Short stories for quarantine

Franco Mendoza Photo

@francomendozaphoto.com · 18 Jun 2021

Short stories for quarantine

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I often check the trash and find objects that smile at me..wow you found me!... and I think I can give you a decent goodbye, a last turn to life, and let them be
remembered Not as garbage, if not as achievements.

So I clean them up in a privileged place in my house and then take your soul to keep them in my heart.

The green-eyed little pig that smashed into pieces came out in a truck so as not to come back.I cried it, the cigar boxes where I keep the leaves of strange shapes let them go with a lump in my throat. the bracelets I wear on sunny days, opened and flew as well.. sad when I burn the letters of those I loved,... ashes that would go to Heaven like letters to the Child God in December.

It was hard to get rid of all this and many more things.

Every time I want to carry less, the weight of the heart gets big and I need to discover a thousand more objects... and so I found the formula for them to be eternal, in the photos that one day someone will break because he will have to carry the weight of his heart too, but they will be presented enough to return to Life, in a fashion, in a color in a form.

Hence comes the idea of what “I don't steal souls in my photographs, I leave mine”.

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