Let Our Picture Tell Your Story - Edition 49

Thanks for the invitation my friend @wrestlingdesires

Really looking forward looking the entrys, if they use #fun/#funny would love to get them a cheers vote

Thank you for the mention @wrestlingdesires. Looks like I need to make my creative juice flow again.

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This is my entry for the picture prompt:

AT TWELVE

"Do you want to have magic powers?" Julio, my playmate asked.

"Of course, I do!"

"I know a little secret," he said. He giggled as he got closer to me. We were already cheek-to-cheek close. And I was starting to feel uncomfortable.

"Hurry up!" I said. Annoyed. Then, his lips touched my ear. His warm breath sent chills down my spine.

"Ahh!"

He released an earsplitting scream, making me deaf for some time. It hurt, so I pushed him as hard as I could and walked away without looking back at him.

"At twelve! At noon or midnight, one of the plantain banana hearts will spit an amulet. Meet me tomorrow noon at our plantation... on a Good Friday!"

I covered my ears and pretended I didn't hear him, although I remembered everything he said.

The next day, I opened my eyes to the blinding midday light. I tried covering my eyes with my arm but couldn't move. I was tied by a rope, lying on the field blanketed with moist hay that released a dewy and loamy scent.

"Sorry, Ben." Julio cut my string of thoughts and confusion. "I kidnapped you, so you can also have your amulet. Now open your mouth, and wait for the banana heart to bloom."

It was then that I realized I was lying under a banana heart.

"Untie me, now, you fool! I swear if I could release myself here, I'll beat you like a pulp!" I wriggled to let loose but to no avail. "LET ME GO!"

A shrill tune distracted me. When my vision was cleared, I saw a small brown bird skipping and hopping on the banana heart's surface. It was also poking the bud with its cute beak.

Until I noticed what I believed was not an amulet but a bird poo!

"Julio! Untie me, now!"

As I screamed, the poo seemed to be dropping in slow motion. I panicked as it dropped.

"Juliooooo!"

BOG!

I winced when my butt hit the tiled floor of my room.

I was grateful it was just a dream. But I was in pain because I fell off my bed because of that nightmare.

Thanks for choosing my photo for one of the story prompts!

Hello, here is my story.
Title: "Alfredito and the cranes".
Alfredito was a sunbird who lived in a tropical coastal town, with a lot of diversity of flora and fauna. In this one you could walk from a lush, cloudy and humid jungle to a desert with lots of sun and beach. Its food source was mainly flower nectar, and it also ate the occasional insect.
From the top of the bushes and other plants he could see the beach.
One day he was on the flowers of a banana plant furtively sipping nectar, turning around and perching on a leaf to rest from time to time. There he thought: "fortunately I can feed on nectar in the same position that the bats taught me. The cranes, on the other hand, look at the sea with hunched shoulders thinking that the water is still too cold to go hunting, poor things, I wouldn't want to be in their shoes".
Thus, without knowing with certainty the reason for the inaction of those long-legged white seabirds, he continued to live his happy life, from flower to flower, sometimes making holes to reach the calyx faster without passing through the stamens, that is, without paying.

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Title: In A Time Of Famine

It was the 10th month in the same year that famine had hit the land of Pluto. The streams went dry and the fruits dried up. The only choice left for the birds in Pluto was to travel miles in search of a land where the famine wasn't severe. The fear of hunters hindered them from taking this trip

"Our chances of survival are rare, it's better to die of starvation than to be brought down by the Hunter's bullet" the king had said during the discussion and this brought fear upon them except for Reco who was determined not to die of hunger.

The following morning Reco traveled miles until he found a land where the plantations had flaccid plantains. No hunter seemed to lurk around the place, nor were human habitation nearby. Reco mounted a nest there , happy to have found a place with plantains he could feed on, and this place became his new home.

Inviting @emreal @iyimoga . I believe you'll like to participate in this short story contest.

Thanks @wrestlingdesires for the invitación and and I also thank: @hadrianwild , @melinda010100, @dreemsteem, @dswigle, @dreemsteem, @gornat and @archon.

I invite to this contest: @jjmusa2004, @neilamarcano

My entry:

THE BROKEN PACT

I find myself fluttering happily around Mrs. Maria's farm. She told us she was going to protect us from poachers and her husband, Ricardo. He hates birds; instead she authorized us to use a group of plants where we could drink the nectar and bathe. Of course, we could only use the ones she allowed us to use. Those are hidden and distant from Ricardo's hand. He does not understand that we can all live in harmony... How happy I am today!

-Hurry up, come little by little, Brown Throat tells his friends and neighbors.

And they all fly away. Everything is already served. In the banana plants they don't have to make any effort; they just stick their beaks in and drink the sweet nectar of the huge flower. Other sunbirds, on the other hand, prefer to take a bath in the nearby plants, where a comfortable bathtub awaits them, unaware of the danger that lurks... Among them is Mrs. Olive Tenderloin. She, all smug, prefers to preen herself to conquer her beloved. Not satisfied with that, she sets out to sing, although her voice is not exactly melodious...

