FLUTE SOPHIA'S

Our town was filled with rats. Huge, gray. At first they stole food, and then gradually began to attack people.

In the city people were afraid to go out. There was no poison in the rats. I thought of an old fairy tale in which rats, enchanted, followed the flute.

A friend of Sophia learned to play it in a special school. She hated this school and her flute. But when I suggested that she try to get the rats out of the city, she agreed. And she said - if it does not work, she will break the flute.

But a miracle - the rats ran to the sounds of the flute, and followed us. They became more and more. We approached the city canal, and the rats crowded around us, and it became frightening. Then we boarded a catamaran and sailed from the shore - and the rats rushed to the canal.

We sailed for a long time, then stopped playing, and moored. Where did the rats - I do not know. But in the city they were no more.

For STACH Short Story Contest