Midnight Knock
It was past midnight. I
woke up with a start. I thought someone was knocking at the door.
Our house is a bit
isolated, surrounded on three sides by paddy fields and by an orchard in the
backyard. The nearest house is at least half a kilometer away. But I was not
normally scared by such midnight knocks; I had a couple of German shepherds to
keep a watch on all intruders. But surprisingly they were silent and that was unusual of them.
I opened the door and was
shocked to see an alien. Far away in the paddy field I could see the unblinking
lights of a spacecraft.
I felt nervous and was
unable to say anything.
‘You are a doctor? I need
your help. I got an eye problem,’ the alien said in an extremely pleasant
voice. Of course, he himself was ugly looking.
‘But I can’t treat you; I
am not an eye surgeon. In fact………’
But the alien was in too
much of a hurry. He muttered some unintelligible words and pressed some buttons on
his left arm. In a flash both of us were inside the space craft. He led me to a
brightly lit futuristic operation theater and said, ‘You must help me. I have
to go back to my universe but I can’t travel till my eyesight is restored.’
‘But I am a veterinary
doctor…….’
‘I never said I am a
human being…..’
That left me speechless. I
looked at his left eye; something in it frightened me.
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A post for Sunday PhotoFiction and for Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers on picture prompts
