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The Rendering - Ch. 1

Chapter One ‘Hold it!’ the man dressed in the shady clothes with a hood over his head said. The little boy turned around and when he saw him stood still. The shady man walked up to the little boy. ‘Do you want a candy?’ he asked. The boy shook his head profusely. ‘Then give me back my damn disc!’ he yelled. The scared child dumped the disc onto the ground and took off. The pissed off shady man with a hood over his head decided to give chase and easily caught hold of the kid. ‘Aaah! Let me go!!!’ the poor boy yelled. With an evil laugh the man threw him over the fence and into the river. The boy shrieked in shock at the freezing water and quickly waded over to the other side. ‘That will teach you!’ he yelled across to him. The little boy quickly got out and ran away crying. ‘I suppose you’re always like that with children.’ A man behind him said.   ‘Kid got what he deserved’, he replied, turning to him and studying this stranger. ‘Well, are we going to conduct business?’...

The Hare Who Looked At The Stars

He walked past the meadow, into the woods. The birds told him to go there, although he was doubtful. The setting sun coloured the valley walls around him a bright red and he counted one, two, sixty waterfalls. Why this place? He wondered. A swallow flew past and told him to keep going. Walking on he deftly stepped past the broken branches and a few footsteps later, he supposed he reached the place. It was a small burrow in the ground, underneath a huge tree root. Dead leaves covered more than half the entrance and he wondered if he had come to the right place. A little rabbit with dark grey fur peered out. Hello? He said hoping he was not disturbing it. Slowly the rabbit trudged out cautions yet curious. You wanted to hear a story? The rabbit whispered. He nodded his head, bent down and looked into its eyes. I do not remember much; only what my ancestors told me, said the rabbit. Go on. His name no one knows. Perhaps he never had one. But we called him the Hare, for that was what he wa...