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THOUGHT FOR YOUR SOUL
THE BABY
Avinav Chel
The air had a stench of blood
around her. She could hear
clamours and murmurs in the
vicinity. The cries of human pain
and fear of death made a ghastly
cocktail as if it were to be served to
please Hades of the Underworld.
As the comatose effect began to
give way to conscience and
consciousness, she realized that
she was in the Emergency ward of
a hospital and hadn’t yet left
mortal realm.
It was about a year ago, she met
him at a wedding ceremony of one
of her friends. They had a few timid
glances exchanged and before they
could realize, what was supposed
to be a wedding ceremony turned
out be their first date! And then
the two began their first flight into
the unexplored horizon of love. A
girl in her late teens, she thought
life was going to be all roses with
him by her side. Teenage at the
best can be summarized as the
most turbulent phase of our lives
where we grapple hard to catch
hold of maturity unwilling to
accept the fact that maturity has a
linear curve on the axis of time.
She couldn’t be an exception. Little
THE DREAM BOX
did she know that she was already
entrenched in the honey trap that
he had laid for her. Camouflaged
under the disguise of an
Innamorato, he had unknowingly
descended upon her life destined
to pull her life down to ruins.
The charm of his physical attributes
and the prospects of perfect life
away from the plagues of the world
was too flinty for her tender heart
to resist dragging her to a world of
magical realism. And away she
went with him in pursuit of a better
future. Soon enough the wheels of
the bus screeched to a halt and
with it her journey to her life of
dreams. As she set her foot out of
the bus embracing this new city,
she noticed a subtle change in his
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