The Island/ La isla/ Short story/ by @gilliatt

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The Island

That night we lost all hope, we were on that desert island, without food, without fire and almost without clothes, watching how the pieces of the raft that we had sent days before with that young and muscular sailor, who volunteered, were returned. to that island to try to go out to sea and get help, he did not succeed.

And it is that when we collided with those birds in the plane that took us to that devil ride, we had to swim for our lives in that feast that the sharks made with the pilots and thanks to that fat man, who for being so obese, all the Sharks went face to face against it and that allowed us to swim to those coconut trees that we saw in the distance.

We had survived six of the passengers on that tourist flight, and despite our proximity to the continent and civilization, three weeks had already passed since we crashed.

What amused me the most was the seminarian who was with us on the plane, who one day woke up praying to all the saints he met at the seminary, and the next day he cursed like a drunken sailor, that it was delightful.

Among the passengers and apart from the seminarian were two Greek tourists who, apart from not speaking the language, were extremely rough with sign language, I knew that if we got to cannibalism, these were very good candidates.

A dazzling blonde who every day was less clothes, and who was very scary when she put those huge silicone tits in the sun, she did not know if they were going to melt or explode, what she did know is that she was already moving. the second layer of skin and it kept looking worse.

So far we had survived on coconut water and coconut pulp, but I knew that without protein, we wouldn't last much longer.

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We also discovered that the silicon did not float on its own, but nevertheless, the seminarian told me that morning that if things continued like this, he was going to try to "eat" the blonde, we were already desperate.

But let's start by getting to know each other one by one, to get into a situation: We had survived six of the eleven crew members of that tourist flight, and I still don't find the sense to fly over the blue sea, where there was nothing but water and no one to explain to us where the hell we were, which would have given us some chance to guide us out of there.

The two Greek tourists, apparently they were brothers, although when we tried to ask them through signs, they said they came from Greece and they quoted a poem that seemed to me from the Iliad, although it would have been more appropriate for them to quote the Odyssey.

The blonde, although she looked like a porn actress, you could see that she was from a very refined family, and I knew it because she showed class, when she took the pulp out of the coconuts with a teaspoon, God knows, where she got it from, they came out his delicate methods of eating.

The seminarian, who came from Spain, who was on a religious mission in the town where we stayed, and took advantage of the plane to walk, surely he will never forget this walk.

And I, who had just got divorced, and after my ex lost the divorce claim, and I recovered a good part of my assets, I went for a walk in the Caribbean and ended up on that shitty island.

The first day I woke up remembering some methods to make fire and I spent the whole morning turning a rod on a board, to see if it could be achieved by rubbing it, but it was useless, the only thing I got was to listen to the curses in perfect Spanish, which I was releasing the seminarian, while the blonde told him to calm down, that it didn't help.

While I was doing this the Greeks went swimming with a harpoon that they made from wire and the garters from their underwear.

In the afternoon they appeared with two dead octopuses, while my hands were bleeding from so much rubbing that damn device, in vain.

The Greeks tried to eat the raw octopuses and they had been defecating all over the island for 24 hours, while chewing the leaves that the blonde had given them, to stop that intestinal spill.

That day and after the Greeks realized that the octopuses were decomposed and threw them into the sea, the seminarian lit a fire with his glasses and the sun, and we saw him running away from the Greeks who wanted to kill him because of the octopus and the diarrhea still carrying, I had never laughed so much, despite the circumstances we were in.

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The blonde, whose name was Celeste, told me that we could survive by fishing, while she made three bonfires to warn the planes that pass by at night, (apparently it is an international aid code), I tried to explain to her that three bonfires they cut firewood by 66.6%, but that was too much for her.

In the afternoon I went with the blonde and the seminarian to dig a well in the center of the island, to see if we could get fresh water, without success.

That morning we woke up with the news that the Greeks went to try to fish and a school of fish attracted every shark there were in those waters, they came back empty-handed, so I went to look for some coconuts with the blonde.

