The Short Sweet Dream Of Eduardo Gutierrez - Plot & Excerpts
How were they going to stay in San Matías? They were not. They believed in the Job. The young of San Matías lived their lives with pictures of American money in their heads.One night in San Matías, Eduardo came to the corner by the store. He had his black baseball cap pulled down, but the corners of his eyes had the look of a hungry bird as they seized on Silvia’s face. Inside the store, she looked out.He walked on with his face showing nothing. For his next visit, he came into the store with three or four of his cousins. He went right to one of the video game machines as if she were not in the place, and began manipulating the knobs.It gave Silvia a chance to inspect his broad back, which came down in a V, and the arms shaped by carrying all those stacks of bricks for so long now.He finished playing, and as he left with his cousins, she remembers, he glanced at her, his eyes licking like a camera shutter, maybe committing the sight to memory forever.And then immediately his expression turned blank with shyness.The following night, Eduardo’s cousin Rafael came into the store.“Eduardo thinks you are pretty,”
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