Short Stories

La Llorona (The weeping woman)

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         I was visiting my family in Mexico to relax before school began for the kids, and before work began for me. It was about last year in the middle of summer. Me and the kids got off the plane and waited for my parents to come to pick us up. Daniel and Louise were so excited to see my parents. We got in the car and drove to their house. When we arrived at their house, the house looked so much bigger than I had remembered. The river near the house seemed bigger and wider as well. When we walked in it was even bigger than it looked on the outside. It was really late, and Daniel, (my oldest child) wanted to go to the movies. I told him no because of the legend of La Llorona. Then I told my kids the story. Then we had dinner and tucked the kids in bed.

     Late that night Louise (my younger child) woke me up at around midnight complaining that she heard a crying outside of her bedroom window saying "mis hijos, mis hijos oh dónde están mis hijos." (My children my children oh where are my children).  I didn’t believe her, I remember thinking that she was just messing with me because of the story I had told her. So I took out the nightlight out of my luggage and carried her back in her room. Then I went to back to my bed and fell asleep.

Then a bit later in the night she woke me up again complaining she heard the crying again and that when she looked out her window she saw a lady and described her wearing all white. She had also told me that Daniel being dragged away by the lady dressed in white.

 I laid her down in my bed and told her to try to get some rest while I went to check on Daniel. I walked past my parents bedroom and opened the door to Daniel’s room. There I saw a a big lump on his bed. I removed the covers and he wasn’t there. I woke up my parents and the rest of my family to see if they had seen him. He was nowhere to be found in the house, so my brothers, dad and I went to check out side, while my mom and sister watched Louise.

Outside I saw a faint glowing object near the water. As I approached I saw the woman dressed in all white, she had looked a little transparent to me with a thin light green fog at the bottom of her feet.

In her arms was my son, and she was dragging him into the water.

I panicked, and ran to him while my brothers and father stayed back not knowing what to do. The women stretched opened her mouth as if she herself was part snake, then she let out a big screech at the top of her lungs. It had made my ears pop. So I moved back and tried to get my family to help, but they were terrified. I looked in their eyes and saw that their fear was devouring them as they stood there petrified unable to move away from the horrid screeching.

Finally, I got them to come to their senses and then they started to try with all their strength to get him away. But the closer we got the wider her mouth stretched and the louder her screams became. At one point her screeches had became so loud they had shattered all the windows to my parents house as if they were nothing at all.

Now Daniel was now knee deep in the water, and he was struggling to get away from the crazy woman. Me and my 3 brothers were struggling to even stand up with out falling back. Then she aimed right for our faces and screeched causing the water around her arise just enough to swallow my family and I then everything went black.

When I awoke, there was no evidence of shattered windows, and my ears were perfectly fine. My father and brothers were fine too, it was as if nothing had happened at all. But I knew the incident did happen because there in the water was the body of my son floating, slowly drifting away from me.

The End