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Stray to Star

A tale of a stray who becomes a star in the sky or a star among strays.

Feb 20, 2025  |   2 min read
Stray to Star
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He sniffed. He stepped back. Something strikes again. He went forward and sniffed again. He is suspicious.

But no one is ready to hear him. He shouted. He screamed. He was literally crying for help.

No one gives a damn to him. Just because he is a stray. It's not his mistake to be a stray. May be it's his fate.

"Life is cruel for the stray. But not as cruel as the beings who did it," he told himself. His memories flash inside his head. He happened to witness his puppy's last breath in the middle of the road.

He pulled the bag out of the garbage. Immediately he knows that it is in too dangerous condition and needs to be evacuated at once. No one will lend a helping hand to a stray.

Busy roads, heavy noises, crowded streets, a political campaign in which the members were distributing their red-colored party flag to the houses and wrapping them around on the lamp posts.

It's a grave situation. His heart is thumping so fast. He knows that he has to do something. For a second, he closed his eyes and took a deep breath. When he opened his eyes, his ears became sharp, and he knows exactly what to do!

He grabs the bag and runs away from that messy place. His speed was increasing whenever his puppy's face flashed inside him. He entered the campus of the '+' building, where he gets his daily bread.

Not knowing whom to contact, he entered the building for the first time and saw a person with a white coat. Running to his feet, he placed the bag in front and bent with his ears down. A pearl drop tear rolled down.

Apprehensive of the very rare situation, the person opened the bag carefully and was shocked. Without any further delay, the white coat person revived the thing. The stray witnessed a first breath with his own eyes.

His heart began to slow down and was about to stop. He limped around, catching his own breath, and lay down under a lamppost with a long, deep breath. A gentle breeze blew. The red flag from the post fell over his back like a cape of Superman. The white coat person gave a soft kiss on his forehead. His last breath gave a new birth (stray) in this earth.

A stray dog (He) who found a bag with a newborn infant thrown away in a garbage tin was saved by taking it to a doctor in the hospital building, where he roams every day aimlessly!

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Gowtham S

Mar 13, 2025

Good one. Keep writing.

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Tahmineh

Mar 3, 2025

The story was beautiful and I really enjoyed it

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Basker Rascal

Feb 20, 2025

Great narration! Keep your work !

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Saibalaji

Feb 20, 2025

Awesome story, all the masterpiece of yours need a revision once again it gets over, because always you hold some suspense throughout the story and carry all of us very focused with each and every bits of the story till the end. Great narration. I was running behind there along with the Star(stray) and want to express my gratitude to that great soul ..

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