The Hunted
A 50-word story
1 min readOct 7, 2020
He didn’t make it easy.
But I saw the signs.
A trail of broken twigs.
Drops of blood burned into the ground.
Faint pants sounded from behind the trees.
I readied my gun.
There was no-one there.
I suppose the saying is true.
A good man is hard to find.