Life's Purpose_Infinite Blue_One Last Chance_Pranav Bisht
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Life's Purpose
Eighty-three years. Eighty-three years of struggle and work. Eighty-three long years of exhaustion and pain, heartbreak, and devastating sorrow. Raising babies for them to wrestle with life just to produce more babies to raise. Eighty-three years and this is where she ends up. Irene looked about her in the brightly lit cafeteria where residents of Oak and Pine Senior Home ate their food, if you can call it that. The mush in front of her was supposed to be meatloaf and soft carrots, but the smell radiated that of something dead and rotting. She had no appetite.All those years gone to end up her...
Infinite Blue
Erin remembered thinking, even in the early days, that the most gruesome tragedies often had innocent beginnings. Perhaps therein lies the tragedy, when the Fates realize that a pure love has flourished in an unseen corner of the world, tangles of blossoms drawing life from deepening roots in the shade of fallen trees only to emerge, radiant, when the shadows could contain them no longer. The balance must be restored; the cycle continues.When she met Charlene, Erin had already spent four months as a gatekeeper of sorts, the aide to a general, tasked with keeping her graying ward on course desp...
One Last Chance
“You need anything Mr. Abbott?” the nurse asked as she completed pumping nausea medicine and steroids into the bag that the chemo would drip from.“Michael,” Michael said with a warm smile as he retrieved a novel from his knapsack and placed it onto his lap. “Michael, I’m Mary,” the nurse corrected herself. “What book are you reading?” she asked, looking down at the novel that appeared on her patient’s lap. Michael glanced down at the novel and ran his hand along the front carefully, admiring the cover. “My granddaughter wrote this; can you believe it?” he asked with a sparkle in his eye. “Onlwww.onedoor.cc...
Pranav Bisht
__________________________________________“How many times have I asked you to get a mobile phone? '', he recalls his maa yelling, “even I got one”. “Maa you don’t know the mobile phone; how can you speak to someone you don’t know” Oh my poor dumbo, what would happen to you after I am gone, you don’t speak to the mobile phone, you speak to the person who is on the phone” “No maa, the person on the phone is the devil, it’s not the person speaking, it’s the devil. “You mean your aunt Kavita is a devil” He gave her the “cmon even you know it’s true” look. Pranav did not understand why he was th...