Reasons behind the story

The first flash fiction I wrote was about a prostitute who was waiting for the rain to stop so she could go to work. While waiting, she worried of Marcelino’s fish traps, the man she was in loved with. But later she realized that maybe when she is worried sick, Marcelino is comfortably sleeping with his wife, and so she went off to work, even if the rain still didn’t cease, and just wondered who her Marcelino would be for that night.

I wrote the story because.. uhm.. seriously I don’t know. I like the idea of two people in the beach, which in the story can be found when the prostitute reminisced the time Marcelino gave her 2 fresh tunas from his catch without asking for anything in return. I chose a prostitute character because I like to see them really loving someone and respecting that the person they love have a wife and not doing anything to seduce the person which is what the usual picture of a prostitute does.

However, I think there was a mistake on the end of the story where she wondered who her Marcelino would be for that night since it suggests that she was actually fantasizing of him– which is almost the same as seducing him..or so I think.

 Who am I in the story? Uhmm.. that’s scary since there are only two characters in the story aside from Marcelino’s wife and that will leave me with the prostitute. Maybe I don’t have the same characteristics with my characters (unless, I’ll be psychoanalysed only to find out that I do..yikes.), but the one I could sympathize with is the prostitute of course.