Very Short Story: The Sixth Sense
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It had been very late that usual for her, to leave from office. Since the office was in the outskirt, it was not adviced for any one to go alone late in the night, due to galore of crime perpetrating in the city. She had come in the car today and she remembered her husband asking her "Honey, I would need car tomorrow early morning to go on short expedition which is very important", and
so leaving the car in the office was not a feasible solution. She thought for a while and then after mustering all the courage she spoke to herself "It'a all right Anita, nothing will happen. You just start the car and get going. Do not stop any where in the middle in anycase." She opened the back door of her hatchback car and flung the office bag there in. She started the car and
came out of the office and was bit afraid again due to the dark night. Without giving it a second thought she pressed the gas padel and started the radio. Her favourate song 'Big Yellow Taxi' was coming, which soothed her a bit. She would have travelled only 3-4 miles and was far away from home, she could see one person on moterbike driving in the middle of the road like a maverick. She became roused and wary. The person looked inebriated and could do any thing in drunken stupor. Best thing she could do was to pass by him quickly speeding the car a little more. The moment she crossed him from his right, with above 70 miles/hr, that man started waving and also sped his moterbike towards her car. She got panic and pressed the
accelerator further. Man also started accelerating his moterbike and was coming closer and closer. She was clueless for what to do next. She thought of calling police but could not do, for mobile network was not catching in that area. She was perspiring with fear and her heart was palpitating; She further accelerated and was driving as fast as she could to increase the
distance between her car and the bike chasing her. She saw in the rear view mirror that suddenly there were many moterbikes chasing here......coming closer and closer; Her heart came to her mouth and her whole body became numb. She was completly beleagured by those bikes and she could feel the pang of strong fear. Suddenly her phone started ringing and she was fumbling through her purse to fetch the phone; she could not get it; was it her phone ringing??.. ring tone was something different. She was further groping for her mobile; the incessant sound was unrelenting. And she woke up, to realize her dream and the alarm clock ringing next to her bed. Before she could understand anything, she heard her husband, who was getting ready for his office......"Honey, I would need car tomorrow early morning to go on short expedition which is very important".
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Friday, February 27, 2009
Thursday, February 26, 2009
My Story: From aliterate to Bibliophile
My Story: From aliterate to Bibliophile
(Short Story Blog)
As of Late, reading novels and books became habit of me and start of this turned out to be a watershed in my life. Although I read plethora of the books(for a aliterate like me, more than 50-60 books in the lifetime means deluge) , But I could not finish all the books I started, for number of reasons.
All said and done, there are quiet a few books which I read till the very last page avidly
and admired the author/writer for one or other reason.
Some of the books which I liked are listed hereunder:
Robin Sharma
1) Monk Who Sold His Ferrari - (Little slow but good one)
2) Who will cry when you die - (Each chapter teaches you something useful)
Paulo Coelho
1) Alchemist - No Comments ;-)
Spencer Johnson, MD
1) Who Moved my Cheese - Best book I ever read.
2) The One Minute Manager
Thomas L. Friedman
1) The World Is Flat
Rhonda Byrne
1) The Secret - Might change the way you think, for good.
Anurag Mathur
1) The Inscrutable American (Anurag Mathur at his best)
Mario Puzo
1) The Godfather - Book is much better than Movie
2) The Last Don
Dan Brown
1) DaVinci Code - Book is much better than Movie
2) Deception Point
Khalid Hussaini
1) The Kite Runner - (Excellant debutant work)
2) Thousand Splendid Suns
Jeffrey Archer
1) Twist in the tales - Archer is one of the best n this is his best.
