THE BLACK CAT AND OTHER STORIES

EDGAR ALLAN POE.

The black cat
Once upon time was a young couple. They lived happy and comfortable. The wife bought the most beautiful animals.
Specially they had a cat, the cat was a very large and very intelligent, it named Pluto.
The husband loved to Pluto, next he was changing with his wife. He used to drink a lot of liquor, after he hit to his wife,
when he was hiting his wife, Pluto was looking.
Next he was often doing horrible things to others animals, except Pluto.
Day by day he learned to hate to Pluto, and Pluto was doing the same. One night he took his knife from his pocket, held
the poor animal by neck and cut out one of its eyes, next night he held to Pluto in a tree, after he woke up and watched the
house burned down to the ground, next he saw a black shape in the new white plaster. It was the shape of large cat,
hanging by his neck.
After they fixed their house. One day appeared a cat. This cat was black, it did not have one eye, on the cats front was the
shape of that terrible machine of pain of death.
One night the husband was playing pocker with his friends, after the wall was broking, next appeared the wife. She was
blooding all heat and in his heat was a cat.
Oval Portrait
A man was traveling for a long time, he saw a strangely beautiful house, he decided to go. When he arrived, he looked for
a room.
Next day he saw a lot of beautiful pictures on the walls of house. He was walking in the rooms, when he saw a oval
portrait, the picture was a portrait. It was oval in shape, and showed the head and shoulders of a young woman.
Next day he found a paper, this paper contained the story of oval portrait.
This house belonged to a painter, he married with a young woman. One day he decided to paint to his beautiful wife. He
painted to his wife every day. For that situation a young woman was sick, but her husband did not know.
When he finished the oval portrait, his wife died.
Next he lives in the oval portrait and looks up the pictures of her husband.
Berenice
Berenice was cousin of a man. That man was shy and intelligent. He did not kown his parents. He was born in the library
of his house because he had never known another world without his books. He always read and learned many things.
While he was studying in the library, Berenice was walking, singing and laughing in the garden. For that situation he
loved to Berenice.
One day Berenice was sick, he felt very sad and depressed. Her face changed, his face was white and old, his eyes lost his
light, but his smile did not change. After he was sick, he had Monomania ( Thinking about one thing, or idea, and not
being able to stop).
Next, Berenice went to speak he, she decided to marry whit him, he felt very happy and confusing, because he only
remembered a Berenices smile.
Next day, in the night a Doctor went to visit he, because Berenice was died. The doctor said to him, Berenice was
blooding in the garden, she did not died. He looked an strange box in the library, he opened it, find teeth of Berenice and
his arms was blooding.
The mask of the Read Death
The Read Death was a terrible ill. First, you felt burning pains in your stomach. The everything began to turn round and
round inside your head. The blood began to come out through your skin, you began to bleed all over your body, but most
of all through your face.
For a long time the Red Death was everywhere in the land. In this place lived a Prince, he was brave hard and friendly. He
decided went to live in a castle far away there. He invited only special friends. When they arrived to the castle, the Prince
locked the great door of the house and threw the key over the wall, into the lake outside.
In this castle had many rooms, every rooms was different for example one room was complete red other was complete
black , dark and terrible.
One day the Prince and his friends were doing a party. All persons was wearing masks and colorful clothes, after an
stranger entered to the party, he was wearing black clothes. His mask was the face of the dead man ( the mask of the Read
deDeath).
Everyone felt fear, but the Prince thought about was a joke and everyone continued dancing and drinking. After the
stranger walked to the Prince, and cut heart of Prince. All people cried, others persons tried to kill to the stranger. When
they attacked to him, only fell clothes to the floor. After all people died with Read Death.
By Paul Rodrguez.