Hello Everyone, @kingst here with the announcement for the STACH Short Story Contest #23.
What is a Short Story.
A short story is a story with a fully developed theme but significantly shorter and less elaborate than a novel. It makes use of plot, resonance, and other dynamic components to a far greater degree than is typical of an anecdote. You can read it in less than 90 seconds.
Contest Rules:
•Write a Short Story based on the topic that will be given every week.
•Write an Original Short Story (Plagiarism will be flagged and reported).
•The Story must contain no more than 199 words.
•One entry per user.
•Story should be pasted in the comment section below, no links.
•Contestants are permitted to post their stories in an article on their blog, so they also get upvotes from the @stach trail.
Winners Selection.
Winners will be selected based on the topic, story plot, number of words and delivery as determined by the selected Judge. One word above 199, disqualifies the entry.
Contest Topic.
Write a 199 words story based on A BLOOD RED SKY.
PRIZE.
FIVE winners will be selected for a share of the 15SBD. The story with the most interaction gets a 1SBD prize from @ejemai.
First Prize: ----------------------4SBD
Second Prize: ------------------3.5SBD
Third Prize: ---------------------3SBD
Fourth Prize: -------------------2.5SBD
Fifth Prize: ----------------------2SBD
Good luck guys!
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"Run Ada, Run!" was the last he said as the cursed bullets pierced his chest. I stood there frozen watching his lifeless body hit the ground. Everything seemingly stood still as more bullets flew past my face. I was lost in an oblivion of the event I yet didn't understand; in a moment that seemed eternal.
I crashed down besides my father's lifeless body as I stared at his open eyes. All around me the commotion continued, but I was in another world. Men with guns kept running past not caring to even look. I wanted them to see me, and maybe help me join Pa. Or maybe they didn't care anymore.
People kept dropping around me like birds in a hunt. All I could do was see for I deaf to the sound of their evil guns. In heaps bodies rose, slain be the enemies of truth with no remorse.
In what seemed like centuries, I sat there holding Pa's lifeless hand, getting soaked in the blood that flowed the streets. The blood of my brothers and countrymen.
Those who could fight for us were all gone, and all we could do was watch as they slay our people.
But we shall not forget how they tainted our soil with blood and colored our skies red.
A BLOOD RED SKY
For the first time, Mary saw the bloody sky at the age of 6, in full, just before the awakening. On that day, her father went down into the subway, and then an explosion followed.
Then the girl several times saw a bloody sky, already in reality. She suddenly lifted her head, and even the sky was clouded with flames. The sky was stained with blood before the death of her friend, in front of a serious trauma of a classmate ...
The girl was walking with her mother along the quay in Nice, when her head began to spin, and she saw bloody clouds coming down from the sky, and a truck was emerging from them.
Screaming, Mary forcefully tossed her mother aside, and took a step forward. And she squeezed her eyes, feeling the calm blue turn to replace the bloody rays.
Richy was not the superstitious type but it was hard for anyone not to after series of nightmares, he just had another. He reached for the remaining bottle of Sauvignon Blanc on the nightstand to calm his nerves.
He gulped a cup full of the wine and laid on his back reminiscing how a brilliant graduate of architecture like himself got mixed in life of crime. He wanted out but Emperor would have none of that, he has heard of how killed those that tried to leave. Richy was determined to escape to Ghana after the next 'operation' next Friday.
Chidi drove in like a Formula one driver. The cops standing outside became aware it was a robbery instantly. one was about to cock and raise his Ak49. Emperor shot him. The other two were also down in no time. Kelvin and Emperor were about to enter when shots started raining from everywhere and the two dropped dead immediately. Richy tried to reach the car but chidi zoomed off before he could. Lying in his own blood a moment later and gazing onto the sky. A blood red sky was the last thing he saw before it blurred out.
"Don't make me do something I will regret later bitch!"
Christy couldn't believe her own senses. Henry never used any harsh word on her not to talk of calling her a bitch. Though she had noticed something was amiss since last session after he was beaten up at a party.
"It is non of your business girl" he would answer anytime she asked what went down.
She had know Henry from Small. Their families are very close, which was why they couldn't define their relationship.
But She could not understand this new Henry ever since he started rolling with the FA guys...She wondered why Henry couldn't see they are trouble.
