Short Stories 短篇小说

SHORT STORIES   短 篇 小 说

H e a v e n

“It happened abruptly. From one second to the next, my time was up. One of the machines tolled my knell: 

Ding . . . ding . . . ding . . .” 

After lying comatose in a poorly defined state for eight years, prominent pro-life activist Rev. Kelvin Lee (II) was finally dragged to featureless Heaven by the icy cold hand of Archangel Michael. Rev. Lee's first day of Eternal Life was long and unsettling. From officious Gabriel who behaved more like an English butler than a Jewish angel, he learnt that Jesus had relocated to Hell, where His soul-saving talents are most needed, and Heaven was shared exclusively by dead good Christians and Muslims only.

 

Link:   http://t.co/N2VtpJm

天 堂

李奉獻牧師死後才發覺

原來他傳教時描述的天堂

基本上正確

只恨自己一直都沒有把永生和天堂的景象仔細參透

「一秒鐘前我還昏迷得相當穩定，充分滿足了「生命」在法律上的定義。一秒鐘後就不成了。身旁的一座儀器，像敲喪鐘，又像道士打齋，很執著地響著：叮叮，叮叮， 叮叮 。 。 。人來啊，人來啊！」

大昏迷八年多後，反打胎反安樂死的活躍宗教人士李奉獻終於被冷冰冰的天使長米高拖上天堂了。身為牧師的李奉獻，現在才想到聖經從未提及見到上帝應該握手，鞠躬，還是伏地跪拜。永生的第一天感覺很長，心裡很不踏實。接待的天使長加百利裝腔作勢，像個英國紳士管家多過猶太天使。從他口中，李奉獻得悉上帝獨子耶穌認為天堂枯燥，對他拯救靈魂的天分也沒有需求，已經移居地獄。更令他不安的，是天堂原來只容納過了身的基督徒和回教徒。

鏈接：http://guo-du.blogspot.hk/2010/12/blog-post_09.html

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M i d l i f e  T r i a d

As Dragon Arm Ah Wah enters Dorm L1 of the Tong Fuk Correctional Institution, one could tell from his unhurried gait that he had walked into more troubling situations before. 

But time had changed everything, including the underworld. Young thugs nowadays take virtual blood-oaths by drawing a red line across the palm to avoid unnecessary pain, and the prospect of bird flu. Triad membership is purely profit-driven. Loyalty is transferrable, dictated by risk and return. 

Ah Wah can’t help feeling obsolete as he reminisces about the romantic horrors, injustice, and glories in his gangland of the past.

Read Story：http://guo-du.blogspot.hk/2013/05/midlife-triad-part-1-of-2.html

Anthologised in Of Gods and Mobsters

蠱惑仔的中年危機
（一個香港的監獄故事）

想當年曾經打遍尖沙嘴，江湖上人稱 「尖嘴四小龍」 之一的阿華走進久別了的監倉時，心情有如一個幾十年第一次回家的的遊子，目光流露著複雜的感情，在陌生了的環境中找尋熟識的過去。

時間在不斷改變和侵蝕一切，連社會最幽暗的角落也不放過。今天的年輕黑幫用紅氈筆畫手掌代替歃血為盟，拿餐刀破雞蛋取代斬雞頭發誓。對他們來說，為利益出賣兄弟只不過商業行為，無需大驚小怪。阿華這傳統古惑仔除了搖頭嗟嘆世風日下，還可以如何面對改變呢？

蠱惑仔的中年危機 「鏈接」：

http://guo-du.blogspot.hk/2013/05/blog-post_10.html

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A story based on the St. Stephen's College massacre in Hong Kong. 

In 1941, St. Stephen's College had been turned into a field hospital for British and Indian soldiers. On early morning Christmas Day, military nurse Eleanor Thomson and her roommate couldn't sleep. They nervously listened to the school bell tolling erratically by a freakish wind. Before dawn, it stopped. Like a nightmare coalesced into reality, Japanese soldiers precipitated out of darkness, smelling like alcohol...

http://guo-du.blogspot.hk/2014/02/comfort-woman-eleanor.html

C o m f o r t  W o m a n  E l e a n o r 

As published by the Asia Literary Review, Summer 2015: 

http://www.asialiteraryreview.com/issue/303

1941 年，香港赤柱聖士提反學校是英軍臨時醫院。聖誕前夕晚上的風很大，很亂，一直刮到深夜。校園的大銅鐘被吹得間中乍響。艾蓮娜和同房瑪嘉烈姑娘都未能入睡

瑪嘉烈說這風很邪

天亮前，噩夢終於凝聚，像沈澱物般由濃密的黑暗中冒出，破滅了幻覺似的最後一點希望。
鏈接： http://guo-du.blogspot.hk/2014/02/blog-post.html

慰安婦艾蓮娜 刊登于2014年3月号香港作家

一個可能令人不安的歷史故事，不一定純屬虛構。。。

http://guo-du.blogspot.hk/2014/02/blog-post_4.html

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T h e  J u s t i c e  o f  S i n 

A prosecutor, journalist, and a legislator conspired to defend Hong Kong's "core values" over a glass of warm beer. 
http://guo-du.blogspot.hk/2014/04/the-justice-of-sin.html

