A very simple and tiny short story, maybe for children, about a smile. I wrote it a couple of hours ago. It came as easy as a thought that began "once upon a time there was a smile". And the rest came afterwards. Hope you like it, if you read it. (Please, if you do, could you write any comment? I'd like to know what people think about it ;).

A Smile

Once upon a time there was a smile. She was so bright, lovely and happy that everybody thought she would never fade. From time to time she was shier than she used to be, but it only lasted some days, so later on, she would be as nice as always she had been.

Occasionally, she started to leave during some hours, then days and finally, weeks. Nobody knew where she had gone. Neither the smile did. She found herself in a dark place without anything, apart of black.

The smile was imprisoned during a lot of time in a jail of sadness and she could not get off it. She waited and waited and waited. She nearly got desperate. Until one day (although she did not know when was day or night), a tiny little ray of light entered the dark. She was very happy. How could that have happened? But it did.

Eventually and very slooooooooowly, the light got bigger and bigger and more and more powerful, till there was no darkness at all.

At least, the smile was free again.

She went out –very carefully,– and rejoined her friends who were all as happy as she for her return.

And they lived happily ever after? Well, they did. Sort of. There were times that the smile felt pretty sad and she disappeared a little while, but she knew the way to come back, so her little trips lasted just a few days.

(c. Isthar Piñol aka Inanna Pilgrim)

I thought that it would be necessary to write a short presentation or maybe leave here some signs to realize, you magic people, that I'm alive lol.

First of all, there's not a big necessity to present myself in this blog, because in the left side of the page there's a HUGE list of things that I like, so you can get a pretty good idea of how I am. However...

I'm from Spain. Catalonia, the 'county' where I live is in the North-West part of Spain (near the Mediterranean Sea). I think I am one of the few people in my city that like so much the celtic world (from mythology and music to religion), faeries, fantasy... So, I thought it could be good to have another web-blog-thing page in the net, as in this way I may know more people that have the same interests as me. (I'm quite lucky of having some friends that also love this kind of things, unfortunatelly, none of them lives in my town ^^U, a pity).

I don't know what will be the use I'll give to this place. Usually, I post at: http://www.inannapilgrim.blogspot.com in Spanish (reflections, fairytales, basically a hodgepodge or hotchpotch (whatever is written lol)), and also I write sometimes in my account of DeviantArt, where I upload photos and some... mmm... more-or-less art I do (it really sucks, I'm very bad, unlike my boyf and friends... T_T). The direction is http://inannapilgrim.deviantart.com/ if you have an account at DA and want to say hello, it'll make me be very happy ^^.

Maybe I'll do a kind of English-version of my journal, or I'll write more about faeries, celtic-druidic stuff, or post things that I've read recently. Oh! And photos, loads of photos! That's quite for sure XD.

By the way, I have just returned from Broceliande (a big forest in Brittany, France), where lots of Arturian legends take place... and it's SO beautiful! I recommend to everybody that if you have the chance to go there, just do it! =D

Well, it's time to go to bed (it's 0:00 AM) and tomorrow I have classes...

If somebody reads this and thinks that we could get along well, feel free to leave a comment, send a note, or whatever ^^

Have a nice day!

Inanna Pilgrim