The Uncomfortable Dead
The Uncomfortable Dead
“A woman who had disappeared. This was nothing new to him. Not that he kept falling in love with ghosts, but that women with whom he had been in love, on and off, for more or less long periods of time, would suddenly disappear.
According to the mysterious agenda of the girl with the ponytail, who wasn’t a girl anymore and who hadn’t worn a ponytail in the longest time and instead had a lock covering one eye (Veronica Lake—style), a few marvelous and elegant white hairs, a doctoral degree in philosophy, and the ability to kick back tequila caballitos… well, according to her own weird perspective, she was nowhere. And she hadn’t even taken the trouble to say goodbye, which she never did anyway. She had simply vanished. She failed to turn up for work, the university was on break, she didn’t answer her telephone, even the answering machine had gone deaf and dumb, and the door to her apartment was becoming a wasteland of junk mail, electricity bills, bank statements, and issues of La Jornad...a and Proceso.MoreLess
According to the mysterious agenda of the girl with the ponytail, who wasn’t a girl anymore and who hadn’t worn a ponytail in the longest time and instead had a lock covering one eye (Veronica Lake—style), a few marvelous and elegant white hairs, a doctoral degree in philosophy, and the ability to kick back tequila caballitos… well, according to her own weird perspective, she was nowhere. And she hadn’t even taken the trouble to say goodbye, which she never did anyway. She had simply vanished. She failed to turn up for work, the university was on break, she didn’t answer her telephone, even the answering machine had gone deaf and dumb, and the door to her apartment was becoming a wasteland of junk mail, electricity bills, bank statements, and issues of La Jornad...a and Proceso.MoreLess
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