Christy couldn't concentrate on her revision. She hadn't see him in days. Missing this test would mean extra year. Call home was looking for his trouble. Then he walked in and sat with a straight face. She was interrupted from talking to him by the sound of guns from outside. Then commotion ensued. Founding courage to out of her hidden many minutes later, she found dead bodies and everywhere painted with blood...She was surrounded by her friends, she couldn't look. She looked up and saw a red blood sky.
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A legend which dates back to 1641 has it that a Dutch ship sank off the coast of the Cape of Good Hope. The Captain, a Dutch man named VanderDecken, was blind to the signals from the red blood skies raging with signs of a deadly storm. He only realized they have landed on the palms of a crazy storm when the lookout screamed out in terror.
The captain and his crew struggled for hours to get out of the storm. At a point it appeared they would make it. But then the reverse was the case when the ship collided against the treacherous rocks of the sea. The ship began to sink. As the ship plunged downwards, Captain VanderDecken knew that death was approaching. He was afraid to die, thus screamed out a curse: “I WILL round this Cape even if I have to sail unendingly!”
Till this day, whenever a storm strikes off the Cape of Good Hope, the ghostly presence of the Dutch Captain appears through the eye of the storm as a blood red imagery of a ship and its captain. Whoever beholds this blood red imagery in the sky will die a terrible death.
It was 3am I had to hurry before dawn, to evacuate my family. The war had begun, just a few hours before ...
The plane where the vice-president of the US was traveling was shot down by terrorists of Russian and North Korean origin. The repercussions of the allied and western countries were immediate.
The United States attacked with all its force the countries responsible for the events, and they responded. In less than 12 hours, World War III was unleashed.
He drove like crazy, through the zigzag curves of the mountains, to go to the city. I am a geologist and I was in the mountains, studying caves whose walls grew rare minerals.
When I left the mountains, it began to dawn and at last I see the bridge that connects me with the road that leads to the city. When crossing it, he observed with horror, as in the distance a giant mushroom transforms the sky into " A BLOOD RED SKY. ..." In a second I realize that I lost everything I loved, and it is the beginning of the apocalypse.
That evening, grandfather took his grand son on a walk by the sea shore.
"i have sailed several times and wrecked my ship because I was not minded of the signals", he said. "Look", pointing upwards, "a red blood sky is the sailors compass: red sky at night, sailors delight. Red sky in the morning, sailors take warning".
"But grandpa", his 12years old son replied, "I am not a sailor why are you telling me this?".
Still pressing further, he said, "life may sometimes give you warning signals. Before it rained, ants moved to higher ground, cos lay down, pine opened up, and even the frogs croaked more frequently. You must keep your ears and eyes open to hear and understand the time you are in lest you end up with an amputated leg like mine".
He son hearing those words listened with keen interest. "my son always look and look again before you leap. A red blood in the sky is not just a mere artistic display of dexterity by the hand that holds it. Every symbol and every signal has its implications, do not take them for granted".
"It is an omen," the old man said, pointing at the sky. Arbin didn't like the colour either. Redder than usual, it looked as if someone had taken a knife to the clouds and sliced them open. Blood oozed from the open wound and dripped upon the earth, turning the cracked barren soil around them burnt orange. "If we don't leave," the old man continued. "We will be punished by the Protector." Arbin swallowed. If the Protector turned upon them they were surely doomed. But to leave? But where would they go? This had been their home for as long as he remembered. It was true, the earth was dry. Even the goats struggled to find food. "But where shall we go, Grandfather?" he asked. The old man shrugged. "I don't know, boy. We must follow the path of the old river. Perhaps we will find water. Perhaps, not. But if we do not go soon, it will be our blood that rains upon the earth. The mud will be thick with it. Mark my words." Arbin's mother shook her head. “Stop scaring the boy, father,” she says. “I have seen the forecast on my iPhone. It rains tomorrow.”
The Red Night
Hidden among the trees of a yellow building with large windows Michael watched the party organized by the UCLA fraternity, only attended by the most successful and beautiful students of the university, he could not contain the anger and the rejection he felt for not being invited, since he was a child that feeling had been chasing him and he was tired of being mocked.
