STACH Short Story Contest #23: A BLOOD RED SKY My First Original Fictional Story :) Enjoy...
Red sky at night, shepherds' delight;
Red sky in the morning, shepherds' warning.
Those were the old rhymes I knew about the Bloody Red Sky while I was a shepherd at one Mountain Village. Too bad that I did not remember those when it really mattered.
It was a nice sunny morning and I was getting ready to prepare for the daily tour with my sheep around the village. I did not pay much attention to the sky which was Bloody Red, I guess I was much into getting all sheep out and feeding the dogs.
So I went on my regular route I go every day. All looked and sounded peaceful. Well, maybe too peaceful actually. That made me think if something was going on.
I looked around if there is anyone or anything close to me or my sheep but I just saw nothing more than a couple of flies and a crow.
And then it happened from nowhere...A lightning struck down on one of my sheep and a vicious storm started out of nowhere. Right at that moment, I remembered those poetic words.
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Beautifully written. I thought of the other version of the quote, which is "Red sky at night, sailors' delight. Red sky in the morning, sailors' warning. " My story goes like this: A fisherman, who was a father of five children, went out to sea one sunny morning to try his luck again. His family had not eaten a decent meal for over two days now. The children were starving. The fisherman thought he could drop the net for an hour, hoping for a good catch. He was filled with excitement because his boat would be loaded with hundreds of fish. His family would no longer be hungry. But as he was drawing the heavy net back into his boat, thunder and lightning struck. Storm was raging in. The next day, the children were still waiting for their father while their mother was secretly mourning.
Thank You. By the way at first I was going to write a sea story :) But then the inspiration I had said different hehe thanks for your nice comment and story too... A bit sad thou :)
Your story did a good job of building suspense in a very short space and the ending was a complete surprise. It was a good short read. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you. I am happy that people like this. I will try to continue with those writing stints :) Let's hope muse strikes again.
A good fictional display and here is the line that got me much more thinking ......
I looked around if there is anyone or anything close to me or my sheep but I just saw nothing ....... So after this there was an attack that struck the sheep ...... Good use of figurative words here.
Thank you. It is my first kind of made up story :) So I was not expecting much from myself :)
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Short and sweet. Not much different from poetry.
Thank you. :) I am happy you guys like it :) I have to continue with it... But will be quite busy until the end of the month because of the upcoming project.
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