Apart from the stunning view, the room had an #additional intrigue: a photo gallery.
On two walls, photos of the rural urban divide.
On the 3rd, a photo of a corridor in an old house, sunlight creeping in reluctantly, a small footprint imprinted on the dark red floor.
#vss365
from an old short story of mine 'Like You and Me' (where Shokie meets her nemesis):
https://newnonentities.blogspot.com/2020/11/like-you-and-me.html
She read the poster in front.
‘Massage, spa, infinity pool, discounts for enema, purgation, vomiting, spiritual and physical rejuvenation, bring out the old you, become the new you.’
"Is this the spiritual #conversion that's going to save us?"
"Fantasy Island 2.0."
#vss365
from
https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2018/05/reunion.html
Her companions always made her parents very uncomfortable. The last one was an insurance agent.
He tried to sell to them an insurance #product which
‘assured kids a happy future, and promised a hefty bonus if the parents met with an untimely demise in the 3rd year’.
#vss365
from
https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2013/04/who-troubled-mrs-vijayan.html
Marriages are made in heaven. We, at Premsucks, create that heaven.
'Ideal partners at an impressionable age': that's not vacuous #promotion.
Take my case. Pa chose Rocky after she floored me with a left hook.
"Her innocent look after the deed decided it," Pa said.
#vss365
The visitors' exit was sullen and hasty.
“What did I do?”
“You didn’t give them what they want.”
“I am new here. They are supposed to give.”
“Is that how it works in the city?”
“Sure. Give and take."
“Do you get any visitors?”
“No, but the principle holds in any #place."
#vss365
from
https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2016/10/bumpkin.html
Her companions always made her parents very uncomfortable. The last one was an insurance agent.
He tried to sell to them an insurance #product which
‘assured kids a happy future, and promised a hefty bonus if the parents met with an untimely demise in the 3rd year’.
#vss365
from
https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2013/04/who-troubled-mrs-vijayan.html
I was not old
When #segmentation
Hit me hard,
In class 3,
In a convent
With boys till 4,
Sr Brenda
Punished me
For whoknowswhat,
"Sit with the girls,"
she said,
"Away from those 6 boys."
Hurts even today,
When I'm with a lady,
I feel the jealousy of 6.
#vss365
#truestory
I bought a time-machine.
Killed Hitler.
Visited Atlantis and Pompeii.
Stopped my parents from marrying.
I came back to the present.
I am still there.
#Customer service says,
"Sorry. No refund."
#vss365
from
https://newnonentities.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-riddle-of-time-machine.html
"Love is like God. When times are good, one assumes that it’s there; when times are bad, one hopes that it’s there; and at other times, who really cares," I said, without much hope in #marketing that to her.
"Anything marketable is certainly worth it," she said.
#vss365
from
https://gatheredthoughts-swapna.blogspot.com/2010/04/for-gods-sake-listen.html
#vss365
The strife that is #life began on these steps no one now dares to tread upon.
We sat down there near the water. On step 1. Sand-mining has taken that. It used to be called the Bathing step.
We made love on the next few steps. Not all the way. She said let's wait till I'm only yours. I was fine with that. I was hers.
These are the Temple steps too. Did we forget that? Did they snatch her from me because of that? That was on step 7.
No one goes even to 20. The place for killers and ghosts, they say. I killed my lot. Before the others. The kid finished me. They keep me alive.
I went with another to 21. She got so scared. Saw the true bloody me, she says. She saw her too. How can she be scared of her? Of love?
I don't go there often. Only when I wake up from nightmares that keep me in a coma. When the vines release my limbs. When the Serpent, the one that leaves the golden trail, lets me breathe just to wish I could not.
I am here, the Sun says. She too.
"Class, for today's Comic Relief, the topic is: #Death. Arjun?"
"Wham! Bam! Thank you, Ma'am.
Grim Reaper says that to all.
Sans gender bias."
"Swapna?"
"It's not always wham,
Can be a careless whisper.
Death is like a fart."
"Out, you two."
"Last Christmas"
"Out!"
#vss365
#haiku #senryu ?
(Apologies to the spirits of GM & Wham!)
She studied the #grief, the determination and the rare smiles. In Court, no case is personal or confidential. At first, it seems like a breach of trust. Later, it is like a cure. Initially, each grievance sounds strange and harsh. Then, just oft-repeated scenes. Life!
#vss365
from an old short story of mine: 'The First Lover'
https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2011/09/first-lover.html
#vss365
Hang by a #thread,
That's the 1st situation in
Mix'd marital arts.
After a decade
Of mating-dating we thought
We knew the other.
That 1st night I shooed
Away her pesky dog,
She said, "I'm Jane Wick."
Morning after, with
My nunu still tied to fan,
We said, "Jane." "Arjun"
She did not have any #luggage to wait for.
"I'll take you home if you will buy for me a cup of coffee."
"Hi," she said softly turning towards him.
For a while, they stood there. With the echoes of silent memories.
"What'll you do if I grab you and kiss you?"
"Try."
#vss365
from an old story of mine, or is it from my diary?
"On the first page of the notes, I saw a date marked near the left margin '17/3/1997'..."
https://discardedthoughts-swapna.blogspot.com/2010/01/just-for-weekend-from-scrap-shop-v.html
