The Pearl, The Peril and The Pain

The Earth looks like an ocean pearl, somewhere in space exhibiting the shade of indigo with hints of greenish hues. From here, it is distant but it gets closer and larger by the minute. The field of view of my spaceship that showed a sphere soon turns to a crescent-shaped earth, now radiating white clouds...

Possibilities

There are a lot of unsaid things in my head than in my real life. I simply refuse to speak up for the sheer simplicity of having another opinion out there and more opinions around it then. Silence is not the ideal solution given that the fact of the matter is, not always being silent...

The lit Room

I have been to a lot of parties… None of them have really encompassed me or accepted me. Given that I don’t dance but I really enjoy the music. I really enjoy discussing life at length, the tragedies, and the comedies of day-to-day life. Sadly, none understands these nuances of our shrill lives and who...

In a heartbeat

In the next 10 minutes, exactly after 2 metro stations, I will get down at my destination. As soon as I get off the metro, I would stumble into a girl carrying the book “Burning the Midnight Oil”. The book will fall on the ground and I would recollect it. While giving it back to...

Happy Birthday!

I peep out of the window as much as I can, the grill of the window is wet with rain droplets. The drops touch my nose and almost make me sneeze. The sun is alternating between the dark clouds and the train is alternating between stations and bridges. This makes the sunlight and shadows both...

Character Arc

My armband beeps loudly, there is a holographic pop-up of a news channel: "Popular author Rick Seghal has been missing for 3 days, anybody who finds him will be rewarded with a hefty amount by his family and there have been no leads, no enemies whatsoever…." I drift away in my thoughts of how much...

The garden of jobs

There is this square garden, perfectly square and perfectly symmetrically. The plants are spaced evenly. The gardener comes and waters the plants daily, at earlier few months the plants grow similarly in height and in terms of health. The leaves are perfectly green in color. As weeks turn into months and as months transition into...

Smoking kills

The only sound there is, it's of the bus's tire gushing across the rainwater on streets. It is painfully sharp yet soothing the silence in the best possible way. The bus stops, nobody is there is the bus except the driver and me. No ticket collector, no tickets, no questions asked or information is given...

The truck of life

A bag packer gets down from a red bus across the street. He has a huge haversack at his back, he is surrounded by the crowd who got down at the bus stop. It seems like this is the last stop as the bus is almost empty and it drives past further… The crowd moves...

The passenger

“.. in these unprecedented times, the little things shouldn’t be taken lightly. these are the things that make our lives happier...” the radio’s voice is interrupted by a loud static, as I drive through a long tunnel on the expressway. The static annoyed me a little, so I turn off the radio. I think to...