Crimson’s Creative Challenge 102
“Mally!” His cousin, deep-voiced, called him. “Mally, come on, stop hiding. Me and the boys are going out on the lake.”
Malcolm wanted to call in return, not to venture out there. But to alert the others was to give himself away. And he remembered what had happened to his brothers and sisters and cousins, his mother, his father, his grandpa and uncles. Weren’t many of them left now on that lake.
And he’d seen what the others had not. The long-shanks with their loud killing sticks.
BOOM! BOOM!
The long-shanks hunting season again had begun.
crispina kemp 
When I first saw the pic, I missed the one hiding. Great perspective for the story.
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Thank you. Wasn’t the first story I thought of, it just popped into mind as I was about to write.
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Aww, too sad.
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Such is life for the ducks. Alas
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Yes, that true.
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🙂
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Oh, so sad. The “long shanks” – how I dislike them, but not as much as Malcolm and his family and friends. Beautifully rendered with a great point of view.
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Thank you. It was fun to write
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This little mallard has been traumatized! He probably has survivor’s guilt too. Yes, he could understandably go quackers.
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I have no doubt of that. Love the pun. Made me laugh
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Smart Mally!
Sad for the others.. I feared that was the situation…
Fun (not for the rest of the duck family) one!
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Thank you. You know me, thrown together at the last minute. Those ones always work best
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Yes!
(As did mine – though I completely changed it twice from last night!)
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It must have needed the changes, since it worked very well
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Thank you!
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Always 🙂
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😊
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Poor ducky. Smart ducky! I hope his life brightens up. Them greedy, awful, noisy long-shanks … Well done!!!
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Lucky for this particular duck, he lives in a protected environment
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Whew … 😉
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Yea. Some places are safe.
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Whew again … 😉
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I love your perspective on this and the way you nickname the hunters, could be the Watership Down of ducks!
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Could be. Yea. 🙂
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