He waited for the party to end and little by little his anger grew, a voice inside his head told him that the time for revenge had come, that all those girls who had made him feel that way would pay for their mistakes. He entered the fraternity and seeing a group of girls gathered talking in a corner of the room he pulled his gun and the shooting began, one by one they fell into a pool of blood, the screams were heartbreaking and Miguel as if waking up from a dream to see what he had done pulled the trigger directly to his own head.
The next day the headlines in the newspapers read: The night that the sky turned red.
Many years ago in my teenage years, I had a group of friends and we liked to go camping every weekend to the Grand Canyon, we brought food and lots of alcohol. One night, being there, just after assembling the tents and emptying two bottles of vodka in the process, we saw in the sky a set of festellos, we thought that they were shooting stars and we even joked about the desires that would be granted to us. We continued on our own, Carlos turned on his battery radio, we had a lot of fun when we heard a horrible rumble and I swear to God that when I looked up I saw how the sky turned a deep red. Everything happened in a matter of seconds, the atmosphere became tense and my friends panicked. It started to rain, a heavy red rain
The sky bled pitifully, we ran to take refuge in one of the tents and we began to pray, two hours later the storm seemed to have ceased, we left our shelter and everything was dry, the starry sky above our heads seemed to mock us. We never really knew what happened.
Mr Jones, a very good friend of mine, narrated this scary experience to me as he pointed me to the sudden change in the colour of the sky; it started turning blood red and oozed out strange feelings of horror and fright. He explained it was a bad omen stating how terrible his last experience of it was.
“I was driving home late one night when a pretty girl in a white dress hitchhiked me. The girl was very nice and such a great conversationalist. As we drove close to the St. Lukes cemetery, there was a sudden change in the colour of the sky as is happening now. This girl pointed up calling my attention to it. I looked up and felt a weird spasm through my body. As I turned to share my sudden experience with her, she had disappeared. I was utterly terrified. I drove as fast as I could to get away from the vicinity of the cemetery. The whole occurrence made me lose control over the vehicle only to wake up the next morning on the hospital bed; they said I collided against a brick wall.”
I wondered what this one would bring about.
We tried to escape from the city when we saw on the news that a missile was being directed at us. The streets were clogged but we managed to drive until about 25 km. The car had stopped on the road when climbing the hill and on the edge of a precipice.
The landscape was like a surreal sunset. An incandescent oval covered the city. The red clouds seemed to tear the orange sky. The fire danced in the air and toppled the towers. We were stunned.
I looked up and the rider on the horse made me tremble even more as he shed the blood on the ground and waters after the sound trumpet. I closed my eyes praying, hoping that this time God would listen to me. Although I think it's too late.
Bloody Red Sky
For Carlos, prison is a torment, he has not seen his family again. He plans to escape, kill the guards when they reach his cell and leave. When the guards arrive, the fight begins, the cell accidentally closes again, he stabs the jailers with the knife and Carlos suddenly falls to the ground, a strange feeling invad-ing his mind. He gets up, takes the keys and goes out, he looks around and is surprised to not see anyone, he runs to the exit, he is already out of prison.
Carlos runs home, suddenly feeling a void in his stomach, losing the air in his lungs he looks at the sky and sees that it begins to change from a crimson color to an intense red. The shouts of the guards on the other side of the cell tell Carlos to open the door, Carlos just looks at the ceiling of his blood-stained cell, beside him lie the two dead guards. He tries to get up and then he hears the sound of three shots, the last thing he saw in his mind was that the sky was getting redder, bloodier.
Invasión a la tranquilidad
A Blood Red Sky
Who would ever think this day would come to an end. It all started when I woke up this morning, heard my mom calling me from the backyard. I rushed to find out why she was calling, and it was to help her fetch water from the stream.
So I left for the stream with my friend Ijeoma. On our way to the stream, we saw people running, shouting, crying. We were confused and scared at the same time.
Then I stopped one of the girls running and asked what was happening. She responded by saying that the stream had dried up. That does not make any sense, it has never happened. So I asked Ijeoma to join me so we can check it out ourselves.
We got there and of a truth it was dried up. What are we going to do? I asked Ijeoma. No response from her but the only logical thing to do is to go home, right?
On our way back home the weather changed, everywhere was dark and behold the sky the was red.
Then I ran, held my mom so tight and prayed for the day to come to an end.
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Her heart seemed to want to break her chest.
She ran up the stairs, listening to the footsteps of her captors, pursued by the sound of their thick and heartless voices.
