Daybreak Christmas Eve her waters broke. An ambulance birth. Her joy brought tears. Christmas Day she is returned to find a festive cot inside her cell.
Yorgos Syrmas
Παραμονή ξημέρωμα έσπασαν τα νερά. Γέννησε στο ασθενοφόρο, πόση χαρά, την έπιασαν τα κλάματα. Ανήμερα τη γύρισαν στη Θήβα – βρήκε μια κούνια στολισμένη στο κελί της.
Twenty-six (Greek) words to tell a story, commissioned from Yorgos Syrmas by ελculture.gr to mark the holiday season in the run-up to (twenty-)twenty-six.
First published online on Christmas Eve in twenty-twenty-five.
Image by Cristina Gottardi, selected by ελc to accompany all eight commissioned flash fictions: a bold, expectant form set in a blanket-blankness broken only by a cot of sorts.
Translated (using twenty-six English words) for the love of it (and for the love of him).
see also
pricked ⋮ bloomed
seaweed ⋮ buttons
arkhæio
TWENTY-SIX FOR TWENTY-SIX
