Friday, January 18, 2008

Souls Of The River


Year 1458. All started in a small town of China, a happy and normal family used to live near by the river in which they fished to sell, so they can live of that. When the sun rised all of the 4 members of the family went out to do they work and when the sun set, they counted the fish they got, and went to sell them. They made more money than the other fishermen. Everything was normal, but one of the fisherman was starting to feel anoyed by them, since he did not get to make as much income as they did. As the time went by, problems came between both of them. The fisherman wanted the river only for him, so he could get as much fish as he can to sell and to make a lot of money. He decided to make a plan to make dessapear every one. Days went by, and he never returned to the river, all the other fishermen, asked where he could of be, but no one payed much attention. The water and the fish were always fresh and clean and the people drank of it, and eat the fish. Suddendly one by one started to feel sick, and in about 4 days, the first death arrived to the town. The 4 members of the family did not know what to do, they felt sick, too. they were afraid of dying, the water was toxic, the fisherman had poissoned the river.


One of those dark nights, the fisherman came to their house, slowly entered a wide open window, he slowly walked along the hall, and one of the members of the family, felt something, but he thought that it was the wind, again the same noise of footsteps in the floor, the wood crushed, all of them woke up, and went out of the room, to see what was happening, the killer was sitting on a small chair, ready to aim and shot his target, when all the 4 people came out saw him, and were shocked, they stand still, staring at the gun, the fisherman finally said "I told you, to go away from that river", draw out a gun fully charged, and shot all 4 of them. He did not care, people heard the shots but they never thought that it was a gun, they thought that they were fireworks. He had his job done, and was happy, he showed sad so nobody would notice that he was the killer. The city turned in a city of blood, he became a serial killer, he also killed the other fishermen. one by one so there would be no clue. He strangled some of them, and shot the others. The spirits of the people started to appear in the town, they were unhappy souls living in the Earth, they could not die in peace. The fisherman who killed them, could not live in peace never again, he got bad luck in everything he did, no fish, no money, lost his friends, and became paranoic, he started to see faces, and things that noone else saw. He became nuts, until, he was out of his mind, he did not know were he was neither who he was, the spirits made him to lose his mind, that was the revenge of the souls of the river.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hi Jose! I enjoyed reading your scary story, the details you give are amazing and it made me feel a part of the town. I like the ending, too. It's nice how you turn the story's bad guy into a victim. He got what he deserved. Good job!