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Tender meat (Short story)

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Reshma was returning from school to her village in the evening. Suddenly there was a thick darkness in the sky, the clouds started quarreling with each other and the lightning started illuminating the darkness of the sky.

Strong winds started blowing and flowers started falling from the branches, the clouds could not stop themselves and started crying with happiness.

Reshma loves rain. She saw that some earthworms had come out of the soil, she picked up one of them and put it in her little box along with the soil. She was collecting it for her vermicompost pit. She also collected some branches with leaves for her only friend.

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Upon reaching home, Reshma was shocked to see the courtyard and started shouting - " Papa, my chhanki?"

Chhanki was Reshma's sports partner, she always plays with her except during school hours. Taking her on her shoulder, she takes her around the forest every day.

Before going to school, she ties her to a pole in the courtyard and puts some leaves in front of her. Chhanki waits for her like this.

Her father said that when he saw green swaying leaves near the bungalow of the office of forest department, he left Channki there.
He said, "You finish the food, then go and bring her home."

Reshma's mother passed away when she was 2 years old. Reshma's father took care of her. Reshma's father used to work as a peon in the bungalow of the forest department on the edge of the forest.

There the officers used to come and he would cook food for them. He even had a gun just to protect himself from wild animals in emergency.

Reshma did not even change her clothes and started running with her bag towards the bungalow, shouting - "I will have food after I come back."

A white colored car was standing in front of the bungalow. Rich Government officials had come for a picnic. She was hearing unusual voices from inside the bungalow, Reshma got scared, till yesterday there was only one officer.

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Listening to Reshma's voice, whether she is in a bush of thorns or in a forest, Chhanki immediately jumps and comes out crying. Reshma saw Chhanki's rope and said in her mind, the rope is here, then where did Chhanki go? She got distressed and frustrated.

She went behind the Bungalow. The back door was not closed properly, did chanki go inside from here!
Opening the door slowly, she peeped inside.

Unusually horrifying view!

She saw three banana leaves and three big fat demons around it, red blood soaked flesh on top of a banana leaf and a pan of hot oil in the corner of room.

Reshma could not understand anything or may be she didn't want to understand, she was about to close the door, but a fat man came in front of her. Before Reshma could scream, the man closed her mouth with one hand and took her inside with the other.

When Reshma did not return home, her father went to look for her. There was a fear in his mind that some wild animal had eaten Reshma. Reshma was nowhere to be found. He calmed down his mind with a consolation that maybe Reshma must have gone back home by another route.

Then when he went inside the bungalow to cook food, he saw that Chhanki's head was lying in the corner and Reshma's naked body was lying in the middle of the room, drenched in blood.

His mind went numb and something within him impelled him to open fire indiscriminately on the drunk people lying there.

The next morning the news came

"Peon who killed 3 forest department officers and his own daughter, arrested."