A Hot Night in the Woods
by gwaithdu
Copyright© 2010 by gwaithdu
General Story: A tongue in cheek little tale. To say more would spoil it.
Tags: Humor
There I was, a 9 year old boy, surrounded by all these trees - I had never seen so many trees in my life before, having grown up in a large town. I come from a
large family, being the middle child of seven, and I had nearly always been within at least earshot of my brothers and sisters, so I found it very scary to
be on my own.
All I remember is getting up in the middle of the night, and climbing out through the bedroom window, climbing down the drainpipe, and walking for a long
time, until no houses were around me. Why I did this I do not know, I just had this feeling that I needed to be away from people, especially my family. That alone surprised me as we were a happy bunch, and I had no bad feelings towards my parents or any of my brothers and sisters.
As I wandered through the forest, having by now guessed that is where I must be, I could hear the birds chirping sleepily in the trees, and the animals rustling through the layers of leaves on the ground. Leaves on the ground in spring? -
What was happening? What was going on? Where had the time flown? In fact, where on earth was I?
I wandered on, along what seemed to be a path - the moon was shining brightly, so I could just about see my way. Then I heard a loud noise, as if a huge animal was pushing its way through the undergrowth, and then could hear a snorting sound, and I saw a faint glow. As if this was not enough to scare me I saw faint tendrils of smoke coming from behind a bush up ahead.
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