July Story Contest
Loved Once More: The Story of my Gelding
By: Paint_Pastures
Age: 13I was taken from her, as I stared into her heart broken hazel eyes I saw the brutal pain and the tears that rolled out of them. She loaded me onto the trailer. I thought the man the took me was nice, until he got me home. He forced me into a dark small stall with no food or water for days. Then One Day I saw A Bright light. It pained me to look at it. It was the he had a tiny saddle a thin saddle blanket and a bridle. He tacked me up, not knowing what was going to happen. He hopped up onto my back, but my body could not take the weight of the portly man, I collapsed he fell on to the ground with a big thud. His face turned a bright red. He slowly aroused. Me still lying there limp, he lifted his foot and dug it into my sides feeling the steel toes touching my ribs. After the longest and most painful minutes passed he stopped. Made get up untracked me and put me back in the stall. I managed to kick him hard enough to knock him down. I darted as fast as I could to the forest. I was traveling for a day until I saw a familiar farm, it was her house. I started to gallop again, up their driveway. I slowed when I came to the pasture. She was sitting there crying by my favorite willow. I walked up to her. She didn't notice me at first so I neighed the happiest neigh I have even made. She looked up. Wiped the tears from her mournful eyes, looked at me and smiled. She stood up and hugged my once lean neck. I was home. The Vet came out and fixed my wounds and the man was up in jail for animal cruelty. And I... I was loved once more.