Mind the Gap is a collection of fiction short stories. They vary in style, themes, tone, characters and length. The aim is to provide a different lens colour to look to reality. It's also the sandbox where I tried different voices, where I experimen...
Sitting at a table by the window, in a coffee shop at West Street, near the NYFA, a Priest and a Rabi are passionately defending their grasp on the Holy Trinity. Behind them, an exchange student, gaze unfocused, listens to the two men while his girlfriend is rumbling about the faculty gossips.
"No, no and no! The Trinity is a solely christian concept!" defends the Priest.
"I am not so sure" protests the Rabi, "In Heb 1:3 we find, ὄς ὤνἀπαύγασμα τῆς δόξης καὶ χαρακτὴρ τῆςὐποστάσεως αὐτοῦ"* he says quoting the Bible in a fluid classical Greek "It clearly refers to the eternal nature of the Son, one of the three-unit".
"Nooo! You are stretching that verse too much! You know better than anyone that Jewish don't recognise the Holy Trinity! You are just trying to annoy me!" the Priest says in an atack of rage while the Rabi burst out laughing.
"Hey! You haven't been paying attention to what I say!" the girlfriend says annoyed.
"Sorry, I've been distracted" says the student looking into her blue eyes, a grin on his face.
"What about?" she says trying to remain annoyed, her starting anger weakened by his grin. This is not the first time her boyfriend let her talking alone.
"About how foolish is to fight over the ownership of borrowed goods" he teases her.
"What the hack!? What do you mean? What goods are you talking about?" she asks angrily confused. He hasn't been paying attention at all!
"Money, compass, paper, the movable printer, ...and the Jing Qi Shen" says the guy, a smile reaching up his asian slanted eyes while focusing his regard on his girlfriend again, this time willing to listen to whatever she says.
* Translation: who being the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature.
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