draliman on life

Here is my contribution to Barbara Beacham’s Mondays Finish the Story. We get a photo and a starting sentence and then 150-ish words to finish the story.

To read this week’s other stories, click on the blue froggy. The supplied opening sentence is in bold in my story below.

So without further ado, let’s join the Harris family on their educational African safari!

Copyright B.W. Beacham

The Harris Family and the Cycle of Life

They followed the buffaloes and their babies along the trail heading into the woods.

“Oh, Daddy!” exclaimed little Betty Harris. “Aren’t they cute?”

“Look at how they frolic along happily beside their parents!” added her mother. “Shall we keep following them?”

“Ooh, yes!” giggled Betty excitedly. “May we, Daddy, may we?”

“Of course!” laughed Father. Betty clapped her hands with glee.

They entered the woods and soon spotted the buffaloes at a watering hole. Father knelt down, readied his hunting rifle and pulled the trigger. The nearest buffalo baby’s head exploded, bits and pieces splashing into the water. Betty gasped.

“Father, what have you done?”

“It’s all part of the Cycle of Life,” explained Mother. “You see, we’re the dominant species and therefore we can kill all the animals!”

“All of them? Wow!” said Betty. “Father, may I have a go with the gun?”

Tune in again next week when Mother discovers the error in her “dominant species” theory in “The Harris Family and the Hideous Child-Eating Lion of Death”.