Short Story

Beauty Contest

A successful beauty product company asked the people in a large city to send brief letters about the most beautiful woman they knew, along with the woman’s pictures. Within days, weeks and months thousands of letters were delivered to beauty Product Company.

One by one the letters read by company staff. One letter caught the attention of secretary in Beauty Company, the secretary directly handed it to the company president.

The letter was written by a young boy named Nonoy. He came from a broken family living in a rundown neighborhood. Nonoy parents get separated at his young age.

 In his letter that he send in company, he told that there is a beautiful woman lives down the street on way to their house. Nonoy visit her every day, they play puzzle and different kind of board games. “She makes me feel like I’m the most important kid in the world, she listen to my problem, and give me immediate advice”, Nonoy explained. He added that this woman yells out when he leave that she is proud of him.

Nonoy ended his letter by saying “this picture shows you that she is the most beautiful woman I ever saw. I wish I have a wife as pretty as her.

Intrigued by the letter the President of the company asks to see the woman picture that enclosed in the letter. His secretary handed him a photograph of a smiling, toothless woman, well-advanced in years and sitting in a wheelchair. Sparse gray hair was pulled back in a bun and wrinkles that formed deep on her face somehow diminished by the twinkle of her eyes.

Then the president explained, he smile and said, “We can’t use this woman, she would only show the world that our product aren’t necessary to be beautiful……..

The end