Desert+Fiction

Desert Fiction  Story By Elise M.  Once upon a time in a desert far away, there were two friends. Their names were Henrik and Sydney and they were the best friends in the world, but they had a life-threatening problem. Henrik was an owl and Sydney was a mouse. They lived very happily and saw each other often. Henrik lived in a Saguaro Cactus. The cactus didn’t mind, but Henrik benefited from the situation because he loved having a safe place to go.

One day, Sydney got very sick, so Henrik went to see what was wrong because he was the best doctor in the desert. He figured out that Syney had a Hondelintworm, which is a type of parasite. It had gotten in his intestines and was absorbing the nutrients in everything that he ate. When Henrik saw Sydney laying there dying, he couldn’t help himself. He had gotten to hungry, so he hunted his friend Sydney, and ate him. Once it happened, it seemed like everyone in the desert knew. Even the owl’s good friend Hectar, the Honey Bee, was gossiping about him. He heard him one day when he was flying around for fun. He saw Hectar getting pollen from his best friend, a flower named Phil. They have been best friends ever since Phil helped out Hectar by giving him pollen and Hectar helped out Phil by bringing pollen to all of the other flowers. Everyone knew about what Henrik had done to poor Sydney. They all gave him mean looks and said mean things. Eventually, Henrik ran away and hid under a rock because even the cactus hated him. Henrik wished he could tell everyone how guilty he felt, but no one would listen, so he cried. Henrik felt bad about what he had done for the rest of his life. He never forgave himself. Eventually he starved to death because when he came out from under his rock, no one would give him anything to eat. With his dying breath, he hooted the words “ I’m sorry Sydney." But no one was there to witness it, because no one trusted Henrik anymore.

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