Silent Screams

Caterpillars

"Bob, go kill the caterpillars. They are really damaging all the crops. At this point we will have nothing left to eat this year...", Mary shouted from the balcony of their two-storey, hay tinned house.

17-year-old Bob, lived with his mom Mary and there was no one except these two in the old house. The village of skylore was pretty rural and there were less than fifty people living who all depended on agriculture. Bob and his mom were living in one of the 15 houses of the village. Their house was made of stone and was quite old which aged up back to Bob's great grandfather's time. Bob's dad had died when there was a landslide in the village when bob was 7, and they were running their daily life depending on the food that Mary grew on their small land. But at the time of early July the caterpillars had grown to unbelievably large numbers and were damaging each and every crop that grew on the land. The market was far from the village and people couldn't afford pesticides either, so the only way left was to kill them by people themselves.

Bob headed towards the small piece of land that was adjacent to their small little house. He would drop the insects from leaves and step on them or push them with the sticks into the ground. A whole day would pass by, and Bob was enjoying it every day. He would count the number of caterpillars that he killed each day. He loved to make the dream of those little insects with a hope to turn into a beautiful butterfly remain trapped as dream forever. He felt proud each time he killed them more violently.

"The serial killer who killed lady Anatha of shivery town, Mr. Sam of shine city and Mrs. Zora of Willow wood has appeared again. He showed Infront of a lady walking on the Balow colony of southeast shivery, with a knife but he couldn't succeed as the lady escaped to a more crowded area faster. The lady reported that the murderer had a long scar of a cut or something like that on his hand and was masked up with a black covering. Police also reported that this killer has murdered those who thought murderers are evil... We prefer that you walk in groups while at night or even at daylight if you are walking somewhere deserted like the balow colony and the two-way of herdhouse. Further news will be reported after we get the information. Be safe.", Bob and Mary watched the news on their old television.

"The world is getting more of unsafe place. How evil are people turning out...", Mary sighed watching the news as she knitted the scarf which she was making for Bob.

"Killing humans...", Bob smirked lightly as he folded his sleeve to rub the long scar on his hand which had been there since the time, he took up a knife towards Lady Anatha but she had hit him back with a knife herself...

Looking at Mary he whispered to himself "My next target seems fun..."