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The Shaker
This is the story of The Shaker, my first fiction article.
Part One
One day, specifically on October 27, 1996, on the Madrid metro, a boy named Ricardo was getting ready to get off at the “Nuevos Ministerios” stop when he saw how a masked person took a sharp object out of his pocket and was preparing to kill a girl. Just before stabbing her, Ricardo tried to save her and the masked man deflected the edge of the object and stuck it in Ricardo’s stomach. He received a second stab from the girl in his skull, dying instantly.
Minutes later the police came and found the body covered in salt.
Since then, every October 27, a salt shaker appears leaning on the wall where Ricardo’s corpse was perched and it is said that whoever dares to pick up said salt shaker will be killed by this same murderer.
Part Two
On October 27, 2000, a person, ignorant of the situation and without knowledge of the cause, picked up the salt shaker from the ground, said person was a girl named Sofia. The people who saw her began to scream uncontrollably, fleeing from the “Nuevos Ministerios” station.
Sofia got on the next subway that stopped at the station and, halfway there, a tall boy with a sour face tried to snatch the salt shaker from her. Just when Sofia was about to get out of the transport, and without knowing why, she fainted from her and when she regained her sanity, she saw how a dark figure approached her and sliced her skull into two pieces, dying instantly.
Minutes later, they found the salt shaker in exactly the same place where the girl picked it up and, as happened in 1996, the body was found covered in salt.
