Spanish short stories for C1 learners

El hombre puso el pie sobre algo blando y pálido, y al instante un dolor seco le mordió el talón.

The man stepped on something soft and pale, and at once a sharp pain bit into his heel.

Siempre que los descendientes del tío Rabosa se topaban con los mozos de la viuda de Casporra, el pueblo entero rompía a murmurar.

Whenever the descendants of old Rabosa ran into the young men of the Casporra widow, the whole village would burst into murmurs.

Yo figuraba entre los invitados al casamiento de Bernardo de Meneses con Micaelita Aránguiz.

I was among the guests invited to the wedding of Bernardo de Meneses and Micaelita Aránguiz.

Frágil y pulida como una alhaja de carne tibia, aquella muchachita de piel rosada habitaba una casa diminuta cuyo salón se vestía con tapices de un azul a punto de desmayarse.

Fragile and polished like a jewel of warm flesh, that rosy-skinned girl lived in a tiny house whose parlor was dressed in tapestries of a blue on the verge of fainting.

A una hora indefinida, el clamor pausado de las campanas me arrancó del sueño, y doblaban por los muertos.

At some indefinite hour, the slow tolling of the bells tore me from sleep, and they were ringing for the dead.

Adquirí al mono en la subasta de un circo que acababa de irse a la ruina.

I acquired the monkey at the auction of a circus that had just gone bankrupt.

Eran tres, siempre los mismos: Rosa, Pinín y aquella vaca que todos llamaban la Cordera.

There were three of them, always the same: Rosa, Pinín, and the cow that everyone called Cordera.

En una habitación de techo bajo y paredes que se estrechaban, el capataz de turno vigilaba desde su mesa el descenso de los mineros durante aquella cruda mañana invernal.

In a low-ceilinged room with walls that narrowed inward, the foreman on duty watched from his desk the miners' descent during that harsh winter morning.