The Rainbow's End
By Peter Halder
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Two wonderful, entertaining, captivating and enchanting fantasy tales. A little girl, bored with her dull life, prays to the powers above to grant her wish for attention, friendship and adventure. Her prayer is answered. She is transported along a rainbow to The Rainbow’s End where she enjoys attention, friendship and adventure in Rainbow Land. The Arabian Nights tale, Saladin The Brave, is filled with magic and adventure. A daring, bold and brave young man, Saladin, embarks on a dangerous mission to save his village and its people from destruction. The pair of splendid tales are a treat for all ages.
Peter Halder
Peter Halder is the pen name of Burnett Alexander Halder. He was born in Guyana, formerly British Guyana, and educated there, the United Kingdom and the University of the West Indies in Trinidad and Tobago.Peter worked as a journalist and later joined the Government Service. He served in District Administration, Licence Revenue and Foreign Affairs. As a diplomat, he was Deputy Head of Mission, Guyana Embassy, Washington D.C., U.S.A. and subsequently appointed High Commissioner to Canada. He resigned and accepted an appointment as a Consultant with the Government of Fiji. He later became a Consultant with the Fiji Embassy to the U.S.A. and after, with the Fiji Permanent Mission to the United Nations.Peter received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Guyana Cultural Association of New York, USA and Editor’s Awards from The National Library of Poetry, Maryland, USA. His first book, The Cat of Muritaro, was published in 2012. He has a blogsite at www.peterhalder.wordpress.com/ at which his nostalgias, articles, short stories, and poems can be read.He is now retired and lives with his family in Virginia, U.S.A.
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The Rainbow's End - Peter Halder
THE RAINBOW’S END
Two Super Fantasy Tales
By Peter Halder
The Rainbow’s End
Copyright © Peter Halder, 2015
First Published 2015
Smashwords edition
eBook edition published by
DCO Books
Proglen Trading Co., Ltd.
Bangkok Thailand
http://ebooks.dco.co.th
ISBN 978-616-7817-57-6
Cover Design and Editing by Philip Small
All Rights Reserved
This book is a work of fiction. All names, characters, and other elements of the story are either the product of the author's imagination or else are used only fictitiously. Any resemblance to real characters, living or dead, or to real incidents, is entirely coincidental.
This book is dedicated to my wife, children and grandchildren
CONTENTS
The Rainbow’s End
Saladin the Brave
About the Author
THE RAINBOW’S END
Amanda
Amanda had everything a little girl her age could want. She had a caring mother and father. They gave her everything she needed and wanted.
Amanda's parents owned a beautiful home in which she had her own room. Her room had so many clothes, shoes, toys, books and games that there was hardly any space to walk. Yet Amanda felt unhappy. And she felt bored.
Since both her father and mother worked, she felt sad that they had little time for her. They met together for a short time in the mornings and at the dinner table in the evenings. Her mother gave her a kiss when she was dropped off at school and as far as Amanda was concerned that was all the affection she got.
At weekends, her mother did a heap of household chores and had little time for her. Her father was seldom at home. The house was full but for Amanda it was empty. She was together with her parents but yet, in her thinking, they were apart.
Now if she had a brother or a sister, things would have been different, she often told herself. There would have been someone near her age to talk to, to share ideas with, to play with and to hang out with. But she was an only child and feeling the loneliness of it.
Her parents, their lives, their world and their ideas were miles apart from hers. Amanda saw her life with them drifting apart day after day. It made her so unhappy and so bored.
Amanda longed for attention to herself, for friendship and for adventure. Having all the other things did not really matter. When she tried to talk to her parents about her views, she was brushed aside.
You're too young to be thinking about such things,
Her mother would say, when you grow up, things will be different.
As if children did not have a life of their own, Amanda said to herself.
Weekends were most unhappy and most boring for Amanda. She had nothing to do and two whole days to do it. On weekdays, when she was at school, she was happy. She had many friends in her class and they chatted, shared ideas and played together. Oh how she wished it was the same at home in the evenings and at weekends.
She spent most weekends lying under a tall, oak tree in the backyard, looking up at the squirrels jumping from limb to limb. Her gaze often strayed beyond to the sky above. The deep blue sky, the grey puffs of passing clouds and the bright rays of the sun that lit up the earth beneath held her attention. Thoughts of what other things were in the sky but so far away that she could not see them, kept her mind busy.
One day, a great idea flashed through her tender, young mind. Why not ask the sky above for what she wished for so much. After all, she told herself, the sun gives us the day, the moon gives us light at night and the clouds give us rain without which we cannot live. If anyone can help me, the sky above can, she told herself.
Amanda kept flashing the idea through her mind weekend after weekend until she was able to convince herself to do it. But she kept it to herself since she did not want anyone to think that she was crazy. Time passed and Amanda somehow could not work up enough courage to do it.
One weekend, Amanda spoke to her mother about her unhappiness and her loneliness and her need for attention, friendship and adventure. Her mother called her ungrateful and sent her to her room. Filled with tears, the child ran to her room and slammed the door shut. She threw herself on her bed and wept bitterly.
As she lay on her bed, the idea returned to her mind again. The tears flowing down her red cheeks gave her courage. She decided it was time to act. Amanda dried her tears. She put on a lovely blue dress, at the top of which was a hand-knitted image of the sun smiling and rays of light flowing from it. She put on her white socks and blue shoes. She combed her short blonde hair and put on a bonnet. She was ready to act.
She climbed through her bedroom window, stepped on the limb of the tree next to the window and easily climbed to the ground. She ran quickly to her favorite tree in the backyard and lay on the ground under it. The day was sunny and warm. A lovely cool breeze flowed under the tree. Amanda looked up at the sky and tears flooded her eyes at the thought of what she was about to do.
Amanda Seeks Divine Help
The child managed to close her eyes, in spite of the tears flowing from them, and told herself: