Alalay

Fiction per Chance - Land of Snails

turn 3

The score keeper sung, while Pelón separated the two tontos and the five to make a triangle. The three and four went into the goblet, danced for a few beats and softly jumped on the table cloth.

Pelón said while he turned to twos to turn them into fives. With this big one Pelón and Joselito’s team started in good shape. Pelón was so happy he stood up and discretely went to the restroom, not before asking his partner to throw a servida.

When Pelón entered the restroom he quickly pulled out a pipe made from the silver paper found inside cigarette packs. From the pocket, where in bygone days me carried a handkerchief, he extracted a small box that seemed to be made from carved silver; he opened it and filled the pipe with something that looked like tea, but of brown color.

Immediately he lit the pipe and inhaled deeply. He held the smoke in his lungs for a moment and then blew it up, towards the ventilation hole. Again he lit the pipe and inhaled, held the smoke and blew it up. Then he lit up a cigar, and with the towel he fanned the air, making it turn quickly with his hand like in the foot stomping part of the cueca.