A BETTER MAN

When they arrived they seemed a normal couple.
She was pregnant.
Then, for nothing, she started beating her up.
She lied still: he left. He thought she was dead this time.
It took her more than one hour to stand up again. Slowly, with faltering steps she walked away praying:
- Dear Lord, please, help me to make my baby a better man than his father is.

(The Olive Tree Tales)

ART

In Summer, she comes here to work on her needleworks.
It is nearly eighty years now.
None believed important to learn her art. It will be gone with her.
What they don´t know is that they will need hundreds of years to reinvent it.

(The Olive Three Tales)