hinterland by c e ayr
A word prompt to get your creativity flowing this weekend. How you use the prompt is up to you. Write a piece of flash fiction, a poem, a chapter for your novel…anything you like. Or take the challenge below – there are no prizes – it’s not a competition but rather a fun writing exercise. If you want to share what you come up with, please leave a link to it in Sammi’s Comment Section 
Click here to hear the author read his words:
The Tracker
Kill them all!
Males, females, cubs, they are savages, sub-human creatures.
We obey with glee, guns against sticks, we wipe out the entire settlement.
I see some day-old tracks, follow them into the hinterland.
On soft ground they are clearer.
One set large, wide-spaced, male.
Second set smaller, closer, female.
Third set erratic, small and scuffed, but consistently close to the female.
Suddenly I understand.
Not a cub.
A running, skipping, dancing child.
Holding mother’s hand.
I turn back, wiping away my tears.
We are the savages.
Just WOW!
Nice.
Thanks, Trish
Fantastic. Also savagely true of what colonialism had done.
Thank you, Na’ama, you understood my point perfectly.
🙂 Glad I did!
This dovetails into what I am reading now. Makes me shudder. Indeed we are. Great sound bite, CE.
Thanks, Bill, we should all be shuddering at what we have done and are still doing.
Powerful last line.
Thank you
What can I say? It’s an absolute gem.
That is a great comment, Keith, thanks so much.
Dear CE,
One of your best. One of my favorite quotes came from Pogo, a comic strip character in the 1960’s. “We have seen the enemy and he is us.”
Shalom,
Rochelle
Thank you, m’lady,much appreciated.
It is based on one of those ideas that’s been kicking around inside my head for ages, but I thought it would be a longer story.
It still might be.
Good quote.
Ohhh. Well done!
Thanks, Dale