My Own People Short Story

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My Own People
(A short story)

When I woke up in the morning, it was very cold and shivering. The sky was misty and cloudy. The previous night, it had rained heavily. The stinging and biting wind was still blowing with the ferocious speed. It seemed that we did not live in plain, but in mountains. This year’s winter had proved fatal for many people. Many old and ill had gone till that time. My one of the close relatives had also died a few weeks back.
For the last fifteen days, not for a single moment, the sun had shown its face. Most of the time, people would sit before some bonfire to prevent themselves from catching cold or keeping the biting weather at bay.
I was also among them who was very disturbed and tormented at this sudden change …show more content…

Then, we make a guess how many days it would take to get healed. If we get ourselves convinced that it may take two to three weeks, then, we start our treatment. It makes our earning flow for quite some time to come. These animals also do not fall ill so easily and regularly. And, most of all, they can’t protest like humans.’
Dr Manzoor had made me completely disturbed and confused. I was almost numb to hear his words.
‘Would a human ever liked to go down to such meanness?’ I thought.
‘Take care. But don’t say these words to anyone. You are my old day friend, so I told you.’ Dr Manzoor said and departed without noticing my pain and anguish.
I moved too slowly and cautiously. I was also afraid of my doctor who had instructed me to be on time. He had threatened that if you did not turn up today on time, I would not nurse you because he had to go somewhere.
Dr Karim’s talk had made me completely disturbed. Only one thought came into my mind repeatedly that what would be if my doctor had applied the same tactics to me also. But the very next moment I thought that it might be true with an animal, but it couldn’t be done on human. If it happened, might be an animal could survive, but not a person like …show more content…

I did not reply. He also did not look much eager to talk with me.
He started putting his things in his tool box. And, I moved towards the shop to buy the things which I needed.
In the dead of the night, when the whole world was asleep, I was awake. I was restless to think that how that innocent animal was going through the hellish phase of his life. I thought that if that beastly doctor kept doing the same thing as he was doing, he would surely die soon.
Luckily, I got sleep. And deep and sound sleep always bring dreams, either good or bad. I saw that some brutish and distorted figures had pressed me hard on the ground. I was trying to wrench myself away from their firm and cruel clutch. But as much as I tried, more I failed.
They were attacking me with the knives, swords and scalpels. Incessant pain and cry were coming out from my mouth. At every moment, I was losing my precious blood and life also. But whereupon, my body was pouring out blood, for them, it was like a stream of freshly minted coins and they were trying to gather into their hands and pots. In that cruel scene, I saw many faces which were close to me.

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