• A tooth breaks. A child becomes an orphan. A lost boy, wonder in a new world. As all this happen in a blink, a link of fate chains their stories into one.


    A young boy hopelessly wonders around, I’ve been lost for a few hours now, where am I, the boy thought. He looked in each of his directions; this place is so dark and glooming. The tall, oddly shape willow, looking trees cast their shadows, making the swamp appear darker, and the boy smaller. The dark green branches of the willow tree sway gently in the wind, back and forth, imitating arms grabbing the boy’s hair. Mysterious creatures in the bushes scurry away as the boy proceed.

    Then a large, dark bird with three eyes dived down clinching its sharp, bloody claws and opening it, ready to attack the boy; the bird screech a cold, high pitch sound. The boy ran up the slope desperately trying to escape, dodged the first attack. It swooped up paralleling with the slope. The boy looked over his shoulder, terrified. The bird whooshed through the air, making the trembling grass bowed as it moved closer and closer to the boy. Running down the hill now, the boy gains more momentum, but so did the bird. The boy shifted a little so the branch of the willow tree won’t hit him,”Ahh!” screamed the boy, the boy’s flesh tore apart as the birds clinch onto the his right shoulder. The willow tree lashed across the bird’s face making it let go, backing away.