a tratar claramente lo tiene.---
Y justo por establecer éste preámbulo cayó en lo Freudiano.

The professor was addressing the students and said: ---I don't want to be Freudian about this issue and state that everything has a sexual background, but what we are about to discuss definetely does have such a sexual implication.---
Inadvertently he had just gotten Freudian about it.