The dinosaur
El dinosaurio (The dinosaur) is a flash fiction written by the guatemalteco writer of Honduran origin Augusto Monterroso, published as a part of the book "Obras completas (y otros cuentos)", in 1959. It is considered one of shortest stories in Spanish, and its whole text is the following: Meaning: "When he woke, the dinosaur was still there." It is a simple sentence that forms a flash story, probably the most famous of all those published by Monterroso throughout his career. It was considered the shortest conte in the Spanish language, until the publication of another three works while  the 21st century: one in 2005, "El emigrante", by Luis Felipe Lomelí; other, in 2006, "Luis XIV", by Juan Pedro Aparicio, and in 2015, "Epitafio para un microrrelatista", by Marcelo Gobbo. Impact in the Mexican popular culture. In the history of Mexico, the Institutional Revolutionary Party remained in power for more than seven decades; it was compared, because of its antiquity, to a dinosaur; constantly, the party and its members are represented in articles, interviews, analyzes and cartoons as these animals, so the micro-story is used constantly.