twisted tales

pearls and jewels

(3rd point of view)

Deep in the forest lived a happy couple in a small cottage. They were very poor but had enough money to get through the weeks but now with his wife pregnant they barely had money to get through the day. one day the man went out for his early morning walk, unaware that today was the day that would change his life forever. While he was walking home he tripped and stumbled, he looked down expecting to see a stone but no...it was something buried not too far under the dirt, it shined bright. He knelt down and dug around trying to get whatever this was out from under the ground. Once had dug deep enough he grabbed the handle and pulled it out and to his surprise it was a golden goblet. The goblet had such intricate and beautiful patterns on it, engraved in the side of the Cup was a message 'if you cry thy tears of pure sadness you shall be granted with pearls and jewels' the man picked himself up off the floor and started to speed walk home excited to show his wife only to stop dead in his track, like a deer caught in headlights...they were happy, rarely ever sad. How was they to get Jewels and pearls if they rarely ever shed a tear? He let out 3 single tears that fell into the cup, there was a bright light coming from the goblet. when the bright light coming from the goblet died down he had looked into it and saw three misshapen grey pearls and 2 flattened gems, he smiled widely and continued on his merry way home unaware of the unfortunate events that would happen later on in the weeks. A week had passed and by now the man had cried so much that he had a pile of jewels and pearls but the man was now finding it harder to cry. A week after a call came through the landline, it was his mother, turns out his brother had just passed away. The man wept so many tears an gained so much jewels and pearls. A month had passed and the man now blinded by greed had nothing else to cry about, he tried to think of the saddest things like his mother passing away or his dad getting hit by a car but nothing worked...just then an idea came to him, it was wicked and cruel no one in their right minds would ever think about doing this but this man wasn't in his right mind and at the end of the day, upon a mounting of pearls and jewels the man held his wife's lifeless body and unborn child in his arms. That day at 6:35pm just when the sun started the set the man cried the most tears he had ever cried and held the most regret, more than any other man.

Fin~