A Secured Limbo_Blue Skies_A Day in the Life_Arriving in Dreamland
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A Secured Limbo
*Trigger Warning* The events in this story were inspired by the recent K-12 school tragedies, pre-COVID. “If you don’t get married, you will die!” my mother yelled at me as soon as the door closed.“I’ll die anyway!” I yelled back. “That’s life. Everyone that lives DIES. You and Dad are the ones that don’t get that! I’m tired of having the same argument weekend after weekend! Just stop!”#In my culture, at the moment we are born, a seer comes to see our future. Our parents can choose to tell us what that future is, or they can choose to forego and seal that decision in an envelope until the chil...
Blue Skies
Blue SkiesMartha’s boss, Walter, caught her eye as she pulled www.onedoor.ccher pay envelope from her box. “Let’s talk,” he said. He turned and stepped into his office. Martha didn’t want to miss her bus. When that happened, her whole schedule got thrown off. Ordinarily, getting called into a meeting at day’s end on a Friday would be cause for anxiety. Those meetings were always bad news.Being one of the newspaper’s best ad sales people, Martha wasn’t worried. They needed her.Walter indicated the chair when she entered. There goes the bus, thought Martha. He actually wants to talk. She sat, trying to not l...
A Day in the Life
As warm as it was as Julie and Meagan watched the October sunrise, Meagan could not feel the warmth. The sky gradually lit up as the gold spread across the horizon. The pine trees around the lake lit up yellow for a few minutes before greening again. “How glorious!”, Meagan sighed. Julie could not feel the glory of the sunrise, but she smiled and took Meagan’s cold hand, “I will get you some breakfast,” said Julie over her shoulder. “Sure, whatever you say,” replied Meagan half heartedly. This is it, Meagan thought. We start the day together as we have every morning for the past years, but b...
Arriving in Dreamland
The day was 20th August. The time was 10:30 in the morning. American Airlines had just made a safe landing at the Pittsburgh Airport in the USA. As passengers were gradually making their way out one by one, Joyee got her stuff and followed the queue as she walked out of the airplane. ‘Now, I need to find a way to make a call to mom.’ Joyee said to herself, as she was looking for a phone booth. Almost twenty minutes had passed, but no phone booth came into sight. ‘Excuse me.’ Joyee approached a gentleman who was her co-passenger in the flight, ‘Do you know if there’s a phone booth here? I nee...