Category Archives: Short Stories

The New Place

Recently I’ve shifted from a town to an urban place in a large state. The environment is new to me, so as the people of that city. When you came to know that this “so called new” is not new but the thing you’ve already experienced when you last shifted to that village,seems to make you feel less excited about shifting.

I expected that I’ll get a new chance to change the old me and welcoming my new me,but things were opposite to it. I actually never got a chance to change myself coz I was running out of time.

I expected to have a large group of friends unlike I had none when I was in that village,bht seems like people are already having large groups and not having a little bit space for me to fit in.

I expected that I’ll be busy unpacking the things and making blogs and painting,sometimes singing and dancing,but seems like no one is ready to work according to my expectations.

I expected soon I’ll get a notification that “The XYZ University will reopen this September and be welcoming you with warm hearts”,but it seems like this warm welcome isbfar from me right now and not even interested to give me a welcome hug.

The place which is new to me will soon be not new to me. I am trying to fit myself in this new place hoping for better me,a new me.

Thoughts

I was sitting alone in my living room last friday. My mother and brother was on evening walk. My father is in other state for his own work. I was scrolling down my insta and suddenly heard a sound.

It took me seconds to fright like a cat. My adrenaline was rushing through my body,head to toe. My heart beat started running at a speed of 120 beats/minutes.

My mind didn’t allow me to calm down,instead deadly thoughts came up in my mind every time I heard that sound again.

I dared to move an inch from my sofa.

The sound was coming from my kitchen.

The distance between the main door and the sofa is hardly a meter.

But it looked like it was miles away.

I prayed to god please! Don’t scare me like this. This ain’t funny. Just stop this sound.

Just for knowledge I am telling you,I live in between alot of woods,we can’t say this place a village or town. Its in between that. So it looks like I’m in hill station when it rain heavily and looks very beautiful yet spooky.

So the friends living here used to visit sometimes to me without my permission. They just enters through our kitchen door just to say ‘Hi Dear’,making me freaked out and then left. I mean who loves a friend with only have fangs to talk and bifit tongue to lure.

Somehow I collect all the scattered confidence in me and looked into kitchen.

Guess what……

It was a 🐱

I reconcile my thoughts and my self in a minute,sat down,drank some water and then felt relaxed. Thought my thoughts are the only one killing me from inside,but I can’t resist it and can’t overpower it. Its my bad. Don’t make your’s like that. Okay.

My Shadow

I woke up in the middle of night. There was a little light coming from the side of the door. I get up,closed the door and turned to come back. There I saw my shadow. It was pitch black and was taller then me. The shadow asked me,“Are you happy?” I was standing numb,thinking that what should I say to her,afterall she is my shadow knowing each and every thing going on inside me. The shadow asked again, “Are you not going to reply me?” I said “You know it all,there is nothing hidden inside me.” The shadow grows and become an inch taller. Asking again,“So you don’t need any more of what you have?” I said “No,I am Fine”. The shadow grows an inch taller again. “Don’t lie to me dear.So when are you going to achieve more,I think you should do it now. Go run away from the life you are living now and don’t look back again,just grow bigger and bigger like I am growing inside you.” The shadow grows terribly and start luring me, it was my ego,hatred,hopelessness which was covering me under the name of shadow. I screamed loud,but was non-audible to others. I started getting broken from inside,whose noise was again out of the range of normal human ear. I begged. “Please leave me”. Suddenly the door closed upon and the shadow vanished.

Till the date,my biggest fear is my shadow, unfortunately she is the only one who will never leave me alone.

I wish I would have never let her grow that much.

One little Night

One little night,I had a thought just pop up in my mind. Where I am? Where I have to go? I am judging the huge survivors around me without even achieving a great thing. Where am I? This is the toughest question all the humans used to face once in their live. I was unable to fit myself in the norms of society. I was scared to uplift my feets towards a new path because someone was always there behind me who will pull me down and down and down. I was lost. I had a dream but it was fading away like a shooting star. I was trapped in between my dreams and my DREAM. No one was there to tell me the difference between the two. I tried to summon each and every great lines my forefathers had left for me to gain some strength,but it seems like it starts vanishing from the every corner of my memory. I was messed up it was 4 in the morning and whoosh!!! The one little night gone and another little night was waiting again to blast me off.