His Words Were Louder

Usha got out of the car cleaning her bloody mouth.

Her wound was gone. She looked behind her at the family covered in blood lying on their seats. Their hearts still beating.

The car hit a tree by the side of the highway when she attacked the man driving. Then attacked the mother and lastly the two children. She fed until the wound was gone then she suddenly remembered Adam and got out of the car.

Why now? Why did remember Adam now? It wasn’t the first time she fed on children after she met Adam. He wasn’t there when she fed on the little’s boy heart. Why now?

The demon side of her wanted to finish the job. Leaving them alive was risking. They all saw her and would put her in trouble. But Adam, his words, were so intense in her mind that she couldn’t turn and kill them as she had done many times before.

Their hearts kept beating and calling.

But Adam’s words were louder.

She took a deep breath and decided to go back to the brothers.

The Prince, The Queen, Spry and Aut.

I have found this story in an old note-book. I probably wrote it many years ago when I was a kid. It made me smile, so I thought to edit it a bit share it. It’s probably one of the few short stories I actually finished.

- S

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The world was covered in ice.

The sky was gloomy over snow-covered lands.

Crops were dying and barely fed people. The waters were frozen and people couldn’t satisfy their thirst.

The world was freezing.

One day, Prince Su came from the south preaching of a star that could melt the ice and bring light. People started listening and asking about this new life.Soon they demanded for a new King.

But the queen decided to imprison the Prince and execute him in front of everyone. One of the Queen’s servants, Aut, was very kind with the Prince. She fed him the warmest food, the warmest water and covered him in the most prestigious wool.

The Prince fell in love with Aut and promised to marry her and make her queen one day. Aut went crying to her Queen begging for forgiveness for the poor Prince. The Queen got furious and denied Aut to ever visit the Prince again.

Aut wrote to her Prince everyday and secretly sent him her letters. She apologized for not being able to visit him and for his fate. The Prince was confident though, and reassured her that he will be alright and that soon everything will change.

On the day of the execution, the Queen asked all her people to meet at the frozen lake, where the Prince will be executed. Everyone was there; mothers, children. The Queen’s servants stood by the Queen’s side. Including Aut.

Everyone gathered around the lake. The Prince was brought in chains before Queen. The Queen ordered an anchor to be tied at the Prince’s waist. She ordered the soldiers to push the Prince in the lake, but before he sank, he smiled to Aut. Then he disappeared under the dark waters and ice started forming above him.

The Queen was about to start her speech, the lake’s ice started melting and the Prince emerged from the waters. The Queen furiously ordered his death, but the soldiers were too shocked by what happened.

The Prince started promising warmth and serenity. He ordered the Queen to be imprisoned in the same lake. The soldiers eager for some warmth tied the anchor to the Queen’s waist and pushed her in the lake. The water around her started freezing and soon she sank in her ice prison.

The Prince married Aut and she became queen and the lands started melting. Light replaced the gloomy sky and the lands were filled with colors.

But serenity didn’t last long. As the years passed, the colors were replaced by brown and yellow shades. Waters started evaporating and crops started burning.

Even the Prince and Aut’s happiness vanished. Aut couldn’t live in a place so hot. The prince ordered a castle to be built by the lake, the coolest place. They met occasionally as the Prince couldn’t be in a place too cold.

Soon the only water left was the one in the lake. But the Prince prohibited anyone from going to the lake as the Queen might be able to escape. One day, some though, decided to go swim in the lake. They felt the cool water and were relieved. But soon ice started pulling them down. Everyone was scared to go inside the lake. Even the Prince could do nothing. So Aut jumped in the water and helped the men out. The ice couldn’t pull her down.

Someone else also jumped to help Aut. A soldier named Spry. Together they helped everyone out of the water. The Prince decided to thank Spry by making him lord and was invited to every royal event.

Aut and Spry spent lots of time together by the lake, the only place they could be together. The Prince became furious and thought he was betrayed and banned both from the kingdom.

Aut loved her Prince and wanted to prove nothing was between her and Spry. So she went and lived in lands of her own, next to the Prince lands. Some followed her and soon realized the temperatures were becoming cooler in Aut’s lands. Spry also went to live in lands next to the Prince and there temperatures were also cooler.

As the years passed the Prince realized his mistake and asked Aut to come back. But she couldn’t live in his weather and couldn’t live her people. Still in love they decided to meet for one month every year, the only time they could be together.

People started missing the ice that preserved their food. They begged the Prince to make the Queen come back. The Prince accepted only if the Queen would take lands far from his.

He ordered his soldiers to take the ice block that imprisoned the Queen and before it melted completely he asked her if she agreed to the conditions. Crying for the loneliness she felt all those years she accepted and was given the lands next to Spry and Aut. Soon the ice started coming back again.

The rulers rarely met. Except for the Prince and Aut who loved each other. When the rulers died, they were buried in their lands to preserve their temperatures. Except for the Prince and Aut who were buried next to each other, in the borders.

The weather started changing. Now all lands were able to benefit from every temperature.

First came the sun of Prince Su.

Then Aut cool breeze.

Then the Queen’s Ice.

and lastly Spry warmness. And when the warmness reached its peak, it meant Prince’s Su sun was back.

The people thanked their rulers everyday and knew they were watching them from above.

 

The Singing Ghost

“And you believe what a three years old boy says?” Asked Elena frowning.

“I believe he could be a valid witness.” Insisted Adam. According to the boy, he saw the ghost and heard it singing nursery songs.

“He could believe anything,” Elena insisted. And she was willing to prove it. She knelt beside the little boy with a smile.

“You know David,” she said, “I heard ghosts love sweets and candies. You think the ghost was eating something when you saw it?”

David thought for a moment, then said “I think it was eating candies.” Elena looked at Adam rasing an eyebrow, then sighed. This is a waste of time she thought.

“It wasn’t eating candies, it was just carrying heads.” They all looked at the other boy in the room, much bigger than David, sitting on the desk coloring with his crayons.

“Ah,” Elena said sitting next to the boy, “Now this might be interesting. Tell us what did this … ghost do with the heads.”

The boy remained silent.

“Hello?” she insisted.

“You don’t know how to deal with kids, do you?” Adam sighed kneeling next to the boy.

“What is it that you are drawing?” he asked looking at the boy’s paper that showed only doodles and scribbles.

“A boat.”

“A boat That’s not a boat!” The boy, looked at him took him paper and crayons and moved to another table.

“You definitely know how to deal with kids Adam.” Elena remarked sarcastically.

Ryan went to the boy, looked at him and smiled.

“What’s your name?”

“Sam” the boy said without looking.

“Hi Sam, I’m Ryan  and he is my brother Adam and she is Miss Elena.” Ryan said pointing at each one respectively. “We want to know about the big heads, can you tell us please?”

Sam remained silent.

“Ok” he finally said, “but I want a lollipop.” He left his crayons and folded his arms.

Ryan smiled and nodded.

“The ghost came from outside with the big head and went upstairs. Then it came down again and went outside.”

“Did he have something else when he came down?” Elena asked taking notes in her leather note-book.

Sam shook his head.

“The ghost was singing.”

Singing, again? Thought Elena.

“What was it singing?” asked Ryan frowning.

“I don’t know the song yet. It is a new one Miss Kate is teaching us.”

Elena took notes. Miss Kate will have to answer some questions.