The air escaped in each step and while climbing that infinite tower, between the cracked holes in the walls, a red sky was drawn in the distance. That sky claimed she as if every second of life belonged to someone else.
As she climbed up those stairs, she saw red lines, like strings on a harp, in each opening of the concrete. Each step brought her closer to the end, to the farewell of that world full of hatred and blood.
She reached the terrace without air, without strength, but determined. The breeze hit her face but she didn't care.
She ran forward, toward the red sky, as red as the blood in her veins, as red as life, as red as the suicidal jump she understood was her only way out.
One step took her to that terrace, but a life full of suffering pushed her to use the ink of her blood to dye the sky.
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It was a summer night, when Edison decides to walk the streets of the neighborhood. Suddenly! He hears screams around him and when he realizes it is a young woman lying on the pavement. He runs quickly to see what happened to him and he loads it to the front of his home. The young woman was bleeding "Like a sky red with blood". Confused by not knowing what was wrong, the young girl wakes up and asks for help with a trembling voice. He had fainted, hitting the road and that was why he had those blows on his head. In an Angel Edison had become without him knowing. He goes to the hospital with the young woman named Isabel and manages to save her from the dangers of the night.
Edison's air had become another anecdote knowing the love of his life. Isabel in honor of having "saved his life" Edison invited him to eat.
As time passed, they decided to give themselves the opportunity to get to know each other and start a relationship. Isabel gets pregnant and they get tired living a red night of passion in the midst of circumstances rising from the ashes. Edison's confidence recovered her with her new red love.
Revolution time
His fate is cast between penury and desolation; from that cold prison she was taken out yearning for freedom, her past remembered between shouts, in the trial with a pale face and a weary figure, there was nothing left in the antechamber of death; she is accused, booed and insulted, they called she it "the leech"; her she was hated by a people that with hunger and misery did not forgive.
In the streets the crowd waited for her with shouts and insults, while with despair they welcomed her, Maria Josefina with her hands tied the guillotine in the square the executioner was waiting for her and at the cry of "Live the republic", the people with applause celebrating the tragedy. The queen posing her head before all those present eager that the cruel guillotine cut his neck; the head of that woman rolled all over the square, those last minutes the brave Maria Josefina shouted: - I will look at the sky red as blood, that is the blood that will come out of me like the strength of a river. all of you will witness my misfortune, but I I will be his eternal curse.
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One day at eleven o'clock at night, I took a few minutes to think about the love of my life called Aaron. I got up from my bed and in the heat of the room I looked out the window to observe the stars. I began to cry because I was submerged by the sorrows of my boyfriend who had gone away from me to live in another country. Suddenly my surprise is that the sky between the constellations that was observed, change color to red. It was no longer a sky in the midst of darkness, but "A sky red with blood." I got so scared that I started screaming and the neighbor next to my house came out when I heard the screams and when I realized it was very handsome. We stared and the attraction arose immediately. He told me to calm down that it was normal and despite the circumstances that I was living, I met another person who gave hope to my destroyed heart. He gave me a cup of coffee and we sat on the grass calming my terrified nerves. Between rizas and alegrías I went to sleep forgetting what happened.
Tyler never believed werewolves exist beyond the movie world, he never believed that humans could transform into beasts that run on four legs and tear humans apart.
He was only 5years old when he lost his mother, 15 years later he doesn't still know what caused the proposed death or disappearance of his mother.
He got tired of asking and decided to go to the said spot his mother was said to be seen last.
He packed his bags, and began his journey into the woods without informing his Dad.
Tyler being a tall and well framed young man had gauged himself for danger because he planned to stay as long as he would till he gets a clue of what happened to the woman that brought him to the world.
He stayed in the woods for a fortnight peacefully. Suddenly strange things started happening, he began to hear footsteps without seeing anyone.
The night of the Full moon was here he remembered and this made him recall all he has heard about the woods.
The night came, the sky was Blood red he got scared little did he know his mum is an Alpha of a werewolf pack
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The carmine sun blazed its fiery fury on the little town of Argut, strangely casting an ominous feeling of despair on whomever its rays fell upon. And so while the argutians noticed the unusual colour and intensity of the sun, nor the blood red sky. No one noticed the effect it was having on them. For instance, Nima, the town jester sat taciturnly under the frangipani tree in the market square, counting the number of leaves that fell to the ground and when asked by the now glum children of the town, to say a story to them, told the saddest tale ever heard that left all of them, himself included, teary faced.
