Short stories - the blindspot

in #story6 years ago (edited)

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Bantu is a homeless beggar, who wanders across the town of Cedar, he move from one store to another in search of food to eat, Bantu has his own past, he was once a father. He was traumatized when he lost is son an wife in a car accident, since then his life changed.

Bantu found a shelter for himself, in front of a store in the town of Celdac, but unfortunately he always woke up every morning with whooping by the store owner, " Get up useless man", the store owner says! he chases him every morning, but Bantu still comes back to the same spot to sleep every night.

One day the store owner resume in the morning to find bantu sleeping as usual in front of his shop he did not only beat him he also poured a bucket of dirt water on him, he chased him away,

That should have been enough for Bantu to change is location where he sleeps but he came back in evening to sleep. The day after the store owner didn't find Bantu sleeping in front of the shop, the third day he was worried and tried to ask people if they witness Bantu's whereabouts, that made him check his cctv camera to see if he could find something.

Then it begins,; Bantu has been protecting the shop for a very long time, for the store owner every night, he chases intruders trying to spray drawing on the door, and thief's who try to break into the shop, but the last night he found some armed robbers trying to break into the store he tried his best to protect the shop but unfortunately he was stabbed, he crawled through the street until died. This was shocking for the store owner to watch this happened. he didn't know anything about this, his regrets were "if I had known".

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