And So, I Brought Her Dandelions
The coffee pot was steaming. The buns are being toasted in the oven, and the silverware is shining, ready to be filled with hot food for breakfast. Nitara was dressing Kyra for school, doing her ponies and tying them with pretty blue ribbons. Warm sunlight streamed in through the high glass windows, the fresh morning breeze inviting a workman like me to a crisp, exciting day ahead. The world was unmindfully spinning out just another day. Everything was overly perfect, immaculate, sublime. To the point of perfection where a man begins to slip into the eerie realm of unease…
Is it really happening? Is it not? Am I in a surreal state of bliss? What if I wake up point-blank to a mundane, gloomy morning, in stark contrast to this happy day? I’ll get into depression, I’m sure. What if cats were actually dogs and dogs were wolves, what if roses were dandelions and dandelions really were snakes? Well, I’d [আরো পড়ুন]
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The Re-rise
It was pitch black, as black as it could be at the bottom of hell. Yet, a warm moist endless vacuum clung heavily, almost embracing me at the point of the rise of my consciousness. I realised I was taking birth. I lay stark awake, gathering my surroundings. Where have I come? In the numbing darkness, questions haunt me about my being. Am I born well past the apocalypse, after the universe had died into the null and the void? Will I lay in eternal darkness for the rest of my days? More importantly, then, who am I after all? What is my origin?
A shrill cry somewhere overhead made me break free of my reverie and intuitively pop my head out the surface. Oh, blinding light! I shut my optical sensors as I just began to realise, I was not levitating in the endless cosmos. I am serenely embedded on the surface of the Earth. The moist embrace is all soil and water. Now, light [আরো পড়ুন]
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INVION
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Ben was sitting alone on a creaky wooden stool at the edge of the river, one hand idly swinging his fishing net into the almost still waters and the other stroking his beloved Labrador, Daphne. The lone eyes wandered far into the misty shadowed horizon, searching for nothing.
This very usual day seemed strangely unusual to Ben in many ways. He was a lone person in his early fifties, living far away from the hustle and bustle of the city in his own secluded cottage house. Otherwise content in his farming and reading books, the only passion he loved to indulge in was gazing out into the distant planets, trying to fathom its finiteness in the infinity. Not that he was an astrophysicist or even a stargazer. But he felt he could feel a signal now and then as if expecting something, though none of his neighbors could fathom what.
‘Bizarre Ben,’ they would call him. He had no friends save his much-adored pet. Together they went out on strolls and occasionally on a fishing spree.
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