The Fighting Cock

"They say that it is the best one in the province", the Colonel argued. "It’s worth about fifty pesos". He was sure that that argument justified his determination to keep the cock, a legacy from his son, riddled with bullets nine months previously in the cockpit for distributing clandestine information. "It is an expensive illusion", his wife said. "When the corn runs out we will have to feed it with our livers".

No One Writes to the Colonel