Short story

PAY FOR YOUR LIFE

By Delfina Nadal, November 20009

It was a gloomy day; everyone in San Francisco was inside their houses. Everybody was scared, there was a horrible storm outside and it was raining hard. The animals were behaving strangely that evening. The dogs barked, the rats made noises, the cattle in the country was also nervous.
It was 5:00 when the disastrous thing happened, the city started shaking, the house fell down and the streets broke in two. The inhabitants ran towards underground floors and everything was a mess.
The city shook a whole day, but for the people who suffered it, was almost a year. When they could get out of their hiding places, they saw the dead bodies of the people who had paid their lives to the earthquake and felt sorry for that.
The next earthquake occurred one year later but that’s another story.