The Pest

The pest is a really short story by Fernardo Sorrentino. Who's supposed to be humorous. It's about a guy's birthday, and he decided to celebrate it by pranking a stranger, so he went to talk with the first person he saw,  who was a well dressed 60 years old man with a briefcase in his right hand, who certainly seemed to be a lawyer. So the narrator began by asking him about Plaza De Mayo so the men gently answers his question by pointing at the place, but the birthday guy decided to annoy him by assuming he just asked another man with "an intelligent face" who said a dissimilar avenue. So the man took it as an insult and decided to walk away, but the man still wanting to irritate him re asked him once again but this time for the place of Plaza San Mart'in pretending that was his demand from the begin and then began calling him in an indirect way "idiot" that's when the lawyer got really mad and walked away.

So what do you think of it? i personally think it's not the best story ever written but it's not the worst. Right? 

Death by Scrabble

Short story written by: Charlie Fish
Type: crime

     Death by scrabble; a very interesting story containing a unexpected twist, It all start by a man and his wife playing scrabble, every one by his turn and in every turn the narrator (the men)  mention how much he hates his wife, wishing he could get rid of her as fast as possible.

     The story is all about the two of them playing one by one a word, realizing that every word they enter becomes reality, for instant, once he entered the word EXPLODES the air conditioning explodes, and after others similar situations, the men realize  it all happens and words become reality, that's when he decided to test it by entering the word FLY, wishing that he could find himself flying in the middle of nowhere, but instead he abruptly found a fly on the game board, that's when he decided to chose a unambiguous word helping him to kill his wife. 

    After several turns the man spells QUACK, and suddenly the world start trembling and everything starts falling, that's when his wife spelled the word DEATH and there was her husband lying on the floor dead by a Bee stuck in his throat.

Moral in the story: Don't  ever wish something bad on someone because it will come around to you instead.