The dinasaur 

That same evening, as we sat in Café La Luna, sharing a pizza and reading short stories by Monterroso - who had inspired me to try to write, for once, a hopefully cheerful and short story entitled "Faith and the Mountains" - Vivian also showed me this probably shortest mini-story in the world, also by Monterroso. This fantastic text made me laugh again, perhaps because I didn't understand it very well. Perhaps the beauty of it lay in the fact that I didn't have to understand the text completely. It was only when I tried to translate it that I realized how difficult it is to translate such texts, and what can happen and get lost in the process of translation and understanding. Vivi told me that this short text had inspired many a long analysis, including master's thesis.

I didn't feel like analyzing and decided to keep it simple:

The Dinosaur

[mini-story - full text].
Augusto Monterroso

When he awoke, the dinosaur was still there.

END

PS: Augusto Monterroso was Central American and lived in Guatemala in times of promising changes. He said about this short story that "its interpretations are as infinite as the universe itself".

Spanish original, thanks to Casa digital "CIUDAD SEVA" del escritor Luis López Nieves

El dinosaurio

[Minicuento - Texto completo.]
Augusto Monterroso

Cuando despertó, el dinosaurio todavía estaba allí.

FIN