Little did they know, that each time a tear dropped and the cauldron was stirred, a sad thought was recollected in the minds of those who stood under the days light, and even if none existed in their memory or subconscious, one was incited until the ideated, was believed. Making them sadder and sadder as the day passed.
The stirrer, was none other than the village wizard.
A man thought only to exist in folklores, told by elders trying to scare little children into acting right.
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It was a beautiful sunrise, where Mr. Jacinto woke up and was contemplating the bright sun, the singing of the jays and turpiales, when he suddenly observed a phenomenon in the sky. At the same time the birds stopped singing and everything was silent. Jacinto on the other hand was dismayed by what his eyes saw. For the sky changed color suddenly, it seemed a bloody sky, Hyacinth very scared began to scream The demons are loose!
The reality was different, it was a natural eclipse that was happening, and in effect the sky gradually changed color. All the animals were collected to their nests, like people to their humble homes, thinking that it was a curse or something catastrophic since the sky seemed to cry with blood. For that reason everyone had to stay in their homes to protect themselves, but it took just over 3 hours for everything to return to normal and experts in the field reported that it was a phenomenon never before seen.
A hurried flight.
Appearance in the Firmamento
Sitting as always contemplating a starry sky and a beautiful Lucero that did not stop shining something strange happened. A huge ball of fire was observed in the Twilight, after appearing a range of colors in the sky came a great darkness the moon stopped Shining the Stars hid behind the clouds that as the soldier's march began to parade one after another. That beautiful and clear sky disappeared and became red as blood, the leafy trees shake as they precede a storm the night, was darker than normal, I was surprised by this phenomenon never before seen by my eyes. Suddenly, the Earth passed close to its orbital route and the tail of a comet could be observed more clearly, my eyes did not stop seeing this natural phenomenon that left me completely spellbound. As soon as that Celestial appearance finished, everything returned to normal. That night nobody slept many relatives and friends who got badly embraced and cried of that appearance in the sky.
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What the war leaves
Many years ago in Japan many battles took place and all those battles are historical like the one that the Japanese were against the Americans that was one of the worst wars in the world that war left the bloodied skies and many families in disrepair one of those family was mine because I participated in that war my great grandfather William Rangel was 20 years old when he was recruited he already had a son my grandfather visa Roger Rangel my great grandfather fought against the Japanese at sea and in the air he died because of bombings in the Pacific Americans triumphed thanks to their resistance but that war took many lives and put the bloody skies and not only this war all the wars in the world have put the bloody skies and taking away many lives.
Michael raced down from the Crystal City, his wings spread full length behind him, occasionally fluttering here and there to make adjustments to his velocity as he hurtled through space.
Following quickly was the morning star, his great sword thrust out in front of him as he chased Michael. Michael glanced back at Lucifer's approaching form. He took one look at the bundle in his arms and willed himself to go faster.
As he reached the outer atmosphere of the earth's surface, he felt a hand on his ankle as he was pulled back roughly. In that split second, he blessed the bundle in his arms and dropped it into the atmosphere as the pull flung him backwards. He recovered quickly and engaged the morning star, lightning strikes shaking the earth as their swords met.
After a particularly loud explosion and a dying scream from Michael, the bundle and the baby in it began to free fall, spinning haphazardly under a rapidly reddening sky.
And above the roar of thunder, a still voice could be heard:
"And the sky will turn red when you see the stars fall like angels from heaven. This is the first sign"
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Ada grew up to be a beautiful girl: The delight of her widowed mum: Mrs. Ujunwa and the desire of people. But on getting to the campus there was a switch of the kind of life she lived, like a bird that was let loose
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She mingled with friends that her mum had warned her not to. Two weeks to her second semester exam in the university, she became pregnant and the only way to save the disgrace she had brought to her mum was to do an abortion.
In a bid to abort the pregnancy, it resulted in several days bleeding and she was taken to the school clinic and the news got to her mum who left home immediately to visit her daughter.
Her tears knew no bound as she saw her daughter in a serious state of coma.
Mrs. Ujunwa: Doctor, please how is my daughter now?