-I've already given him the signal... now I trust that Chatterbox will come to me. Olive Tenderloin comments to herself.

Chatterbox gives signals... a ritual bow where the wings, partially open and trembling with emotion, begin the expected courtship. Olive Tenderloin is ready to answer him when, suddenly, Brown Throat begins to chirp, sounding the alarm:

-Insensates. They have betrayed us. They put us in danger and broke the rules. They're coming for us. Fly, fly, fly now!!!!

THE BROKEN PACT by María del Carmen Sánchez Copyright© 2024

March 12, 2024

Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

Thank you very much @wrestlingdesires for the invitation and the sponsors of this beautiful contest.

This story is based on the beautiful photography of @melinda010100

What do we do now?

The young group of herons had reached that lonely beach when a storm separated them from the rest of the flock flying north.

They were there, disoriented and recovering from wind damage to their wings.

And now, what do we do?" asked Lito, the youngest of the group, as he looked at the cold sea, whose waves were coming and going to the shore.

"We can't despair," Manuel replied. "Something will occur to us".

"I am hungry". Said Merci, we should fish.

"You are crazy!," Lito replied. "The orcas would eat us. Look there; you can see their shadows".

"But we need to eat to regain our strength", replied Merci, annoyed by Lito's answer*.

"Wait a minute; we can't go into the sea like this; we don't know what's waiting for us in there". Manuel was cautious and felt responsible for the group.

"Let's do one thing: I'm going into the sea, and Pedro and Luis will accompany me".

The three brave men flew over the calm but dark surface of the sea. They could not see the fish. Only a large and even darker shadow wandered from one side to the other. Manuel made a decision to help his friends; he would sacrifice himself to drive away the shadow that was stalking them. He entered the sea in a dive to attract the attention of the shadow, while the rest quickly began to fish.

Manuel entered the water and found himself face-to-face with a huge whale that was trying to help its calf that was trapped in the calm waters of the bay. It looked like a whale.

Manuel told him, "We are going to help you; this is why we had to be on this beach".

The whole flock helped the little one get out of the sands and algae that kept him trapped, and he was able to survive and continue the journey with his mother.

And they recovered, and they were very happy to have helped save the baby whale. They waited for the right moment to continue their journey and meet their flock.

I invite @kei2 and @iskawrites to participate.

Dudu bird and banana island🌸

For many, in a forest, a small family of Sol birds got up every morning to roam the landscape in search of the rich nectar of the flowers and share their food with each other. However, one day something very strange began to happen to all the flowers in the region, and they began to dry up as if a curse had fallen upon them. All that tragedy saddened the birds, especially little Dudu, the most adventurous young bird in the family.
When Dudu looked at what was happening, he wanted to make jokes about it; however, nothing he did caused smiles. On the contrary, his attitude annoyed his father, who flapped his wings and with a loud voice expelled him from that region. It tore Dudu's heart out, his own father had turned his back on him, just because he did not know how to measure his comments. Sad and lonely, it was something his flight as far as possible, with a lot of discomfort. That flight made him realize what a terrible thing happened to flowers.
As she reached one of the flowers, she noticed a bee fluttering near her, making a loud sound like a call. It was the queen of a honeycomb, calling her army to look elsewhere. That spectacle attracted the attention of Dudu, who curiously went out after that army. The buzzing of the bees could be heard far away, all of them were joyfully singing a song, it seemed that they were not afraid of what was happening.
The queen bee noticed the pursuit of the little bird and ordered her bees to make a barrier for the Dudu, just to talk to him.
The bee noticed that the bird was unaccompanied, so she decided to accept his company, asking the bees to keep the peace between them and Dudu.
After a long flight, Dudu realized that the bees were going to an island full of wild fruits and orchids, surrounded by rivers and dense jungle.
Dudu was amazed, he had never seen such a garden, although his heart was pounding with fear, he went down and found a delicacy in a banana plant, where a juicy liquid showed up, it was Nectar that came out, there he did not have to open holes to take it out as in other flowers, just with his beak was enough to savor this new gift of nature.
Dudu traveled home, a little frightened by what his father had told him. When he arrived home, his father hugged him and asked him to forgive him for that day. He cried hugging him, bringing the good news.
The birds did not doubt him, they all took flight until they themselves saw the wonderful banana island, a home for all.
Dudu, grateful to his father, understood that sometimes there are situations that move us to a better place. That staying stuck in pain doesn't let you see the opportunities that pass in front of you like bees. Getting out of comfort is painful, momentary, but it pushes us to risk taking new challenges.
That adventure of Dudu the bird brought joy to his family, an island full of nectar.