A SHADOW IN THE WOOD

Chapter 1

It was a dark  winter’s night, and in  Paramos,  Mr. Award was taking  his usual walk in the mountain wood before that he return home, when suddenly he heard a gunshot coming from the country, he was scared, and he began to walk fast . In the forest he heard the sound of trampled leaves increasingly strong, as if something was coming near him . He could see a man running toward him, then Award hid near a rock to avoid him . Award could not recognize the individual, because he had the face Covered …

Chapter 2

Then avoid the man , Award Lin continued his walk for going back home. When he  arrived in the town, there was lots of people around a something that lied on the floor, near the thing there were lots of police man and photographers, and there was a lot of confusion . Award was going near the thing when a police man stopped him, he says him that nobody could going there, he says that was a died man ; Award asked him  what was the name of the died man, and he says that was Edward Lin. Award couldn’t believing  ! The man that was died was his brother…

Chapter 3

Award came home crying , because his brother was the only member of his family that was in life . Award Lin was a tall and slim man , he had got black hair and blue eyes. He was living in an apartment near a bank. He was kind and generous with everybody and the inhabitants of the country loved him , he was an important people ,  he was a very cultured man, he was engineer, he built lots of buildings of the village . Every Saturday’s night he usually go to tavern in the center of Paramos , he was very sociable an everybody in the city knew him ...

Chapter  4

Award was very sad , he took a chamomile without sugar before going to bed .In the night when he was sleeping , he had a nightmare . In the nightmare there was his brother  that  was  throwing in a trash a sheet  of  paper , Award didn’t recognize what was write on ,then he saw that his brother was walking fast in a street of the town , and a tall man shoot Edward in the head . In that moment Award jumped from the bed, it was morning yet ...  

Chapter 5

In the morning of the day after Award  went to the police station .  The Marshal went to him and said  that the detectives are working a lot to find some clues. In the afternoon Award came back home, and he through to find the assassin of his brother ,he thought that the assassin could be two individuals : the butler of the house of his brother ,  he was very angry with Edward because he mistreated him . Edward was a famous doctor and he worked in Paramos for twenty years. He lived in a big house in a street of Paramos . The second individual was Jhon a mason , his brother was died by a rare disease ,and Edward wasn’t able to cure him ...

Chapter 6

The day after Award remembered that in the nightmare of two days ago , his brother was throwing in a trash a sheet of paper. He went to the office of his brother to find the letter of the nightmare, after 2 minutes he found a letter that was from an anonym person  . The letter said: ”Bye ,bye you’ll die” .  He took the letter and came home, because he had to build a house , and he had to speak to Jhon ,but Jhon wasn’t present and wrote a letter to Award for apologized. Then Award returned at home and after dinner was looking the letter of his brother and the letter of Jhon . Award jumped from the chair ! The handwriting was the same .He called an expert of handwriting ,that told him that was the same person …

Chapter  7

Award was very angry , at one o’clock a.m. he took a knife and went to Jhon’s house .Award wanted to avenge his brother ,then he entered from the wind of a  bedroom where Jhon was sleeping . Award was going to kill him ,but he changed idea , and called the police that arrested him . After the arrest of Jhon; Award returned to be happy and sociable with everybody in the city and knew a beautiful girl that lived with him for all his life .

A SHADOW IN THE WOOD 

written by Leonardo Paolini