Dr. Evelyn: hmmmmm, I am really sorry, we couldn’t help the situation properly, her womb has being damaged.
Mrs Ujunwa went blank, she could neither cry nor laugh, it was indeed a blood red sky for her as her feeling was a mixture of fear, anger and tears.
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A BLOOD RED SKY | STACH 199 WORDS STORY
“Sure a bloody red sky, inn’it?,” the old shepherd said. “Bad weather is coming.”
“How do you know that, grandfather?” The girl asked.
“Every sailor knows it to be true – even Jesus knew it was true. A red sky in the morning is bad news.”
“But surely, that’s just a philosophy of negativity?” The girl challenged. “Life is what you make of it.”
“Not for me. For me, it is what it is… this red sky tells me there’s a storm coming and with ewes lambing, it could make the difference between lambs that make it and lambs that don’t,” the old man taught. “Tell me how that is a ‘philosophy of negativity’.”
“I guess you just have to figure out how to best deal with what Nature throws at you,” the girl concluded.
“You have to ‘hope for the best and work for the rest,’” the old man shared with a nod.
“Teach me how,” the girl said.
He smiled and nodded. “I’ll make a shepherd out of you yet!”
They sat in silence for a few minutes, watching the sun rise above the horizon at last.
“Sure a bloody red sky, inn’it?” the girl said.
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I was going at full speed with my motorcycle on the highway, I started to accelerate more and more, I dodged the cars and I felt like an innocent child, who does not fear anything because he does not see the danger of his actions. A super closed curve was approaching and according to my calculations, I did not have enough time to slow down and resort to the most important decision. I decided to continue and try to use a board very similar to a ramp, which was on the edge of the sidewalk and that's how it happened. Once in the air I closed my watery eyes, and many moments crossed my mind. After a while, there was only a chilling silence, as I opened my eyes I thought quickly if I was in heaven or in hell, but I was wondering, a red sky? Well that color was the one I saw, I get up quickly and it was my favorite red sheet in my face, I had been dreaming. Hahaha
Blood always runs
The flow of blood through our body is what keeps us alive. Our heart pumps without ceasing. Stop would be a mistake faltal.
Every day there is more blood in the streets, they dye clothes, weapons and even the soul, but as we can avoid death. She never sleeps, because the man is responsible for giving her work, either through jealousy or greed, blood is always present in the concrete jungle. Every day the man gets up and behaves like a wild beast looking for someone to devour, but in the concrete jungle there is no prey they are all hunters
Is that a rainbow glow on the sky, but why is it only in red! Mary said to his sister.
Nope, That's the bloody red sky phenomenom Anna replied.
Why is it only in the red? Mary asked.
Actually, my dear Mary! Scientifically, I didn't know why those phenomenom appeared! But in the myths of our people that caused by the nature respond to the things happened nowadays, might be in our place, or in the other side world. It's like the bloody tragedy, war, crime, that made people as victims. So, thats why the nature responded through the shaped of the bloody red sky as the grieve as react to the world now. Anna replied
Yup, I got it anna, thanks for that Mary responded.
Also, Additionally as the phenomenom exposed years ago about the sounded hum on the sky in european & another continents, this is a nature responding to the world, we never really know! Whether its real as it be or there are some scientifics explanations. But when we see through the world situation & issues now, its called the end of day sign was closed by. Anna explained
OMG, Is that true…? Mary shocked!
A BLOOD RED SKY
It was a rural area where the inhabitants had to fulfill agricultural quotas almost impossible to pay established by the government. Karla and Rossi were prisoners in a field, the only thing that kept them alive was the idea of escape. They had been locked up for years in prison, life there was unbearable and the work was inhuman, a strong friendship between them is what makes them endure those difficult times. It was in Greece, the prisoners were subjected to extreme cold temperatures, working long hours to get some food.
One afternoon during the work day Rossi manages to get lost and find herself among the forest, a long way started, evading men who were looking for her, however he manages to reach a remote village where he is pleasantly welcomed by an old man and his daughter.
Rossi promised Karla that she would return for her. The mysterious old man had ancestral psychic powers and harbored people who were also prisoners. In this way, I am able to create, together with everyone, a protective network for former prisoners. They were so united and they became so strong that they achieved the freedom of almost everyone among them Karla.