She took advantage of the fact that we were alone and told me that we had to eat something soon, or we would die of starvation, I meanwhile was thinking that if those Greeks continued shitting all over the island, surely some would die, and there the blonde would enter to devour them, and I I'd settle for the leftovers, I was already getting desperate too.

In the morning we saw an object that was approaching the island, the Greek tourists began to shout like crazy, to then release all the curses they knew in their language, they were the remains of the plane.

From those remains we were able to rescue a complete wing and part of the cabin. I was studying how to make a raft out of that, and I realized that it was possible, but that it would not support much weight, which placed us in another dilemma; Among a universe of five human beings, we had to find someone who did not weigh much, who had the ability to reach the shores, who had the courage to throw himself into the sea and who was a volunteer.

I was really very fat, so I discarded myself once, the blonde was not an option, (God knows where it would have gone), the Greeks, needless to say, so we only had that seminarian left, what else or less he met the conditions for such a trip, so we tried to convince him, and he had already refused outright, when the blonde told him that he was a man of God, and that his faith should be enough to achieve his mission, this He left without arguments and accepted, (I said to myself that with the weight of all those saints on the raft, I would not get very far).

At dawn, the Greeks went fishing and came back with two more octopuses, so they passed them through the coals and for the first time in three weeks we ate something other than those blessed coconuts.

We fed our seminarian and released him into the sea with a candle made with a good part of the clothes that still remained, it worked quite well, since our hero disappeared in a matter of minutes, while the blonde jumped for joy and her tits, which they were already almost exposed, each jumping in a different direction to the delight of this servant.

In the afternoon I saw the Greeks again shitting all over the island, apparently seafood was not their best friends.

At first I did not understand why those Greeks were so closed, and that after a month on that island they had not paid attention to that blonde, who although she was already turning black, still had a lot to show in sight, until one morning when Very early they were going fishing, and I managed to see them kissing on the shore of the beach, there I understood everything.

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So in the end, we were two couples, separated by the difference in language and the social distances between the blonde and me, but that at night we united around that campfire to try to protect ourselves from the cold, although I no longer let myself be hugged by the Greeks.

We woke up at midnight, the screams of the blonde in the distance made us jump from the sandbar where we slept, and we saw in the distance the wing of the plane that was dragged by the waves, there was no sign of the seminarian.

That night I spoke with the blonde, I don't know why the idea got into my head that those Greeks, seeing themselves hopelessly on that island, would try to kill us, to stay alive, and that we should push them forward, besides they were two , which meant more protein reserves, as they came to save us, if they ever did.

At first she was scared, but in the afternoon when she saw them coming with another octopus that they offered just for us, she was convinced.

That night in the heat of the campfire we made a pact that would get us out of there alive.

We spent the whole morning taking shells from the shore, these were a good source of protein and kept us alive, although the Greeks had already broken all records by defecating, since apparently they did not like everything.

We then began the construction of a safer raft with the wing of the plane, all the coconuts and some logs that we managed to float, we tied them with some palms, and the only thing missing was the discussion of who was going to jump into the water in this new adventure, (this was going to get good, I thought).

Indeed, it was useless to communicate with those Greeks, the blonde understood one thing and I another, and when I thought we had reached an agreement, one of the Greeks grabbed the other by the neck and began to slap him, apparently, the Blonde was the cause of that attack of jealousy, as we could, we separated them and left the discussion for the other day.

In the morning we would try to separate them to hit the weakest with an accurate blow and thus balance the forces, since they were still two, and they were young although not so strong.

But at night something happened, when we woke up in the morning both Greeks had thrown themselves into the sea in that raft, leaving us completely alone on that island, and worst of all, now without protein.

So another week passed, where things had gotten very difficult, the blonde looked at me suspiciously, and I only saw her hungry, I thought the time had come to sacrifice her, because if she kept waiting, there would be nothing left to eat her If, at that moment, it had to weigh some 50 kilos at most, minus the ten of the silicone. (Which was kept there as a monument to the advancement of science).

