O Menino e o Ovo

11/28/2023

You know what it's like at school – there's always some kid telling tall tales or rehashing urban legends. This boy (it's almost always a boy) personalises the story and tells it like it happened to him, or someone close to him, or his cousin's friend's uncle, so it must be true. Any adult overhearing this nonsense immediately recognises the tale and wryly smiles to themselves while yet another generation succumbs to the telling of the eternal story. You know which tales they are – giant sewer alligators that have grown big after being flushed down the toilet; a girl who got a large red spot on her face one night which grew and grew until a nest of baby spiders erupted from it; the teenagers who spoke the name 'Candyman' five times into the mirror until he appeared and slaughtered them