Pankaj's Short Stories

The Tragedy 🌿

Today Adolf killed two rats by drowning them in water. Some day, he poured oil on the stairs and made one of his family members fall. Sometimes he threw the dog from the roof. Every day he tortured and killed some animal or the other. He enjoyed doing all this. The family members were worried. Adolf was almost 18 years old. It was four o'clock in the night. Adolf wore his slippers and came out of the house. He was walking on the dirt road. He saw a heap of sand. He went near the heap and started playing with the sand. There was a huge mango tree there. Sounds started coming from the branches of the tree. Adolf looked up. His forehead started getting covered with sweat. A black monkey was looking at him angrily. Its eyes had turned red. A few days ago, Adolf had set fire to that monkey on the pretext of giving it food. That monkey saved its life by going to the nearby pond. But his body had turned black. Adolf got up from there and started running. Someone had left an axe there. The monkey jumped from the tree and started running towards Adolf with the axe. Adolf's foot hit a stone. He fell down. He was about to attack him with the axe when Adolf wakes up from sleep screaming loudly. He looks around. He realizes that it was just a dream. He goes to the place where he had brutally burnt the monkey. Seeing the dead body of the monkey, he laughs loudly. Then a thick trunk of a mango tree breaks and falls on him. He gets injured and gets buried under it. He lies lifeless for several hours. After that, his family members come and admit him to the hospital. After suffering from pain for several days. After getting treatment. After about a few months, he gets well. The family members explain again - don't do wrong things. Hearing this Adolf starts laughing. Angry, his mother slaps him. Some days pass. It was evening time. Adolf was looking here and there from the roof. A tap was being made at some distance. His eyes fell on his father. Who was helping in making the tap. He came down the stairs. While walking he started moving towards his father. The sun was setting. The work of the tap was completed. His father started going through the short-cut path. Which was a kutcha path. Adolf started following him. The distance between them was around 10 meters. His father turned from the path and started moving towards the house. Adolf was also about to turn and move towards the house when a woman held his hand tightly. There were two more men with that woman. He thought, these people were not kidnappers. At that time Adolf was so scared that he was not able to speak. He was trying hard to free his hand. All three of them were laughing in a scary way. Adolf bit their hand with his teeth and ran towards his house after freeing his hand. Two weeks later. Adolf along with his companions plan to rob a small bank. Then a baby goat starts licking his feet. Adolf gets angry and kicks it hard. After which it starts crying loudly. Seeing this, Adolf becomes very happy in his heart. His companions feel bad about this behavior of Adolf. Night time. They wear black clothes and try to break the lock of the bank at around four in the night. Due to the loud noise, after some time police officers reach there. They start running from there. The officers fire bullets. But the bullets go past them. They keep running for a long time. They reach inside a small forest. After some time it is morning. They look at the top of a tree. Their hearts start beating fast due to fear. A man was hanging from a noose on top of a tree. Seeing this scene, they run towards their house at a fast pace. It was around 11 o'clock at night. It was a moonlit night. Adolf opens the door and looks down the stairs. There a clown was looking at Adolf with a scary smile. Adolf, scared, slams the door shut. His elder brother asks him - what happened? He says - nothing. In the evening. He was going on the road. He finds a revolver lying there. He picks it up and keeps it with him. He starts moving forward. Ahead of him, a wedding procession was going. In that procession, a clown was dancing slowly. Adolf fires a bullet at the clown with his revolver. After being hit by the bullet, the clown falls down on the ground. Adolf runs away from there. After a few hours, he realises that it was another clown. But instead of feeling remorse, he laughs out loud. He takes his revolver and starts shooting at the animals that come near him. Five innocent animals are shot dead on the spot. The next day, an investigation begins into the incident. But he goes to another city. To a relative's wedding. The wedding preparations were going on. A girl takes him by the hand and takes him up the stairs to a room. There was a 'Khant' (a wooden stool) kept there. Adolf thinks - she probably wants to have sex with me. Adolf climbs on top of her. Excited, he ejaculates in his pants. The girl's mother and Adolf's father were already present in the room. They were hiding. When Adolf sees his father, he stands up in fear. His father gets angry and leaves without saying anything. The girl and her mother also leave. Adolf, a little sad, starts coming down the stairs. He starts walking in a field situated some distance away from the wedding house. Something is visible in the moonlight. He felt that there was something under his feet. But what was it? He did not know. He looks ahead. In front of the wedding house, a tree had been lit up. Under it, a baby goat was smiling at Adolf. Adolf thinks a lot. After that, he realizes that it is an old landmine. He drowns in sorrow for some time. He regrets remembering his bad deeds. After that, he smiles at the baby goat and moves his foot away. There is an explosion and his body is blown to pieces.