More Unfairy Tales: 5 more fairy tales retold (Carthick's Unfairy Tales Book 2) by T F Carthick

Author:T F Carthick [Carthick, T F]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-06-07T04:00:00+00:00

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Food! Finally! My wait was over. Food! After three days of starvation. Waiting for me at the other end of the cupboard door. All I had to do was reach out and grab it. Yes! I pounced at the door in eager anticipation. But something stopped me midflight. I hit the ground. My hunger had disappeared. All I felt was pain. Excruciating pain! Coursing through every nerve on my body! I could sense something warm and wet on the ground below me. It seemed to have started flowing from close to my torso and slowly spreading all over. I looked down. The whole floor was turning crimson red. It was blood! My blood! I would have fainted if my attention had not been drawn by a sudden whizzing sound close to me. I looked up just in time to catch a glint of metal. The dull blade of an axe. Hurling towards me. Was this the end?

I closed my eyes. A dismal howl escaped by throat. Soon the air was rented with blood curdling howls. But the howls seemed to be receding from me into a distance. They did not seem to be coming from my throat at all. In all this din, the pain seemed to have miraculously disappeared. Was this death? I fearfully opened my eyes. I was lying near some bushes. I looked around. There was no sign of any blood. Nor any axe. But the howl could still be heard. It was becoming feebler by the minute. It was emanating from the hut in front of me. Suddenly the howling stopped. I could hear some voices. It was that human hunter and the human girl. I quickly scampered behind the bushes.

Just in time. For the cruel form of the hunter emerged from the doorway. Soon, he was gone. I breathed a sigh of relief. I wondered what had happened to the girl. Once again, I heard sound of footsteps at the door of the cottage. This time it was the girl. It was good to see her safe and sound. I suddenly remembered I was still hungry. With the pain and fear gone, hunger was returning in all its force. This could not be death. One did not feel hunger in death. What had happened?

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