2) Twelve Red Herrings
3) A Quiver Full of Arrows
4) The Prodigal Daugher
5) Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
6) Shall we tell the president
7) Sons of Fortune
8) Cat O'Nine Tales
Taslima Nasrin
1) Lazza
Sidney Sheldon - (Most enthralling story teller)
1) Are you Affraid of Dark
2) Sky is Falling
3) Windmill of The God
4) Sands of Time
5) Starnger in Mirror
6) Best Laid Plan
7) Naked Face
8) Master of the Game
9) Nothing last Forever
10) Morning, Noon and Night
11) Tell Me Your Dreams
12) The Star Shine Down
13) Memories of Midnight
14) If Tomorrow Comes
15) Bloodline
16) Rage of Angels
Yasmina Khadra
1) Sirens of Baghdad - Some credit should be given to John Cullen for excellent translation
Robin Cook
1) Coma
John Grisham
1) The Client - (Best of John in my opinion)
2) The Last Juror
3) The Innocent Man
Faye Kellerman
1) Sanctuary
Sandra Brown
1) Unspeakable
Shobha De
1) Sisters
2) Spouse
3) Second Thoughts
Arvind Adiga
1) The White Tiger
Harper Lee
1) To Kill a Mocking Bird - Excellent Stuff
Sudha Murthy
1) The gentle falls The Bakula
R K Narayanan
1) Malgudi Days - Only Narayanan could write it so well
2) Swami and Friends
Chetan Bhagat
1) Five Point Some one - If you were in IIT or similar place it might be your story
2) One Night @ Call Center
Pervez Musharraf
1) In The Line of Fire : A Memoir - (I found this book written very honestly, without being evasive at all)
Khushwant Singh
1) The Company of Women - Can't say what is special in this book but Khushwant singh is good to read.
2) Khushwant Singh's Joke Book 5
Richard Bach
1) The Bridge Across Forever
Subroto bagchi
1) Go Kiss The World
Jhumpa Lahiri
1) The Namesake
Dean Koontz
1) Watchers
Above all, the one book closest to my heart and always within my reach is - Longman English Dictionary(helps in understanding the nuances of english).
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(Short Story Blog)
As of Late, reading novels and books became habit of me and start of this turned out to be a watershed in my life. Although I read plethora of the books(for a aliterate like me, more than 50-60 books in the lifetime means deluge) , But I could not finish all the books I started, for number of reasons.
All said and done, there are quiet a few books which I read till the very last page avidly
and admired the author/writer for one or other reason.
Some of the books which I liked are listed hereunder:
Robin Sharma
1) Monk Who Sold His Ferrari - (Little slow but good one)
2) Who will cry when you die - (Each chapter teaches you something useful)
Paulo Coelho
1) Alchemist - No Comments ;-)
Spencer Johnson, MD
1) Who Moved my Cheese - Best book I ever read.
2) The One Minute Manager
Thomas L. Friedman
1) The World Is Flat
Rhonda Byrne
1) The Secret - Might change the way you think, for good.
Anurag Mathur
1) The Inscrutable American (Anurag Mathur at his best)
Mario Puzo
1) The Godfather - Book is much better than Movie
2) The Last Don
Dan Brown
1) DaVinci Code - Book is much better than Movie
2) Deception Point
Khalid Hussaini
1) The Kite Runner - (Excellant debutant work)
2) Thousand Splendid Suns
Jeffrey Archer
1) Twist in the tales - Archer is one of the best n this is his best.
2) Twelve Red Herrings
3) A Quiver Full of Arrows
4) The Prodigal Daugher
5) Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
6) Shall we tell the president
7) Sons of Fortune
8) Cat O'Nine Tales
Taslima Nasrin
1) Lazza
Sidney Sheldon - (Most enthralling story teller)
1) Are you Affraid of Dark
2) Sky is Falling
3) Windmill of The God
4) Sands of Time
5) Starnger in Mirror
6) Best Laid Plan
7) Naked Face
8) Master of the Game
9) Nothing last Forever
10) Morning, Noon and Night
11) Tell Me Your Dreams
12) The Star Shine Down
13) Memories of Midnight
14) If Tomorrow Comes
15) Bloodline
16) Rage of Angels
Yasmina Khadra
1) Sirens of Baghdad - Some credit should be given to John Cullen for excellent translation
Robin Cook
1) Coma
John Grisham
1) The Client - (Best of John in my opinion)
2) The Last Juror
3) The Innocent Man
Faye Kellerman
1) Sanctuary
Sandra Brown
1) Unspeakable
Shobha De
1) Sisters
2) Spouse
3) Second Thoughts
Arvind Adiga
1) The White Tiger
Harper Lee
1) To Kill a Mocking Bird - Excellent Stuff
Sudha Murthy
1) The gentle falls The Bakula
R K Narayanan
1) Malgudi Days - Only Narayanan could write it so well
2) Swami and Friends
Chetan Bhagat
1) Five Point Some one - If you were in IIT or similar place it might be your story
2) One Night @ Call Center
Pervez Musharraf
1) In The Line of Fire : A Memoir - (I found this book written very honestly, without being evasive at all)
Khushwant Singh
1) The Company of Women - Can't say what is special in this book but Khushwant singh is good to read.