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Mum was gonna travel for a month cos she had work to do in another state, she packed up her bags and repeated these words severely
We weren't used to staying alone cos mum has always been with us since Dad passed away 3years ago.
The day Dad died is the only day whose event I can recall like it was just yesterday.
Incidentally, he left us to the airport to travel out too, after having breakfast, we went together happily sharing some stories with each other while in the car.
Dad wasn't so happy he was leaving his children but he was sure mum would take care of us till he returned.
The sad event occurred when the plane took off, not up to 30killometres from us and exploded in mid-air.
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It was like a dream or a movie but till today, I keep replaying this sad movie in my mind and wishing we could have prevented that day from occurring in our life.
This wouldn't stop mum from travelling cos she had to make ends meet right?.
We only prayed that we never see such blood red sky
They ran home in a rush, panting heavily as though they were under pursuit by someone. Their father picked a short gun and ran out to defend his daughters only to discover nothing trailed them. The whole house inquired in annoyance why they put everyone in such suspense when nothing was pursuing them.
In self defense, they began to explain: "we were not joking, we actually saw something". "We went to the house of the old woman which everyone talked about. As we stood, the whole place seemed haunted, but we couldn't resist the temptation of having the candy bars the woman gave out. Candy bars that weighed at least 11 pounds each. We then walked into the house. A small old woman opened the door and greeted us with a grin. She was toothless. Behind her, in the dark corridor, was a black cat. It stared at us as we received the candy bars. We thanked the old lady for being generous and started walking home.
Suddenly, we heard a roar, the air around us began to whirl. Birds of prey filled the sky which had turned blood red along with the other events. We were terrified, dropped the candy bars as we ran for safety. The minute we dropped the candy bars, a black panther showed up from the blood red shadows and picked them up."
The whole family blamed them for their experience.
Thursday, as many other days, started boring. I did the usual in the morning, whilst I prepared for work. I kissed my girlfriend on her forehead as I went out.
Suddenly, I heard a loud whoosh and the very earth upon which I stood shook and I fell down. I tried finding my balance, when the second one hit and I hit my face on a nearby pole.
I wake up with blood dripping down my face.
I ran to the next street and I see broken houses, burnt cars, blood running down the road and dead bodies on the ground.
I couldn't believe my eyes, until I saw a few guys and I ran towards them. My feet stopped when I saw that these men wore uniforms and carried guns. When I realised what was happening, I quickly jumped behind a fallen tree and I feigned dead.
When I felt I could stand up, I started scouting for refuges, which was around the time I saw a stream; a bloodied stream with the reflection of a blood red sky.
Jafar was confined into a magical lamp because of his evil inclination. While in the lamp, he swore revenge at Sinbad who had bound him with the curse. As time passed, Sinbad was to become the son-in-law of the king, Sultan Markarfi. While the preparation was underway, a marauding band attacked the city and stole from the king’s vault an enormous amount of gold. Sinbad had to pursue the band and retrieved the gold, one of the thieves in a bid to escape ran into a cave and found the lamp. He was happy to find a lamp that had a genie in it, believing that all his wish would come true. But Jafar deceived him and sent him to the desert to die. Jafar managed to find his way to the city and unleashed the power of a genie on the land making the sky blood red. Sinbad was captured and the freed genie Aserta was no match for Jafar. But with the help of the Sedina, Sinbad’s bride to be and his flying carpet, they were able to outwit Jafar and sent him back into the lamp ending his evil dominance.
I couldn't believe that I was at the center of a reckless riot. Barely an hour ago, I was headed for the cyber cafe to post my already written blog post against domestic violence and rioting on the steemit platform.
My attention was drawn back to my immediate surrounding as bullets started flying around, blood flowing on the ground and people were crying and running towards safety. The cloud slowly turned dark, like it was about to rain, but there was no sign of a rain drop, no storm, nothing.
The sky was now turning red, as blood flooded out of people and filled the street and walls. I thought of a simple sentence. A Blood Red Sky. All I could remember was the movie I watched several years back, only in the movie, it was talking about how powerful the human mind could be, not about deaths and riots.
As I headed back for the cyber cafe, I had seen enough to be able to make a good post regarding the dangers of rioting and domestic violence on steemit.
Everything was red. Five year old Syrian Sara stood there silently gazing at the blood oozing from her mother's wound.
