Prompted Shorties

Red Snow

Prompt: The first major snowfall of the season has finally arrived. When the worst of it lets up, you bundle up, pull on your warmest boots, and venture into the whiteness of the back yard. You're admiring gently falling flakes, when you spot something startlingly red amid the drifts at the back of the yard.

Story:

The snow had finally simmered down on this cloudy morning, but there's no sun yet to be seen. Benny's been irking to go outside ever since that snow storm started. It's been days since we last saw something close to sunshine, but I'll take what I can get.

"You hungry boy?" I said to Benny, he let out a little whimper as I grabbed his dog food. He loves this stuff and I don't know why. I tried one before – for science – but I didn't liked it, I guess it's a dog thing. After feeding Benny, I also poured me some whiskey that my dad left the other day when my folks were here. Good thing they weren't caught by that blasted snow storm. Benny kept scratching the kitchen door that leads to the backyard, telling me he wanted to go pee.

"Okay okay, hurry back." I said to him as I opened the door, he immediately ran to his "potty" place which was near that broken wooden fence next to the woods. I quietly finished my glass of whiskey then thought of Benny. He's been out for a while, why hasn't he come back yet?

I looked outside the kitchen window and I couldn't see him. Maybe he's stuck in the snow or something?

I started to bundle up, put on my warmest boots that my mom got me two Christmases ago and started venturing through the whiteness of my backyard.

"Benny, come here boy!" I called once, but no answer. That was unusual, he always answers, or comes running towards me at the very least.

"Benny?" I called again, but like before, there was no answer.

I admired this one snowflake that happen to catch my eye and immediately illuminating something red from the distance as I followed the falling snowflake. My heart dropped and quickly thought of the worst. I ran towards the red snow and sure enough this is Benny's potty spot and the fence is now completely broken.

I can see a trail of snow going into the woods. Without hesitating, I instinctively ran and followed the trail until I caught up to the most devastating thing that I'll ever see in my life.

My dead dog being carried by the neck by this abomination of an animal.

"BENNY!" I yelled, my blood rushing through my body I grabbed a tree branch and ran towards the over sized cat and kicked it with all my might and swatted it with the branch. It immediately dropped my Benny but I couldn't control my impulses for revenge. The predator started running so I chased after it and caught it by the tail. That's when I yanked it back and slammed it for I don't know how many times on the ground, on the tree, on the rocks and I stabbed it with my branch until its eyes stopped glowing and its body stopped twitching.

I was covered in blood when I went back to my dog.

I knelt in front of Benny, my eyes covered in tears as I hugged my good boy and best friend.