1. Instituto Superior de Administração e Línguas
Curso Superior de Organização e Gestão Hoteleira
Subject: English III
The Silver Moon
Short story by: RAQUEL VIEIRA | ALEXANDRINA REBOLO
2. Characters
Maggie – She travelled with Lukas to
Porto for an interview and gets a job like
receptionist in Eclipse inc. Maggie is
hopeful and ingénue.
Raquel – Friends of Maggie that was
studying in a College in Porto. She was
caught by the Eclipse inc. She is a good
listener.
3. Characters
Lukas – He is Maggie’s friend, but he will
become her boyfriend. He had a tattoo,
which was a third quarter silver moon on
their right shoulder. He hided his dark
side to be able to persuade Maggie and
Raquel.
BB Sisters – Barbara and Bella, friends of
Lukas. They made Lukas know about that
company. They also had the same tattoo
4. THE New Moon
The story starts with a phone call for Maggie from a
company called eclipse inc. Someone told her that she
had been selected for the final phase of the recruitment
in Porto. She had just a few hours to organize everything
and go straight to their office. She would stay in Porto for
one week.
After this phone call she hangs out and called Lukas, a
friend who was responsible for that phase of her life. On
that conversation she asked Lukas for go with her and
stay together arguing that they going to celebrate if she
had that job.
Lukas accepts the invitation and they travel together to
Porto.
When they arrived, Maggie goes to the interview and she
5. The First
QuarterMaggie knew Lukas for three Years, they had met
at Facebook when he was studying on a Medical
University in Porto City at the 1st year of the
degree.
Lukas and Maggie weren’t sweethearts before
because Maggie was unemployed and she wanted
to had a stable life before get involved with
someone. As a new phase of her life was about to
begin he just appear to be the right person to start
with. They started to date under the first quarter
moonlight.
6. The First
Quarter
Maggie wants to visit Raquel but Lukas wants her
to meet his two friends first. The BB sisters,
Barbara and Bella. They were twins with a B name
and they made Lukas know about that company .
They had one particular thing, a matching tattoo,
which was a third quarter Silver moon on their
right shoulder.
Maggie was happy, new job, new boyfriend and
two new friends, the BB sisters. Until there she
had no reasons to smile.
7. The Full Moon
The sun was setting and they were left alone.
Maggie was led by Lucas to their room and they
made Love. When she woke up she hold him
tight and she notice on his right shoulder a third
quarter silver moon tattooed, just like the BB
sisters.
Maggie asked the meaning of that tattoo but
Lukas refused to tell her and he got up the bed,
dressed up and left the room. She tried to call
him but he never picked up his phone. She
couldn’t understand that attitude and she was
choked.
8. The Third
Quarter
They went to a bar and had a couple drinks and Maggie
started to feel woozy.
He carried her outside, to a deserted dark corner and
apologizes for what he was about to do. Bella appeared
dressed in black and Barbara was holding an injection for
her.
One week later Maggie’s phones start ringing. Raquel was
trying to talk with Maggie. Lukas answered and told her that
Maggie left and forgot her phone. Lukas told Raquel for she
picked up Maggie’s phone at Ribeira to return to her she
accepts.
Lukas talks with Barbara for warn her sister because at that
night they going to have fresh supplies.
9. “As the new victim was about to
get caught, a new cycle had
begun, continuous as the silver
moon shining in the sky.”