That morning Sara had woken up in her mother's arm. After breakfast, her mother played with her and her little brother in the courtyard. Sara was happy. She adored her mother as she was the only ray of hope to her. Her father had already died in an accident a year back.
It was 5 pm and she, along with her brother, was playing when suddenly her mother screamed asking them to come inside; the bombardment had started again. Sara quickly grabbed her brother's hand and ran inside. Everyone was running, screaming and hiding. Suddenly a huge blast was heard. All she could see was dust, blood and rubble. She tried getting up but her eyes were dusty and she couldn't see. Amongst all cries she could clearly recognize her mother's voice, “Sara! Sara!” She quickly got some strength and ran towards the voice, only to find her mother lying in a pool of blood. She grasped her last breath as she saw Sara coming towards her......and there stood Sara silently ......no doubt the sky was blood red.
The rainbow patch in the sky blended with the red blood sky in such a way that seemed very aesthetic. Though a scary sight, as Michael and John recalled bedtime stories their mother told them about ghostly manifestations under the cover of a red blood sky, the blend with the rainbow made it seem less of a horror and more of a natural artistry.
John the younger brother was really terrified, but Michael seemed much braver and in a bid to distract the frightened brother from the entire sight, requested for a hide and seek game.
“Ready or not I’m coming,” cried Michael and off he went looking for John who took first turn. He looked in all the usual places, but he couldn’t find him. The apartment was eerily silent.
Then he heard sound coming from the wardrobe. Opening the door, Michael tried putting his hand out into the mass of clothing to feel for his little brother when a small, white, icy cold hand came out, grabbed his wrist, and tried to pull him into the closet.
So the bed time stories were true, they chanted in horror as they narrated the rest of their ordeal.
My Blood Red Sky
The sky turning red is not something that happens often. I knew seeing one this year was a good sign. I wanted nothing else but sharing the moment with the love of my life, Maria. I went to her house to call her out so we could experience the the lovely red sky together.
And to my greatest surprise, she was with another guy. My romantic red sky turned into a bloody red sky.
A BLOOD RED SKY
As a little child
I love to play under a clear blue sky
For the blue sky is so beautiful and pleasant to behold.
On a faithful day as i played under the blue sky, night time approached and the sunset over me, gradually the blue sky turned red. As red as the blood, fear griped my heart, so i screamed and cried. Then my father walked up to me and said why cry my son?
I said to him the sky as turned blood red. A blood red sky is over me and it is terrifying,
So my father said fear not my son for A Blood Red Sky at night means there will be a good weather tomorrow and A Blood Red Sky in the morning mean the rest of the day will be stormy.
So i wiped my tears and fears away and smile for i will be able to play under the blue sky tomorrow. For a blood red sky at night is a good sign for tomorrow.
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It was on Saturday morning, sweating from the community service in school. Suddenly, everywhere became dark and red. I looked up to find the sky thick and bloody. I thought to myself, this could be the end of the world as we know. "Bro, shut your eyes, you don't look at a blood red sky" said my best friend with his eyes closed and his feet shaking.
"Lord, please forgive me, I don't wanna go to hell, pls let me be among those that will be taken up to you if today is the day" I prayed silently while still looking up, don't know maybe to check for any bright light that will come from heaven.
"Hey Dude, wake up the lecturer is in the class and he is looking at you" my friend shouted, tapping on my desk. With a sign of relief I thought to myself "Thank God it was all in my dream".
The lecturer still looking at me, called me up to come and stand in front of the class so as to prevent the sleep. But I was happy to stand for as long, knowing that a blood red sky was just a dream.
A BLOOD RED SKY
The day had been long foretold. An ancient prophecy that struck grave fear in the hearts of elders, but 'twas a long time ago and as the ages went by the prophecy watered down, became more of a myth.
My people are no longer as traditional as they once were. The sky that morning wasn’t the usual blue, gradually it morphed into something grave. No one seemed to mind or think much of it tagging it a phenomenon. The blood red sky was no ordinary weather change but a warning sign of the terrors to come. The spirit of the lord of chaos was finally free from his prison to roam the world bringing nothing but death.
I tried, really I did, I tried to warn them to stay indoors and lock every window and circle their homes with blood. I seemed crazy and paranoid as I locked my doors and windows and covered my home with the blood of goats before the night and its terrors befell us.
The screams did not stop till dawn.