Dario Garcia

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2019

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“Airport Cat Saves Life” by Dario Garcia

Submitted to Contest #30

I’m a baggage handler. It’s not the high-flying job people think it is. I wake up, put on my grey coveralls and drive twenty miles to work. I ride a baggage truck to the stands and back. Load the conveyor belt. Unload. Drive twenty miles home, open a beer, fall asleep after three episodes of The Simpsons.***I wake up in my coveralls, drive twenty miles to work. I wait all day in the loading hall, a featureless, empty hangar, with a conveyor belt, two plastic chairs and a black-and-white monitor for entertainment. I will the conveyor belt to ...

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“The endearing enthusiasm of the inexperienced” by Dario Garcia

Submitted to Contest #11

Dark clouds loom ominously over a hill, a cottage, and a chestnut mare. A masked man treads stealthily across the roof, arms outstretched. He has a rose between his teeth (but if he were to speak, he would sound Mediterranean). He somersaults, lands noiselessly onto a balcony and smiles. He lives in a remarkable world of sword fights, adventure, and intrigue, and he has finally reached his destination. This is a familiar story, but it is not our story. Our story is set in Wootton Bassett, population 4,401, ten-mile stretch of drive-through...

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Spaniard living in the jungle, writing and painting about the humorous absurdities that make us human www.storieswithoutboundaries.com