冼 蛇 的 公 義

這個純屬虛構的短篇小說，和香港的今天的現實同樣虛幻：一名檢控官，一個立法會議員，和一個記者，各懷鬼胎，摸著酒杯，捍衛香港的 “核心價值”。

http://guo-du.blogspot.hk/2014/04/blog-post_2982.html#more

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B e t w e e n   L i v e s 

His wife is giving birth to their first baby, 

while his mother is dying at the same time, in the same hospital

A speechless farewell
fragments of regrets, shivers of memories

the dust of life colliding

in a brief flurry of time

http://guo-du.blogspot.hk/2014/10/between-lives.html



生 死 之 間

他正準備第一次做爸爸！
當太太臨盆之際，他的媽媽在同一家醫院內臨危

習慣了多年的愛，早已變得平凡，甚至令人煩厭
永別在即，遺忘了的歲月被赤裸裸地翻了出來
無法填補的懊悔，注定永成追憶

另一個生命的開始，卻充滿了勇氣，活力，希望
生命的始末在同一時空碰撞，抵消，摩擦，角力
當避無可避的時候，愛的真貌究竟是美？是醜？
 
http://guo-du.blogspot.hk/2014/10/blog-post_23.html

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香江山賊

話說 伶仃洋外，有小島香江，遠看似仙山，近看像沙灘。島上住了六七百人，打魚摸蜆為生，也算安居樂業，戶戶炊煙。島民捕來海鮮，自吃不下，拿來炒炒賣賣與經過的夷船商販，日子逐漸富裕。唯富不過三代乃不易真理，靈驗如同魔咒，十中難一幸免。三代下來，不少香江伙子變得渾身妖氣，頭腦恍惚，口臭異常。。。

鏈接：香江山賊

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G o l l u m' s  D e m o n

Gollum will soon be discharged from jail

Thirteen years had passed slowly. Some days had felt like eternity. 

Life is hard, but starting a new life is much harder.

The sun will be up soon. Is Demon still alive?

http://guo-du.blogspot.hk/2015/11/gollums-demon.html

Gollum's Demon

as anthologised 
in "this is how you walk on the moon" 
by Ethos Books, Singapore 
 
https://www.ethosbooks.com.sg/products/this-is-how-you-walk-on-the-moon

咕 嚕 的 心 魔

http://guo-du.blogspot.hk/2015/11/blog-post_29.html

十三年的牢獄生涯快將過去。雖則度日如年，回頭看也不過眨眼之間。

再過五個星期，咕嚕便可以恢復自由，重新做人。

他現在才發覺，做人難，重新做人更難。

太陽出來之後，心魔還有活下去的空間嗎？

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D r e a m s  o f  U t o p i a

Cupid Kim’s dream lover Mei has drastically changed him

The affair seems too good to be true 

but far too unsettling if not

At one point, it nearly drives him to suicide

(Warning: Adult content. Children might find it unsuitable in any case.) 

Link: http://guo-du.blogspot.hk/2016/11/dreams-of-utopia.html 

夢 遺 烏 托 邦

金雲傑律師除了高度稍遜，算得上是個現代都市的成功人士

他有錢有臉，老婆漂亮威風，比自己高出了整整一英吋半

縱使人生有型無實，卻總算保住了幸福形象

夢嬌的出現，把一切都徹底改變過來

想不到「真作假時假亦真」......

（敬告：內含成人片段，兒童讀這故事可能會打盹兼發惡夢）
 
鏈接： http://guo-du.blogspot.hk/2016/11/blog-post.html

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B E Y O N D   R E A S O N A B L E   D O U B T

 

Asha faces a manslaughter charge

He believes in ultimate justice

While remanded in custody, his cellmate Veer Singh tells him justice is 

a show, a public performance

and folks like them are just stage props

Link: http://guo-du.blogspot.com/2021/09/beyond-reasonable-doubt.html

《法網「灰灰」》

阿薩是香港出生的尼泊爾人，為人謙厚樂觀，但比較窮

在一次交通事故中，他被控誤殺，身陷古典嚴肅的程序公義

阿薩相信法官，律師，陪審員都有天生良心，自會維持公道

他還押時的印度囚友維星哥卻有不同看法

在種族歧視，制度虛偽和社會普遍神經衰弱的影響下

法網是一大片灰色地帶，司法程序不過一場大戲

而他們是舞台道具

鏈接： http://guo-du.blogspot.com/2021/09/blog-post.html

《法網「灰灰」》英文版本 

Beyond Reasonable Doubt 

由Hong Kong Writers Circle於2019年出版

收集在《Coming to Our Senses》

*** FLASH  FICTION   闪灵短篇 微型小说 ***

Democracy Debate and Chinaman's House

Now, what has democracy got to do with the Chinaman's House?!

Link: http://guo-du.blogspot.hk/2012/11/democracy-debate-and-chinamans-house.html

民主辯論與【中國佬的豪宅】

民主，究竟跟中國佬的豪宅有啥關係呢？

鏈接： http://guo-du.blogspot.hk/2012/11/blog-post.html
  

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A P O L O G I E S


Mr. President and Mr. Prime Minister discuss the need to apologise for war crimes. 

Link: http://guo-du.blogspot.hk/2012/12/apologies.html

道歉

總統先生和首相先生談論有關屠殺的道歉問題

链接：http://guo-du.blogspot.hk/2012/12/blog-post.html

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 L u c k y  H o n g  K o n g  B i r d s : 

A few urban pigeons having a lunchtime conversation, feeling sorry for wild birds who reportedly swallow life fish for meals!

幸 福 的 港 鳥

幾隻幸福的港鳥圍著垃圾桶午膳，想到北方的野鳥經常生吃鮮魚，感到十分嘔心

http://guo-du.blogspot.hk/2013/01/lucky-hong-kong-birds.html

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End of the World 2012: 

Why are so many fascinated by the end of the world but afraid of personal death?

Link：http://guo-du.blogspot.hk/2012/12/end-of-world-2012.html
  

世 界 末 日  2 0 1 2

為什麼那麼多人都怕死怕得要死，卻暗中期望世界末日呢？

鏈接：http://guo-du.blogspot.hk/2012/12/2012.html