sábado, 13 de noviembre de 2010

one-way ticket

In " One-way ticket", there are three short stories.These stories happpen in a train.
The first story is THE GIRL WITH GREEN EYES.
There were seven people in the carriage of a train: a young man with his wife, they were going on holiday, a man with a brown hat, a tall dark man and a woman with two little children,boy and girl.
The young man and the man with the brown hat were talking all the time. The tall dark man was reading, the young woman with green eyes was thinking about the tall dark man and she wonder about him.The two children were playing, talking or eating, they were very bored.
At Plymouth station, the dark man left the train and two women and a man came into the carriage. They had a bag of apples. The bag broke and the apples went all over the carriage.
When the people sat down the young man asks: Where is my wife? The little girl said that she got off the train whit the dark man.The young man couldn´t understand and the man with the brown hat said that he should forget his wife.
The second story is SOUTH FOR THE WINTER.
A young man called Tom tell his story. He never stays in a country for a long time. He likes to move on and when he needs money, he gets a job. In Europe, he can pick fruit most of the year. He likes to go to the south for the winter.
He was in Venice for October. He left Venice and went to Trieste.
At the begining of the story, he was on a train to Trieste at 9:00. There wasn´t many people at first.
At Zagreb, he saw two girlas but they didn´t come into the carriage. Then, he went to sleep. When he opened his eyes, the two girls were in the carriage. One of them knew all about him.
they talked for a long time and they decides to meet in Bulgaria the next Saturday.
The boy and one of the girlas decided to go to the restaurant and the other girl stayed in the carriage.
At Bela Polanka the girls got off the train.
A lot of policemen came into the train and they came into the carriage where Tom was. They told him to come with them with his bag.
At the police station there were a lot of young people, they opened their bags and they returned to the train.
Tom opened his bag and there was a lot of money in it. Tom said that it wasn´t his bag but the police didn´t believe it. Now, he´s in prison.
The third story is Mr HARRIS AND THE NIGHT TRAIN.
Mr Harris likes trains. At the begining of the story he was on a train for Helsinki to Oulu in Finland alone in a carriage. He was going on holiday. It was midnight.
A man and a woman came into the carriage, they shouted. The girl wanted the diamond necklace, it was a present from her mother-in-law and the boy didn´t want to give it to her.
The girl took a knife and killed the boy, they were brother and sister. Mr Harris run to the corridor tolook for help and when he returned to the carriagethere was no man, no woman and no blood. Mr Harris was very surprised. the guard asked to him if the name of the girl was Elena. The guard said that Elena died about 80 years ago, after she killed her brother, she jumped off the train and died at once. It was near there.
The guard sais that they were ghosts, they often came on the night train that time in September.
Mr Harris went with the guard and he told the story to him. When Mr Harris returned from his trip, he went by bus.