At night, we made love, as a sign that we could live together, (I was only thinking about that praying mantis, who only waits for the copulation to end, to devour the male), but she did not try anything.

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This is how the last week passed on that island, we woke up embraced by the cold, since any type of wood that was on the island was exhausted, and there was no point in killing it, raw it must have tasted horrible, the coconuts were running out, and we had lost all hope.

That night, already without strength and abandoned to our destination, we could see those lights approaching the beach, I could make out in the dark, those unintelligible voices that spoke in Greek, I turned to see my partner, but she did not react, I only saw how they lifted her, while she covered herself with her arms.

It turned out that the Greeks had managed to reach the mainland the next day, but they had to wait until they managed to stop the diarrhea, and by the time they went out to guide the coastguards, a week had already passed.

The only thing I remember of that night was seeing in the dark by the light of the lanterns the boat that took us from that damn island, had the name "San Pedro", and the coast guards, who took about half an hour looking without finding one jacket, so that the blonde could cover her tits.

As we approached the coast, we heard a thud, followed by a heartrending cry: It was the "San Pedro", which crashed into what was left of the plane's cabin, sending our seminarian flying through the air.

Fortunately, nothing serious happened to him, and he was able to tell us that he survived by eating raw fish and taking sips of rainwater, which was a true miracle of God.

And here I am, on my last night on these coasts, at the hotel bar, completely free celebrating that tomorrow we left very early to my country, I could see the seminarian in the distance accompanied by the blonde, and I took the liberty of sending you, to that pair of Greeks, courtesy of the hotel, a shrimp cocktail, since they agreed to stay on those coasts for another week.

The end

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La isla

Esa noche perdimos toda esperanza, estábamos en aquella isla desierta, sin comida, sin fuego y casi sin ropas, viendo cómo se devolvían a aquella isla los pedazos de la balsa que habíamos enviado días antes con aquel marinero joven y musculoso, que se ofreció voluntariamente para tratar de llegar mar adentro y conseguir ayuda, no lo logró.
Y es que cuando chocamos con aquellas aves en la avioneta que nos llevó a aquel paseo del demonio , tuvimos que nadar por nuestras vidas en aquel festín que hicieron los tiburones con los pilotos y gracias a aquel gordo, que por estar tan obeso, todos los tiburones se fueron de bruces contra el y eso nos permitió nadar hasta aquellos cocoteros que vimos a lo lejos.
Habíamos sobrevivido seis de los pasajeros de aquel vuelo turístico, y a pesar de las cercanías con el continente y la civilización, ya habían pasado tres semanas desde que nos estrellamos.
Lo que más me divertía era el seminarista que iba con nosotros en el avión, que un día amanecía rezando a todos los santos que conoció en el seminario, y al día siguiente maldecía como un marinero borracho, que aquello daba gusto.
Entre los pasajeros y aparte del seminarista se encontraban dos turistas griegos que aparte de no hablar el idioma, eran extremadamente brutos con el lenguaje de señas, sabía que si llegábamos al canibalismo, estos eran muy buenos candidatos.
Una rubia despampanante que cada día le quedaba menos ropa, y que daba mucho miedo cuando ponía aquellas enormes tetas de silicon al sol, no sabía si iban a derretirse o a explotar, lo que sí sabía, era que ya estaba soltando la segunda capa de piel y se veía cada vez peor.
Hasta el momento habíamos sobrevivido con agua de coco y la pulpa de estos, pero yo sabía que sin proteínas, no duraríamos mucho más.

