Thursday, May 20, 2010

A man, a woman, an albino baby, a fish, a tree stump and Go

A person asked if anyone could write a short story in about 300 words with the following elements in it: A man, a woman, an albino baby, a fish, a tree stump and Go, and the setting must be in some other planet than our own, in a game room of a Go site, KGS. So, I did.

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It was raining hard on that day. In fact, it had been raining for so long, Ghan did't remember seeing the Sun at all.
The large hat he was wearing stopped helping him since last Sunday; it was a good hat made of waterproofing material. Anna made it for him on his birthday. "Where is she, by the way?", he muttered silently.

He had to get some food soon, otherwise pregnant wife of his will not get enough nutrient for their baby.
He was standing silently behind a stump of a large Baobob tree, trying to see better through the persistent rain. He was holding a small ray gun and wearing a tiny odoursensor on his nose bridge, which slips from its position often because of the rain. How long he was standing there silently, he did't care. He is known for his patience among his friends, and he knew that the hunting requires patience before any other skills.

He thought about the baby they were going to have in three months of time. The doctor said that there was a small abnormality with the baby, but he assured that being an albino was not that uncommon any more on this planet ZeeX. Ghan himself was a half albino. He just felt sorry for his woman since she wasn't one and he thought that it was all his fault (but the doctor said it wasn't his fault at all).

Suddenly the odoursensor gave him a faint signal of buzzing and in a few seconds, he smelled a whiff of fish. He grabbed the ray gun firmly in front of him, stood up more erect and tried to open his eyes as wide as possible. There it was, through the poring rain, a giant flying fish with huge wings!
He waited until it approached within few feet from him, and pulled the trigger.

When he came home with the hunted fish, he was surprised to see that his woman was there playing a very old game by herself. She was playing out the sequences from the book that he found from an old ruin of the planet Earth, not far from his own planet. When she saw him carrying the giant fish, which would give them enough food for next few months, she said in her beautiful voice, "Atari sente tenuki, Ghan." which meant "I love you, Ghan." in their own secret language.

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