Gabriela De Francisco
Stories (4/0)
Dull Revolution
It was the summer of 2050. Alexandria sat inside her kitchen slowly eating her tasteless oatmeal and washed it down with some black coffee. She put the dirty dishes in her dishwasher, and walked to her job in the sunglasses factory in Paris. It had originally been a sunglasses factory in the old days to block harmful UV rays, but in the last few years had morphed into something more sinister. The glasses they made now dulled color vision because seeing color was "dangerous." That's what people were told anyway, when they were forced to use them. "It's to keep the peace," said the Grays.
By Gabriela De Francisco3 years ago in Fiction
Unspoken Treasure
Ernest Hemingway was the love of my life. We met when I was a young woman in my twenties. He had just come back from one of the things he most loved to do in this world, go fishing on Pilar, his boat, accompanied by my father, one of his best buddies. I remember when I saw him for the very first time. He was a legend, larger than life. He was not like some of those writers who wrote books filled with suspense and adventure, but led lives of dull, boring normality. This man actually lived the stuff he wrote about. Despite being much older than I was, I felt a breathlessness and my heartbeat quickened when he gazed in my direction. He must have noticed the impression he had made on me, when he glanced away from my direction with a smile on his face.
By Gabriela De Francisco3 years ago in Humans
Baking Cookies for the Holidays
When my sister, Mariana and I were in elementary school, we loved to read. We often ordered books from the Scholastic Book Club in those days. We ordered all kinds of books from kids' mystery books, Beverly Cleary books, and fun how-to books. One of our favorites was The Cookie Book by Eva Moore. The book had twelve cookie recipes, one for every month. It featured snickerdoodles, tiny timmies, peanut butter cookies, chocolate chip brownies,Christmas cookies, and even three-color sugar cookies for the Fourth of July.
By Gabriela De Francisco3 years ago in Feast