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También descubrimos que el silicon no flotaba por sí solo, pero sin embargo, el seminarista me dijo esa mañana que si las cosas seguían así, iba a tratar de "comerse" a la rubia, ya estábamos desesperados.
Pero empecemos por conocernos uno a uno, para entrar en situación: Habíamos sobrevivido seis de los once tripulantes de aquel vuelo de turistas, que yo aun no le encuentro sentido a sobrevolar el mar azul, donde no había nada más que agua y sin nadie que nos explicara dónde carajos estábamos, lo que nos hubiera dado alguna oportunidad de guiarnos para salir de allí.
Los dos turistas griegos, al parecer eran hermanos, aunque cuando a través de señas tratamos de preguntarles, dijeron que venían de grecia y citaron algún poema que me pareció de la Ilíada, aunque hubiese sido más acorde que citaran la Odisea.
La rubia, aunque parecía una actriz porno, se veía que era de familia muy refinada, y lo supe porque demostraba clase, cuando le sacaba la pulpa a los cocos con una cucharilla, que sabrá Dios, de donde la había sacado, salían a relucir sus delicados métodos para comer.
El seminarista, que venía de España, que estaba en una misión religiosa en el pueblo donde nos alojamos, y aprovechó la avioneta para pasear, seguro nunca olvidará este paseo.
Y yo, que acababa de divorciarme, y después de que mi ex perdió la demanda de divorcio, y recuperé buena parte de mi patrimonio, me fui a pasear al caribe y terminé en esa isla de mierda.
El primer día amanecí recordando algunos métodos para hacer fuego y estuve toda la mañana girando una varilla sobre una tabla, para ver si por frotación lo lograba, pero fue inútil, lo único que conseguí, fue escuchar las maldiciones en perfecto español, que iba soltando el seminarista, mientras la rubia le decía que se calmara, que eso no ayudaba.
Mientras yo hacia esto los griegos se fueron a nadar con un arpón que fabricaron con un alambre y las ligas de su ropa interior.
En la tarde se aparecieron con dos pulpos muertos, mientras a mi me sangraban las manos de tanto frotar aquel maldito artilugio, en vano.
Los griegos trataron de comerse los pulpos crudos y ya llevaban 24 horas defecando por toda la isla, mientras masticaban las hojas que les había dado la rubia, para detener aquel derrame intestinal.
Ese día y después que los griegos se dieron cuenta que los pulpos estaban descompuestos y los arrojaron al mar, el seminarista encendió fuego con los anteojos y el sol, y lo vimos correr huyendo de los griegos que querían matarlo por aquello de los pulpos y la diarrea que se cargaban todavía, nunca me había reído tanto, a pesar de las circunstancias en las que estábamos.

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La rubia, que se llamaba Celeste, me dijo que podríamos sobrevivir con la pesca, mientras hacía tres fogatas para avisar a los aviones que pasan en la noche, (al parecer es un código de auxilio internacional), yo trataba de explicarle que tres fogatas disminuyen la leña en un 66,6 %, pero eso fue demasiado para ella.
En la tarde me fui con la rubia y el seminarista a hacer un pozo en el centro de la isla, a ver si logramos sacar agua dulce, sin éxito.
Esa mañana amanecimos con la novedad de que los griegos, se fueron a tratar de pescar y un cardumen de peces atrajo a cuanto tiburón había en aquellas aguas, volvieron con las manos vacías, así que me fui a buscar unos cocos con la rubia.
Ella aprovechó que estábamos solos y me dijo que debíamos comer algo pronto, o moriríamos de inanición, yo mientras tanto estaba pensando que si aquellos griegos seguían cagando por toda la isla, seguramente alguno moriría, y allí entraría la rubia a devorarlos, y yo me conformaría con las sobras, ya me estaba desesperando también.
En la mañana vimos un objeto que se acercaba a la isla, los turistas griegos comenzaron a dar gritos como locos, para luego soltar todas las maldiciones que conocían en su idioma, eran los restos de la avioneta.
De aquellos restos pudimos rescatar un ala completa y parte de la cabina, yo estudiaba la manera de hacer una balsa con aquello, y caí en cuenta que era posible, pero que no soportaría mucho peso, lo que nos colocaba en otro dilema; entre un universo de cinco seres humanos, debíamos encontrar a alguien que no pesara mucho, que tuviera la capacidad de llegar a las costas, que tuviera la valentía de arrojarse al mar y que fuera voluntario.
Yo en verdad estaba muy gordo, así que me descarte de una vez, la rubia no era una opción, (sabrá Dios a dónde hubiera ido a parar), los griegos, ni que decir, así que solo nos quedaba aquel seminarista, que más o menos reunía las condiciones para tal viaje, tratamos de convencerlo, y ya se había negado de plano, cuando la rubia le dijo que él era un hombre de Dios, y que con su fe debía bastar para lograr su misión, esto lo dejó sin argumentos y aceptó, (yo dije para mis adentros que con el peso de todos esos santos en la balsa, no llegaría muy lejos).
Al amanecer, los griegos se fueron a pescar y volvieron con dos pulpos más, así que los pasaron por las brasas y por primera vez en tres semanas comímos algo que no fueran aquellos benditos cocos.
Alimentamos a nuestro seminarista y lo soltamos al mar con una vela hecha con buena parte de la ropa que aún nos quedaba, funcionó bastante bien, ya que nuestro héroe desapareció en cuestión de minutos, mientras la rubia daba saltos de alegría y las tetas, que ya quedaban casi al descubierto, saltaban cada una en una dirección distinta para deleite de este servidor.
En la tarde vi a los griegos nuevamente cagando por toda la isla, al parecer los mariscos no eran sus mejores amigos.
En principio no entendía porque aquellos griegos eran tan cerrados, y que después de un mes en aquella isla no hubieran prestado atención a aquella rubia, que aunque ya se estaba poniendo negra, aún le quedaba mucho por mostrar a la vista, hasta una mañana que muy temprano se iban a pescar, y alcancé a verlos besándose en la orilla de la playa, allí lo entendí todo.

