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The Rain of 2041
All I ever knew were masks. My mother sometimes showed me her whole face, but only if we were out in the open, far away from anyone else; and she only could show me her smile for 10 seconds at a time. We weren't allowed to take them off. She used to tell me stories of the days without masks. She told me that a virus made everyone sick, when she was 6 years old. She said the Earth wasn't ready for a pandemic of that size. The different nations had started wars with each other over vaccines and supplies. It got so bad that many nations turned to nuclear war. The radiation spread faster than th...
A Matter Of Choice
Mandy stood in the kitchen trying to decide whether to have toast or cornflakes for breakfast, then thought it made more sense to first hang out the wash she had done last evening. The more sun and wind it got the better, although there was a likelihood of rain later, so perhaps she would wait until she returned from her part time job at the print shop. She enjoyed her job. People just put their items in the copier and she made as many copies as they required, then handed them back their master copy .....nothing to decide, no choices to make....if only life was like that .Having decided on por...
Nanda's Diary
2nd/April/2014Zaki, an intelligent guy, a straight 'A' student, was going to fail his end of academic year exams because of my dubious behavior.Zaki and I knew each other from Secondary School. He hated me because I could alwayswww.onedoor.cc outsmart him in Mathematics. However, he ended up being my 'mesho' in college and we instantly became friends. 'Mesho' was a colloquial name for a roommate. Zaki was a needy student just like most of us were. And we would, proudly, joke about it. It was some sort of a swag to be at a prestigious college but needy. It symbolized that ghetto ‘yuthi’, the underprivileged,...
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“Now who in blazes put that crap in your head?” The lip quivers, but no sound comes out. “Quit your bellyaching and get in the car!”“...but, DaaahHhhd!”“No ’but’s!” He towers over the young boy, shivering from the cold ever since the blanket was ripped off of his sleeping frame. “If that rear isn’t in the backseat and strapped in by the time I count to five, you’re not gonna like what happens next and it’s gonna make the car ride that much more uncomfortable... and we’re gonna be in there a while.”Small eyes go wide. “How long?”“It’s time to go! One...” Feet scurry and a buckle clicks.xxx“Dann...