Cuento de Mi Id

"The Ultimate Monster"

(I am reposting some old stories of mine on this site for practice. Eventually I hope to post newer stories which have not yet been posted online. I hope you enjoy them.)

I met an old man in the marketplace. He promised to show me the ultimate monster. But all he had to show me was a piece of silvered glass.

I feared he would laugh at me so I beat him to death with my fists and buried him beneath the floor of his own shop.

Much later, it occurred to me that he might have given me a magic mirror. But the only image I ever could see in the glass was my own face.