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Así que al final, quedamos dos parejas, separadas por la diferencia del idioma y las distancias sociales entre la rubia y yo, pero que en las noches nos unimos alrededor de aquella fogata para intentar protegernos del frío, aunque ya no me deje abrazar por los griegos.
Despertamos a medianoche, los gritos de la rubia a lo lejos nos hicieron saltar del banco de arena donde dormíamos, y vimos a lo lejos el ala del avión que venía arrastrada por las olas, no había ni rastros del seminarista.
Esa noche hablé con la rubia, no se porque se me metió en la cabeza la idea de que aquellos griegos al verse sin esperanzas en aquella isla, tratarían de matarnos, para mantenerse con vida, y que nosotros debíamos picarles adelante, además ellos eran dos, lo que implicaba más reservas de proteínas, mientras llegaban a salvarnos, si es que alguna vez sucedía.
Al principio ella se asustó, pero en la tarde cuando los vio venir con otro pulpo que nos lo ofrecieron solo para nosotros, se convenció.
Esa noche al calor de la fogata hicimos un pacto que nos sacaría de allí con vida.
Estuvimos toda la mañana sacando conchas de la orilla, estas eran una buena fuente de proteínas y nos mantenían con vida, aunque los griegos ya se habían batido todos los récords defecando, ya que al parecer, todo les caía mal.
Comenzamos entonces la construcción de una balsa más segura con el ala del avión, todos los cocos y algunos troncos que logramos hacer flotar, los amarramos con algunas palmas, y solo faltaba la discusión de quién se iba a lanzar al agua en esta nueva aventura, (esto se iba a poner bueno, pensé).
Efectivamente, fue inútil comunicarnos con aquellos griegos, la rubia entendía una cosa y yo otra, y cuando pensé que habíamos llegado a un acuerdo, uno de los griegos, agarró al otro por el cuello y empezó a darle de bofetadas, al parecer, la rubia fue la causante de aquel ataque de celos, como pudimos los separamos y dejamos la discusión para el otro día.
En la mañana intentaríamos separarlos para darle un golpe certero al más débil y así equilibrar las fuerzas, ya que ellos seguían siendo dos, y eran jóvenes aunque ya no tan fuertes.
Pero en la noche algo ocurrió, cuando despertamos en la mañana ambos griegos se habían echado al mar en aquella balsa, dejándonos completamente solos en aquella isla, y lo peor, ahora sin proteínas.
Así pasó una semana más, donde las cosas se habían puesto muy difíciles, la rubia me miraba con desconfianza, y yo solo la veía con hambre, creí que había llegado el momento de sacrificarla, ya que si seguía esperando, no quedaría nada que comerle, si ya en ese momento debía pesar algunos 50 kilos a lo mucho, menos los diez del silicón. (Que se mantenía allí como un monumento a los avances de la ciencia).
En la noche, hicimos el amor, como una muestra de que podíamos convivir, (yo solo pensaba en aquella mantis religiosa, que solo espera que la cópula termine, para devorar al macho),pero no intentó nada.

