Plants Don't Drink Coffee by Unai Elorriaga

Author:Unai Elorriaga
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781935744139
Publisher: Steerforth Press

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Today Dolfo, Ismael and I got together. But we didn’t play soccer. We didn’t play soccer today because we were in the abandoned house yesterday. The house’s name is Linduena. And it’s abandoned because a man went to the Americas and then he came back and built the house in the middle of town, and it’s got seven trees, five really big ones and two normal ones, and then he left again and I don’t know for sure but I think he lives in America or Paris or Caracas now, and the house is abandoned and doesn’t belong to anybody. Uncle Simon told me that.

That’s why we often go in, and it’s got a stone staircase outside and wooden ones inside. And you have to be careful on the wooden ones, because they break sometimes. Dolfo says the staircases are rotten. Dolfo often says things are rotten, especially fruits and especially lettuce. Dolfo’s mom sells fruit. Walnuts also. And when one of us bangs a knee and it turns black Dolfo says the leg is rotten.

It looks like no one lives in abandoned houses. This isn’t true. I’ll tell you who lives in abandoned houses: cats and spirits. More cats than spirits. Spirits are like people, only they don’t work and they don’t shower, and they’re made of rubber, like gummy bears. And they are more intelligent than people, because they’re dead, and stronger than people, because they’re made of rubber, like gummy bears. And I think some of them fly, and others walk. Most of them are dead, like Jesus, but they continue doing things, and more than anything they go for walks. And I think spirits and the Holy Spirit are not the same thing. They have a similar name, but they’re not the same thing. I’ve never seen them. Or the Holy Spirit.

And we were in that house yesterday, Dolfo, Ismael and I, and that’s why we didn’t play soccer today. What we do in the abandoned house is, we make up games. And the games are always about running everywhere in the house and around the trees. But you have to run carefully in abandoned houses, because everything is broken or half-broken, and we can fall and hurt ourselves badly. And we run very carefully. But only at the beginning. Afterwards we forget we should be running carefully and we run like crazy. That’s why Ismael’s got three nail holes in his head.

Ismael hid in a wardrobe and when he lifted his head he hit something and hurt himself. And when he opened the wardrobe door we saw there were three big nails in the wardrobe, towards the top. And the points of the nails were pointing downward, and that’s how Ismael hurt his head. Because at the beginning we always play carefully, but afterwards we don’t. Because we forget.

Ismael said his head didn’t hurt too much, at the beginning it did, but later it didn’t, but we left the house anyway, because we were a bit bored, because we had spent the whole afternoon in it.

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