Hello everyone! Today we have a little magic in a tiny village. Hope you enjoy.
THE MIRRORED VILLAGE
Flash fiction
On a clear late summer
evening the other village appears. No
one knows much about it.
Some say it doesn’t
really exist and it just a reflection but others know better they say.
Those that have gone in
search of the other village never come back.
For those that don’t believe,
they said that they were fools who simply drowned.
Others who do believe,
say that the villagers that live there kept them or they decided to stay.
Whatever the real story
is, no one knows more than a couple who wanted to go find the other village.
They said they came back because they escaped.
This made a lot laugh and
said they were simply better swimmers and made it back safely.
The couple stood by their
story.
Not all laughed at them.
A young man had gone to them asking questions about the place. They told him
that everyone that lived there was a image of all that lived in their own
village.
Those images were not
like themselves they told him. They wanted to become one and take your soul
they said.
The man didn’t respond
just walked away quietly.
The couple were a bit
worried that despite what they told him that he would venture off to this
world.
Sure enough, the next
day. When they decided to check on him, he was gone.
They ran to the edge of
the village down by the water to look for him. Maybe he hadn’t left yet.
But he was not to be
found and their efforts to find him was a failure.
Sadly they went back and
told everybody what happened. They all told the couple that nothing could be
done.
The next day however, the
young man was back at his place. The young couple asked where he had gone.
He told them that he had
actually gone to the other village and had a wonderful time meeting the people.
They were horrified.
The young man smiled. I
heard your warnings and I knew how to go there then.
They looked confused.
He explained to them that
he made himself look different and that no one there was like him. He said he
saw himself but never came to him wanting anything.
So he said he was safe
and that he would go back again.
They just shook their
head and told him if he was wise, he would stay away.
It was some later the
young man went missing and was gone for two weeks.
The village people feared
that this time he drowned.
But a mysterious man came
to shore in a small boat. It looked like the young man and most thought it was
really him but the couple was not fooled.
They knew it was the
mirrored image of the young man.
Late one night they went
down to the shore and the young man was out there sitting on an old tree
looking out at the perfect image of the village.
It was very eerie and the
air was quite cool.
But the couple crept
closer to watch.
They watched for quite a
while and the young woman was getting cold so they decided to head back.
Just as they got up, the
young man got off of his tree where he was sitting and waded into the water.
They froze as they both
watched him.
The young man was up to
his waste in water when another one in front of him popped up.
Now there was two of
them.
They shook hands and the
one that was sitting on the tree, disappeared into the water and the other
image came onto shore.
The young man shook
himself off when he got on land and it was as if he dried off instantly.
The young couple stayed
where they were until he disappeared.
The next day everything
was normal until they noticed that the young couple were missing.
Everyone was worried what
had happened.
But like the young man,
they came back.
Now people in the village
were starting to tell other stories.
They were convinced that
the young couple were actually from the mirrored village.
The young man had
convinced people that they were wrong.
Others thought that he
was one of them and that maybe more of their village people were probably from
there as well.
But there was no way to
tell who was who so they let it pass and just didn’t mention it.
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