Short Stories

Short Story No.5

A story I wrote in an exam paper. I also really don't like it and didn't find anything inspiring to write about.

Word Count - 323

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All the animals grazed lazily, scattered across the field. The others had been doing so for what seemed like years and years on end, yet they never seemed to question why that was all we did. Nor did they question when every four days someone was taken, we don't know where and we don't know why.

Out of the entire field the only ones to question it was my best friend Rose and I. then she got taken too. We don't know what happens when someone gets taken, we just know that you never hear about them or see them again.

So, this then led to me beginning to question everything after the departure of Rose. It led me to not eating as much as the other pigs, to be constantly on the lookout to figure out the order of when we would be forever taken.

However, I soon came to the conclusion that there was no sequence or order they took us in, they just took, no matter who we were.

One morning we were awoken by the deafening sound of thunder, spider webs of lighting shot down after every roll of thunder, as though it were aiming directly for us.

Then these tall, odd, monstrous beings began to climb over our fence. They wore hardened brown lumps on the lowest part of their bodies, their top halves covered in a layer of thin black material as if allowing them to blend into the luscious hedges behind them. These alien beings took everyone.

I no longer question why they took everyone; I just know that they are gone. Leaving me in a mask of confusion and anger.

If I'd figured out the way out the fields to start with I wouldn't have been left abandoned in the lifeless field, I used to call home.

Leaving me lost, forgotten, and abandoned.

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