La Extraña Desaparición de Josué (Es/ En)

The Juarez family had moved to this small town far from the city, tired of the hustle and bustle of the city, they decided to make a radical decision; They decided to sell everything, house, cars, the family business, and they launched into this new adventure to this town that they had known on vacation with some friends and they did not forget its pleasant climate, although somewhat cold, the exuberant nature and the kindness of the people who lived there, although they seemed somewhat shy, at least that was the first impression they got, but that would be because they were tourists, but surely when they lived there everything would change, that's what they thought. .

They had bought a small farm, where they had a few farm animals and their own vegetable garden. The Juarez's, a married couple with 3 children of 9, 6 and 3 years old, saw everything ideal to raise their little ones, Juan, Maria and little Joshua, who being the youngest, was the most curious. Together with his siblings, they were always investigating something around, playing and jumping around. As soon as they arrived and settled in their new home, their new neighbors, who were somewhat distant, went to introduce themselves with a cake as was the custom, and after the welcome coffee and a piece of cake, they proceeded to tell them about the community where they had come to live.

They were told that the land there was very fertile, that everyone worked in the fields, and one last curious recommendation said as if carelessly. That they should always be at home when the fog was falling, since it was not advisable to walk in the fields when this happened, because inexplicable things could happen. Without saying more, they said goodbye, leaving the couple astonished, who looked at each other's faces with gestures of disbelief. They tried to hide a faint chuckle that wanted to jump at their visitors, barely managing to do so. After they left, they told each other that these were the beliefs of these people and they did not mind this silly comment, so they considered it...Silly.

The days passed the months and everything was going smoothly, everyone had become accustomed to the hustle and bustle of the countryside, even the boys, they had walked along the creek behind the farm, the corral of the animals and even knew where the sheep hid when they escaped from the dogs. Curiously, when the fog was falling, everybody was finishing their day and they always arrived home at the right time when it was falling; but one does not have control of everything and one afternoon when everything was going as usual, dad in his old tractor harvesting the field, mom busy in her vegetable garden and the children looking around the field; everybody went into the house as usual at nightfall....

First mom to prepare dinner, then dad to take a shower for dinner and lastly the children came in hopping around, starving for food; but that afternoon John and Mary came in, except little Joshua; the children said that he was playing with a group of butterflies the last time they saw him and then they stopped seeing him and thought he had gotten bored and had returned home; finally the children did not see anything strange in this. But the reality was that little Joshua had not gone home, and although they went out in the fog with lanterns and torches, they could not find little Joshua anywhere....

The next morning the whole town had already heard about the disappearance of the child and although they were sorry and tried to help in the search for him, this disappearance did not surprise them, because it was not the first one that had occurred in those lands, since several of its members, all children, had disappeared, but at different times and it had always been when that cold fog began to fall and although the Juarez family had been tired of looking for their little ones, they had not found them. ... years passed and the Juarez family tried to stay in that farm, hoping that he would appear, which did not happen, besides nothing was the same and they ended up leaving that strange place, without knowing anything more about their beloved Joshua...