Conservazione - Marcos Zocaro

Texto en español en Ráfagas y parpadeos: (35) "Preservación".

Traducido al italiano.

Dopo discutere sulla convenienza di fare contatto con la civiltà scoperta recentemente nel sistema planetario vicino, analizzando i pro e i contro di interagire con esseri così belligeranti, gli extraterrestri decidevano non mettersi in contatto con noi.

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"Preservación" apareció en NGC3660.

Happy ending - Marcos Zocaro

Texto en español en Breves no tan breves: "Final feliz".

Traducido al inglés.

Two years and three months was what took me finish my first novel, my small great work of art. But for Garmendia was enough a month to steal it.
Garmendia, Javier Garmendia, was one of my best friends and, like me, he loved Literature and dreamed to become a best seller. But, unfortunately, he had never an original idea. That is what I should have taken into account before giving him the rough draft of my story: a month later, instead of receiving his opinion about the book, I received a neat letter where he invited me to the launching of his novel: "Vertigo"… The swine man had not even bothered to change the title.
The book launch would carry out that afternoon in Dardo Rocha Building, and one of the speakers would be, nothing more, nothing less than Thomas M. Rocazo, the writer whom Garmendia and I admired so much. My indignation could not be greater.
Taking advantage of a distraction of my father, I could steal his police gun from his bedside table. I hid it among my clothes and I went to Dardo Rocha Building. At first, my plan (absurd, if you want) was no more than hide me among the crowd and, in the middle of the presentation, rise, aim the weapon at who once had been my friend and force him to confess his plagiarism. However, once in place, everything changed.
To calm my nerves, while I was waiting for Garmendia to appear, I decided to take one of the copies of "Vertigo" that lay on a stand. When I had it in my hands, my anger rose: the book cover was as I had imagined it. At that time, more than ever, I feel like the cold of the Glock penetrated my waist. Then, out of curiosity, I began to read the book until I came at the end and I discovered something that drove me more crazy, something that altered my plan drastically.
As soon as Garmendia was introduced to the crowd and he sat down behind a makeshift desk, I took the pistol, aimed at him and, after contemplating for a few moments his face full of terror, I discharged the magazine in the middle of his chest… The little shit had converted the end of my novel into a “bed of roses”. I couldn´t believe it. What Garmendia had done didn´t have forgiveness of God.

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Este cuento ha aparecido en la edición impresa del Diario HOY de La Plata, el 17 de febrero de 2008, en la sección policial Trama Urbana.

Interplanetary parasites - Marcos Zocaro

Texto en español en Químicamente impuro: "Parásitos interplanetarios".

Traducido al inglés.

With the two stars hiding below the volcanic horizon, the last of the flying insects initiates a dying and spiral descent to earth, stamping the end of all kind of life on the planet.Given this, the commander of the mothership congratulates the rest of the spaceships, thousands and thousands that populate the skies of this world on fire, by the success of the mission: all natural and energetic resources have been already consumed. Next, without losing more time, the leader of interplanetary parasites sets a new direction and a new target: the victim will be now Betelyun, a giant planet that orbit around the star Betelgeuse, a planet whose civilization may never be able to defended itself against the attack of the Human Empire.

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Este cuento apareció en la revista MiNatura.