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Así transcurrió la última semana en aquella isla, amanecimos abrazados por el frío, ya que se agotó cualquier tipo de madera, que había en la isla, y ya no tenía caso matarla, cruda debía saber horrible, los cocos se estaban agotando, y habíamos perdido toda esperanza.
Esa noche, ya sin fuerzas y abandonados a nuestro destino pudimos ver aquellas luces acercarse a la playa, pude distinguir en la oscuridad, aquellas voces ininteligibles, que hablaban en griego, volteé a ver a mi compañera, pero esta no reaccionó, solo ví como la levantaban, mientras se tapaba con los brazos.
Resultó que los griegos habían logrado llegar al día siguiente a tierra firme, pero debieron esperar hasta lograr parar aquella diarrea, y para cuando salieron a guiar a los guardacostas, ya había pasado una semana.
Lo único que recuerdo de aquella noche, fue ver en la oscuridad a la luz de las linternas la lancha que nos sacó de esa maldita isla, tenía por nombre "San Pedro", y a los guardacostas, que tardaron como media hora buscando sin encontrar una chaqueta, para que la rubia pudiera taparse las tetas.
Cuando nos acercamos a la costa, escuchamos un golpe seco, seguido de un grito desgarrador: Era el "San Pedro", que se estrelló con lo que quedaba de la cabina del avión, haciendo volar por los aires a nuestro seminarista.
Afortunadamente no le ocurrió nada grave, y pudo contarnos que sobrevivió comiendo pescado crudo y tomando sorbos de agua de lluvia, que fue un verdadero milagro de Dios.
Y aquí estoy, en mi última noche en estas costas, en la barra del hotel, completamente gratis celebrando que mañana salimos bien temprano hacía mi país, pude ver a lo lejos al seminarista acompañado de la rubia, y me tomé la libertad de enviarles, a ese par de griegos, cortesía del hotel un coctel de camarones, ya que aceptaron quedarse en aquellas costas, una semana más.

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Hello! Your post was selected by The Ink Well and has received an OCD upvote! Congratulations!

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Hi @gilliatt. I really enjoyed your epic survival story. There were some places where it made me laugh. And the tale kept spinning on, compelling me forward.

Since you used the feedback tag, I will give you some thoughts on your story that I hope will help with future writing.

I think you could work on adding more dialog and description to your stories to bring your characters to life. In this story, for example, the people have labels (the Greeks, the seminarian and the blonde), so we have an idea of who they are, but it's quite limited. I would like to know more about the main character. Who is he in real life? All we know is that he is divorced and fat.

Dialog between people is a great way to help the reader get a better sense of who your characters are. For example, if the blonde said something like, "Oh, if only I had my Jane Eyre to occupy my mind!" then we would know that she is not just a blonde, but she likes to read the classics. If she pined for her Stephen King novel, we would know she reads popular fiction. Without these kinds of details, characters can seem flat, like stereotypes.

And finally, I recommend that you be sure to read your stories through for any errors in grammar and punctuation before publishing them.

Be sure to check out the writing tips. Here are a few that might be of interest:

Good luck with your writing!

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Hello @jayna, I appreciate each and every one of your tips, they are very valuable and I try to follow them all, however, the language barrier is still a big problem, although we are already working on it, I will strive to be better every day, on the other hand , I am very happy that you liked my story, thank you very much for reading me, successes.

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