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RE: "Left Behind" - A Short Story
Hi @dranuvar, I like how you end the story :) At first i thought was an insomnia guy who restless during midnight. Whatever he did also seems not right, not want he wanted. But the more I read, it seems something behind the story and it started get creepy. The here comes the truth when I read the last para. What a nice short story writing. What gave you an inspiration to start this storyline?
3 things inspired me to write this:
-The philosophy of "following my own rythm" is something I have, but I've found it being savagely beaten by how rushed real life is, as such, I wanted to write something that showed the contrast between an inner/personal world and the external one
-The argentinian writer Julio Cortázar has some of my favorites short stories, and he has a tendency to mix seemingly normal slice of life situations with a fantasy or surreal twist, and I wanted to try some of that. Don't know where to find translations of his works (I read them in spanish) but check "Autopista del Sur" and "La Casa Tomada".
-An old episode of one of my favorite childhood cartoons has a premise of a LOOOOONG time passing while the characters tried to stay awake. I mixed that with my personal philosophy and the normal/surreal dinamic of Cortazar's work.
@dranuvar didn't know that so many thing inspired you to write this story. And you made it. Each story of yours, you also inspired by something to start the story?