Irish rose

This is a story about an 18 year old lady called Mary Flynn, she always wanted to be an actress but what she wanted the most it was showing the world she was more than just a pretty face. She starred in a film called Irish Rose with a really famous actor, Declan Knight, she was such a good actress that people didn’t even speak about Declan. It was 31 July 2004 in the party of her film. She was the center of attention.

She loved the fact that everybody was telling her how good she was, but then she just wanted to get away from photographers and reporters for a while.  She decided to go outside to a big park that was in front     of the hotel were the film party was taking place. When she got out she realized she was not the only one there, there was also this handsome man who was looking at her. She saw some lights in the middle of the park so she started walking towards the lights. When she got there she saw many dancers in there, she didn’t know them but she wanted to dance though.

All of a sudden the handsome man that she had seen outside the hotel offered her some fruits; she was hungry so she took one. The fruit looked so green and tasty, a large green apple. It was the best apple she had ever tasted.

When she finished eating the handsome man was still next to her, he offered her his hand and she took it. They started dancing and she was having a wonderful time with him that she even forgot what time it was. She realized she had to go back to the party so she just dropped the man’s hand and he understood.

When she got back to the hotel people looked at her, well she was famous. But the people in the room were different people all dressed with strange clothes… they were other people! She started looking for someone she could know but instead she got to a mirror and when she saw herself in it she was an old woman. She saw the date under the hotel clock and started crying. It was 31 July 2104.  

Banshee

This story talks about an Irish man named Conor who worked on a company that produced computer games. “It’s called Space Journey and it’s going to be really big!” he said so happy talking about his new game.

One day Conor showed his game to his wife Holly, he had explained her that the game was about a family who got lost in space and wanted to home. The game had 5 “characters” that were the members of the family. They were checking out the game and all of a sudden a lady that was washing her hands full of blood appeared on the corner of the screen.  She asked Conor if she was the character number 6 but he said they were only 5 characters and maybe one of his co-workers had played him a joke. They turned on the sound of the game and they only heard the lady full of blood screaming, they got really scared so they went to sleep.

When they were about to sleep they decided to open the curtains so they could watch the moon thru their big window. All of a sudden the lady washing her hands in blood appeared again and she was screaming like in the game. Holly got really scared and screamed too. The phone rang, Conor went to pick up and someone told him that his stepdad had just died.

Some moths passed and one day talking to Bridie, Conor’s mom, they told her about the lady of the blood and she told them that the lady they had seen it was the banshee, a lady who comes towards Irish people to bring them the death news. So if you see her is because someone of your family it’s going to die.

We will wait, too.

This is a small text that talks about characters. What they are, who they are, how they are and how they become alive.

Writers make them maybe they take a lot of time deciding how they are going to be, they may be females or males, young or old, clever or stupid, good or bad, that’s just the writer decision and creativity.

Even though some writers create characters but don’t use them in their stories characters are already alive. They stay in the writers head waiting until they decide to write something about them. They become a ghost of an unborn character.

When writers get an idea to write they call it inspiration, sometimes the ghosts of unborn characters just want to live in one of the stories the writers are going to write with their inspiration. And they tell to the writers;

            ¡So, writers, let us live!          

Tales of the supernatural.

Ok so last year I had this assignment about reading a book called Tales of the supernatural that was written by Frank Brennan.
The book reunites many stories, with different characters and types of stories but they were all really interesting and mysterious.
In fact, there was a show at Warner Channel called "Tales of the supernatural", I really enjoyed reading this book because it was not boring at all.
I'll tell you a little bit about 3 stories in a while..