Paw of the Black Magic
November
21
The first time I heard of the mysterious monkeys paw was when I was seven years of age, I overheard momma and papa whispering secretly about the some old baboons paw and when it would be time. Now and then after that I heard papa talking to momma about an old paw or black magic in a way I always thought that they were trying to hide something from me.
It was a tragedy when my 57 year old father died of a fatal heart attack in the middle of the night. Soon after that my wife and I went to my mother’s home for my twentieth birth day when we got there my mother was sitting at our very small old table with a small wooden box setting wright In front of her it looked like an expensive box dark wood and very neat hand writing written on the side of it reading black magic be warned. That night was the first time I saw it the paw. It was old very old and dirty it smelt like meat that went bad and sat out in the hot sun and backed for many hours. My mother told me that her grandmother gave it to her 30 years before this year and now it’s your turn to have it she said that the old woman that gave her grandmother the paw told her that it will grant you 3 wishes if she can find the way two use it has been passed on for generations and no one had a chance to use it. My wife and I went home that night and put the paw up for safe keeping.
My mother died in her sleep that night from a heart attack it was like she was waiting to give me the paw before she joined my father. It was a short three years when my wife had a baby boy named Bausi it was a good time until one night I was woken up by a disturbing scream that sounded lie fire I woke to find my wife trying to get my two month old child out of the blazing home. I got up and got my wife and child out my home burnt to the ground that’s when I remembered the monkeys paw around my neck I grab it in my wright hand closed my eyes and said out loud I wish for my home back. The next morning I woke up to find my baby boy missing and a home that looked just like my old home. I thought he woke up his mother took him in the hose then came bake to wake me but when I looked she was still sleeping so I woke her up and ask her where are chid is she did not know. We went into are home and everything was the same.
We searched for my son fore three whole days and could not even find a trace of him on the last night that we searched for him I remembered that I still had the paw on a string around my neck. The next morning talked to my wife about using the paw to get money to pay for a party of people to search and find are missing child. When I made the wish my wife was going to go and buy some supplies from the market. I held my paw in my wright hand and said out loud I wish for one Million dollars. Lie it did my first wish the paw seamed to move like a snake squirming in your hand.
That was the last time I spoke to my wife she got attacked by an elephant and pronounced dead on the spot. I searched for my son for seven long days after that on the eighth day I made the horrible con collusion that everything I lived for was gone my loving mother that was always there for me had died of a heart attack and is with my father now, my baby boy was missing without a trace and my loving wife that had died all because of me. I was greedy I wanted everything and because of me every one had to suffer. That is when I devoured I had one wish left in my wright hand I wish for death upon myself to be with my loving family!