A Ray of Moonshine
by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
1 LikesHe followed a glimmer in the night… and found the shadows of his own heart.
When a quiet, brooding young man glimpses a fleeting ray of moonlight across a crumbling stone path, he believes he’s seen her—an ethereal woman bathed in silver light, vanishing before he can speak. Was she real, or just a trick of the night?
Obsessed, he begins a desperate search through empty gardens, silent streets, and haunted memories. But what he’s chasing may not be a woman at all—it may be an illusion born from longing itself.
In this haunting short story, Romantic-era master Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer weaves a delicate, dreamlike tale about the thin veil between reality and fantasy, love and illusion. The Moonlight Ray is a meditation on the beauty we invent, the truths we avoid, and the aching desire to capture something that was never really there.
- Published
- Feb. 13, 1862
- Genre
- pshycological, Romance
- Language
- English
- Total pages
- 6