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Short stories (22-28) 🌿
The Track
September 16, 2024
Hundreds of people were travelling in the train. The train was jam packed with passengers. It was morning time. A mild cold breeze was blowing. The train was still quite far from the station. A shepherd was grazing his sheep at some distance from the track. The shepherd's eyes fell on the track which was broken to a large extent. The shepherd was an old man. His hair, beard and moustache had turned white. Without delaying, he ran towards the oncoming train. His breathing was getting fast. His whole body started aching due to fatigue. Now sunlight had started spreading all around. After some time, the shepherd reached quite far. The shepherd saw the oncoming train. The shepherd was wearing a red coloured towel. The shepherd, panting, stood on the track and waved his red towel. The train driver sensed the danger on seeing the red towel and applied emergency brakes. The shepherd moved away from the track. Sparks started coming out due to the dragging of the wheels of the train. After going some distance, the train stopped. Many people got out of the train. After some time, the shepherd reached there. A man got angry and slapped the shepherd. That man had to reach early due to some work. That man thought that this shepherd showed the red towel without any reason. The shepherd got slapped and went away from there without saying anything, taking his sheep. When many people walked some distance, they saw that the track was really broken. That man started regretting his mistake. It was afternoon. After a few days, the government honored the shepherd by giving him an award and that man also apologized to the shepherd.The Old House
September 17, 2024
Some children came out of the cinema hall after watching a movie. It was evening. Those children were going towards their home. The sky was cloudy. They were moving forward having fun. Cold winds were blowing. After some time, it started raining. To avoid getting wet, they came near an old house. That house was very old. Some time passed. But the rain was not stopping. Now it was night. The door of the house was open. They went inside the house. It was very dark inside. There was a sound of the door closing. As if someone had closed the door. The hearts of the children started beating loudly. It was not possible to see clearly in the dark. The children were locked in the house. Some murderer came running and kept attacking the children with a sharp knife. The screams of the children started echoing. One child ran. He started going upstairs through the stairs. The murderer also started following him. There was a weak glass window in the room upstairs. The child hit the glass window hard. The glass broke and the child fell down with a thud. A police jeep was passing by. Police officers heard the sound. The officers got out of the jeep and ran towards the child. The murderer was staring at the child from the window. The officers looked towards the window. The murderer hid. The officers called an ambulance and sent the child to the hospital. The officers went inside with lights. The floor of the house was red with blood. The dead bodies of the children were lying on the floor. The murderer started running away from there. The police officers fired bullets at him. But he escaped from there. The police officers started searching the entire city. The murderer hid in a very old house deep inside the forest nearby. He remained hidden there for two days. He started...