The dark shadow emerged from the alley and began to follow the young woman as she made her way to the bus stop to go home. Half a block away from the bus stop she stopped and hesitated; she saw the muggers shadow approaching.
Being a small woman, she knew she could not escape the mugger once he made his final move towards her and her bag. Knowing this, she held her bag even tighter towards her body and darted across the deserted street.
No person was around to witness what was happening; the mugger engaged towards the woman and also darted after her. As he crossed the street, the bus she was supposed to be on collide with the man instantly killing him.
The mugger now laid in the street taking his last final breaths as the woman watched from the sidewalk on the other side of the street. She slowly approached him as the life was leaving his body and said the last words he ever heard..."are you satisfied now...?"
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In the final moments of the muggers life, an ambulance had arrived and successfully revived him. He was lucky to be alive and everyone was shocked he was still breathing. He had suffered from 8 broken bones and brain damage; he would never be the same again.
Later the next day as the mugger laid in his hospital bed, his ex wife had heard the terrible news and thought about going to visit him. The wife was skeptical about visiting him for they had been divorced for several years; though they were both still very much in love.
Deciding to finally visit her ex husband and tell him how she still felt about him, on the way to the hospital the woman who he had attempted to mug her before was carpooling with her friend to work when her car had struck and killed her instantly right in front of the hospital.
The mugger did not know who the person was crossing the street to get to the hospital, but saw the aftermath of the incident and questioned what could have happened. He suddenly thought about his one love in life, the woman who had just died in front of the hospital trying to see him.
In the following weeks as he recovered in the hospital one phrase was stuck in his head that he could not shake..."are you satisfied now...?"
Authors Note
This was my adaptation from a story I read earlier this week entitled the Coyote and Porcupine. In the original, animals were used instead of humans and the porcupine had came back to life several times after the coyote had beaten it. After coming back, the porcupine eventually tortured him and his entire family getting the final sweet revenge. This original story I must say was quite brutal, especially with animals. I wanted to make a more modern adaptation of this using a very common example, a mugger who is after a woman's purse after she gets off her late night shift.
Bibliography
This is an adaptation of the original story entitled the Coyote and Porcupine, by Pliny Early Goddard in 1911.
