An Adventure in El Dorado – A Short Fiction Story

Author: hargunsinghtikku October 13, 2015 0 Comments

I was browsing books in a library when I found a face in a shelf. I touched the face and I was sucked by something magical. And then I was sucked into the gap into a whole new world. When the light faded away, I found myself in a Forest. I decided to go ahead and after 5 minutes, found myself facing a river with big green-brown crocodiles in it. I found a log lying on the ground and after a lot of pushing and rolling, I made a bridge and went to the other side. While on the bridge a crocodile tried to attack me and it was a near miss. When I finally reached the other side of the river I found a dead end which was covered with bushes and swarming with snakes and insects. I tried to remove them by poking them with a branch but in vain. One snake had shifted from his place but hadn’t fallen from the bush so I could see through that small hole and behind it I saw a village, where houses were made of gold and there were very few people but all of them were happy. Every house had a big farm next to it which had cinnamon sown in it. There was also a very big temple in the exact center of the village and I recognized it at once to be El Dorado, a mythical land of gold and cinnamon. But just then the snakes got violent probably because I had poked them and attacked me, so I ran as fast as I could and while running I fell into a hole and a second later, I found myself back in the library. Everything was like it was when I was sucked in. I turned around to check the time and saw that not even a minute had passed whereas I had spent an hour in the jungle. Then I realized that it was something magical that transported me from one place and time period to another through a time machine and transported me back through the hole I fell into.