{"id":1850,"date":"2007-07-26T14:42:18","date_gmt":"2007-07-26T14:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/words-in-the-snow-a-filandon\/"},"modified":"2007-07-26T22:49:56","modified_gmt":"2007-07-26T22:49:56","slug":"words-in-the-snow-a-filandon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/words-in-the-snow-a-filandon\/","title":{"rendered":"Words in the Snow [A Filand\u00c3\u00b3n]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chance<\/strong><br \/>\nby Juan Pedro Aparicio<\/p>\n<p>Can chance make a monkey write <em>Don Quixote<\/em> by tapping away at a keyboard for millions of years? Ornithologist Artemio Alc\u00c3\u00a1ntara was musing on the topic from his hide in Donana, while observing a gaggle of geese crusing north across the sky clearly outlining five letters that spelt the word GOING. Six months later the geese returning to Donana wrote the word COMING in the sky. Could it be that the same monkey was tapping out the words of <em>Hamlet<\/em> as well?<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Dream<\/strong><br \/>\nby Luis Mateo D\u00c3\u00adez<\/p>\n<p>I dreamt a child was eating me. I woke up in distress.<br \/>\nMy mother was licking me. I went on trembling for a little while longer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fingerprints<\/strong><br \/>\nby Jos \u00e9 Mar\u00c3\u00ada Merino<\/p>\n<p>That overturned waste bin. The graffiti on the wall, like an indecipherable curse. Several cigarette butts in the earth around the tree. A folded newspaper on a park bench. A small ball floating on the pond. The stain of lip gloss on the rim of a cup. A child&#8217;s sock hanging from the fence. A bloodied glob of spit. The scar of tyre-marks on the tarmac. Dampness on the pillow. This story.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ABOUT THE AUTHORS<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Words in the Snow<\/em> collects the tales that are the basis for Aparicio, D\u00c3\u00adez and Merino&#8217;s <em>Filand\u00c3\u00b3n<\/em>: that is very short stories of a genre reborn midway through the twentieth century and known variously as the micro-story, mini-fiction or mini-tale currently booming in Latin America and Spain. <em>Words in the Snow<\/em> is published by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbooks.com\/\">ChristieBooks.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"wordsinthesnow.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/wordsinthesnow.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"wordsinthesnow.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/wordsinthesnow.thumbnail.jpg\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" align=\"right\" \/>That overturned waste bin. The graffiti on the wall, like an indecipherable curse. Several cigarette butts in the earth around the tree. A folded newspaper on a park bench. A small ball floating on the pond. The stain of lip gloss on the rim of a cup. A child&#8217;s sock hanging from the fence. A bloodied glob of spit. The scar of tyre-marks on the tarmac. Dampness on the pillow. This story. <\/p>\n<p>By <b>Juan Pedro Aparicio, Luis Mateo D\u00c3\u00adez, Jos \u00e9 Mar\u00c3\u00ada Merino<\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flash-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}