He ran into the forest, the shadows. Into the darkness. No one had seen him. He walked between the trees. It was done.
They had all laughed at him for so long. Hey thought they were better than him. Thought they were always right. Now they wanted to take what was his.
He came out of the forest, onto the dirt road going down to the village. He followed it the other way, up the hill.
A carriage came, a wagon with two horses. He jumped off the road, hid in the bushes. It was Masterson’s carriage. He was coming home from his field late today.
Alfred got back up on the road while he could still see him in a distance. He ran, ran until he was finally home.
Now all he had to do was wait. Wait until they all had drunk the water. Wait until they were all dead.
They would see who was right this time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well_poisoning
https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFallacies/140/Poisoning-the-Well
Fictionspawn 
UMM, the water tastes funny! Oops and Ouch!!
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Always offer your guests first…
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Wow! Revenge! But it’s never as satisfying as you think it will be…
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Doesn’t really change anything, does it. Thanks George!
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A dark deed…
I liked the last line- it shows more of his state of mind, as they’ll be dead and won’t care who was right. He’s too caught up in his revenge to see that far ahead.
Nice one!
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Exactly! The ultimate fallacy… Thanks a lot, draliman!
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Love this!!
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Thanks!
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Loved it!
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Thank you.
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My Pleasure!
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Hopefully the two horses followed that old adage “You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink.”
At least they’ll be spared the fury of his revenge.
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Let’s hope the horses drink from the river…
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Fantastic, water is not always good for us if there is something in it. I will watch my step. Lol. 😀
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It could easily be quite harmful… Thanks a lot 🙂
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You are Welcome. I found my lost Mojo by the way. ☺
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Happy to hear that! Life’s just not the same without our Mojo 😀
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No, it is Not.
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Yikes! 😲
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Bad company this guy, I would think.
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Right?!!! Obviously don’t want to piss him off! Which could lead to a lot of really stupid jokes, but I’ll stop there. Ack! Sorry! 😂 It looks like whatever he put in the water tank that is ooooozing out is far worse than my humor…thank goodness. Cheers!!! 🙂
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Haha! Let’s hope so 😀
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I suppose that’s one way to get rid of everyone who disagrees with you.
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Some people never loose an argument…
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Hello there!
Echoed this comment thread! Not surprised how good your message. I love how he was running away. It was suspenseful but then I knew…
Ending was perfect! 😉
Hope you’re doing well!😊
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Thank you very much. The one who runs is the guilty one, they say 😉 I’m fine, thanks! I see you’re being productive as well. I’ll be reading 🙂
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😊
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Scary! Evil resides in the most unlikely places. I also enjoyed your atmospheric art. 😍
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Thanks Rummager! We all better get along, never know what people might do.
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Yikes! So true, Aak.
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Thanks for the links. Very clever to poison our well.
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Works every time.
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Happy you liked the links, by the way. I put quite an effort into finding good ones sometimes.
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Wow. Great story telling, as always.
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Thank you 🙂
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this is art of writting, i can really relate one of my friend with this thing, appreciation from India!
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Thanks a lot! Hmmmm… does that mean your friend poisons wells? 😮
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Not really, he is a good guy but you know, he gets bullied nearly every day, everyone just try to make him feel sad, sometimes he really looses his temper and starts getting panic
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That’s sad. Losing temper usually just makes things worse, too. I hope things get better for him. They probably will.
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i hope the same, well! it was pleasure reading your post!
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Thanks! Wish your friend good luck from me. And to you, too 😉
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thank you…may you also achieve whatever you deserve!
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Everytime when I see him , it looks like he had rough journey
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As I commented earlier, I really liked this piece of writing, I want to ask that can I use this for our school story board, I will be pleased if you will allow!
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I’m honored. What’s a school story board?
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It is just a board in your school where our school is starting to execute some of the writings of children , so I asked them if we can execute some of the people outside India, as I really liked some of the poems in WordPress
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Aha! No problem. Please put fictionspawn.com somewhere visible so I get some credit for ir, OK? Although… I hope they’re not too small 😉
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Of course, there will be your name and source under your poem! Na na , they are perfect, thanks for allowing
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Thank you for your interest, hope they enjoy it 🙂
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Wow! I didn’t see that coming
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Thanks! Part two is called The Crows Know the Dead Rember, two posts later I think.
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Am on it
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short, succinct and scarifyingly effective
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Thank you 🙂
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There’s a second part called The Crows Know the Dead Remember
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okay. will check it out later :}
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