The history of the place had less to say compared to the rush in the market place as he stood there trying to find the address of the shop. He had picked a book on the town from the last gas station some two hundred miles away and had got ample time to glance through it. History was always his baby and he loved to know more about a place even if he only had to stop there for a [...]
“Crown Theatre” He said getting into an auto. The auto driver starts moving and turns on the charge meter. But he interrupts the driver and asks “How much?” “Give me what is in the meter” Said the Auto Driver “But this is a return route for you” He said “You would have gone back the whole way without a passenger if I had not got in” The auto driver stopped the auto which had already started to move and he [...]
This Flash Fiction is Written for the Flash Fiction Friday Cycle 69 Challenge “Let us toss the coin” She said “what?” He asked “Heads you win, Tails I win” She said “And I will give you three choices” “OK” He said still unsure “You can choose to toss with your coin, or you can choose to toss with my coin” She said and looked at him. “And what is the third choice?” He asked “For the third choice you will [...]
There is so much written about what happens around us and how things are not the way it should be and why it should change. But beyond the words written, it sometimes takes real people with a mission to make the change. Thomas Pluck and Fiona Johnson and Ron Earl Phillips are those real people for me. They have collected thirty tales that were written online and collated them into an anthology, the proceeds of which will go to PROTECT [...]
It is late today as well. The days when I have a valid reason to not miss the right train, it will invariably be late. I guess the fact is that my valid reasons are not the basis on which the world around me runs. It has its own reasons and I am just a minuscule piece of this whole drama. It sucks, but you got to live with it. As I try to avoid the look of discontent in [...]
He looked at her as she moved on to the building wall and bent into the alley. He was positive that he would get another chance to fall on her sometime that noon itself before he vanished for the day. He was forced to take an opposite route which according to him would probably take him ahead of her at the next cross street, but he had to wait and see. He moved faster than he expected disappearing and reappearing [...]
“Are you corrupted?” the monkey repeated the question when he saw that the man was not responding. The man looked up “I am civilized” he replied. “Beep! Wrong answer” cried the monkey who had his buzzer in its hand. “I will ask you again and this time give me a straight answer, Are you corrupted” “Not really, but if you ask…” the man started fumbling. The monkey became impatient and so it rephrased the question “Do you take bribe” “No [...]
“It does not matter that you have to travel a long way; At least we are coming to end of this journey” He looked at her as she held on tightly to his hands. “You know that you don’t belong here, Don’t you?” He asked her and she nodded without looking at him. Her mind was still set on the street which has been her home and world for all the time she has known. He had often told her [...]
He tuned in his torn piece of cloth he has been calling ‘blanket’ for the past two months. He had a better living standard in the cell that he was confined to for the past six years. The top part of the cardboard piece he slept on was still damp from a recent shower. He remembered the day they came to his house and said he was to stand trial. He also remembered the various faces come before him and [...]
He jumped inside and looked around. It was almost full. He found one seat in the middle row that had a vacant chair. He moved towards it trying not to stamp on the bunch of people who were already there. He took his seat and looked at the elderly man sitting next to him. “Hi, I thought I was late” He said with a smile. “No you are just in time” Said the old man “Good, when did you come?” [...]
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The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology
