“Make love,
not war.”
Genghis Khan*
#quote
Today I
communicated with the spirits. They told me we should stop calling.
Anyway onto the flash fiction!
The World
Beyond The Cage
A linage of a
rare species of rat lived in a zoo. Their striped fur had a beautiful
mix of sky-blue and cloud-white spots made their species be nicknamed
the the Sky Rats.
Fluffy, the
youngest, with the most rigid tail and biggest eyes of all kids asked
his parents, “What's the outside of the walls like? Beyond the
rooms and the zoo?”
His parents
looked at each other. The father honestly replied, “We don't know
son. Our family has lived here for generations. Some of the walls
outside the cage have pictures.”
A mother of a
different family living in the same cage added, “Those pictures do
look amazing. I often stare at them when I nest on the tree in our
cage.” One trait of the Sky Rat species is that different families
blended with each other and shared territory instead of fighting over
it. Unusual considering many animals fight with others of the same
species for territory.
Fangs, one of
the eldest children proclaimed, “I'd love to explore that world.”
A zoo keeper
then opened the cage. The rats gathered as often she would give them
food. But at this moment she was adding two four rats. A mother,
father, and their two sons. Because of the fact that Sky Rats bring
others into their groups easily the zoo figured the wild ones would
be able to mix with the ones bred in captivity. At least, that was
the experiment.
Fluffy then
yelled, “They, they're from the outside.”
The four rats
scrambled into the cage and began muttering. “Where are we? Where's
the nest? Where's the nest? Where's the nest? Are there holes to hide
in?” They looked up panicked. “Hawks! Hawks! Look for hawks! You,
you, you all have nests! Right? Let us join you! We must hide from
the hawks.”
Fluffy then
looked at his family and the others native to the cage and said to
them, “Maybe we shouldn't go outside the cage.”
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