2) Khushwant Singh's Joke Book 5
Richard Bach
1) The Bridge Across Forever
Subroto bagchi
1) Go Kiss The World
Jhumpa Lahiri
1) The Namesake
Dean Koontz
1) Watchers
Above all, the one book closest to my heart and always within my reach is - Longman English Dictionary(helps in understanding the nuances of english).
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Very Short Story: What is Wrong With Him
Very Short Story: What is Wrong With Him
(This Short Story blog article falls into Short, Funny, Hilarious, Thrilling, Offbeat, Quick to Read Stories category as per author.)
She will not believe it even if he says it on oath; but that was fact; he was deeply in love with her but wanted to stay away as much as possible from her. what is this??? Is this some kind of oxymoron??? Loving but leaving..... What could be the cause of his whimsical behavior?? Was he now bored of her?? His chattering which used to be so fascinating before, could sound like ennui these day....no no... not true. Was he never in love with her?? Difficult to fathom any thing.... all these started from last few days.... before that, he never acted weird like this before for any thing...... now he had become pugnacious...... Do not reply to his call, and he will not pick her call for next few days, without checking out the reason, why she was not picking his call.... he was also not as voluble and jovial as he used to be before.... he became more of reticent and reclusive...... has he got into any bad habit like drugs.... no no... it could never be the case.... he is such a religious teetotaler..... any case of paramour.... no no... even that is not possible.... then what the dickens is matter with him.... why is he not as he used to be before..... adorable... tolerant.... jocular.... he was very sentimental before also, but he never hurt any one...... what he might be thinking these days?? And he was thinking..... "Oh God!! why with me?.. I had found a new life..... things were so fine and I wanted to marry her.... she is the best thing ever happened to me.... may be she should forget me as her past and find a better betterhalf who could accompany her for longer in life than I could have done". He recollects, the doctor had said "not more than few weeks..."
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(This Short Story blog article falls into Short, Funny, Hilarious, Thrilling, Offbeat, Quick to Read Stories category as per author.)
She will not believe it even if he says it on oath; but that was fact; he was deeply in love with her but wanted to stay away as much as possible from her. what is this??? Is this some kind of oxymoron??? Loving but leaving..... What could be the cause of his whimsical behavior?? Was he now bored of her?? His chattering which used to be so fascinating before, could sound like ennui these day....no no... not true. Was he never in love with her?? Difficult to fathom any thing.... all these started from last few days.... before that, he never acted weird like this before for any thing...... now he had become pugnacious...... Do not reply to his call, and he will not pick her call for next few days, without checking out the reason, why she was not picking his call.... he was also not as voluble and jovial as he used to be before.... he became more of reticent and reclusive...... has he got into any bad habit like drugs.... no no... it could never be the case.... he is such a religious teetotaler..... any case of paramour.... no no... even that is not possible.... then what the dickens is matter with him.... why is he not as he used to be before..... adorable... tolerant.... jocular.... he was very sentimental before also, but he never hurt any one...... what he might be thinking these days?? And he was thinking..... "Oh God!! why with me?.. I had found a new life..... things were so fine and I wanted to marry her.... she is the best thing ever happened to me.... may be she should forget me as her past and find a better betterhalf who could accompany her for longer in life than I could have done". He recollects, the doctor had said "not more than few weeks..."
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Very Short Suspense Story: To Cut a Long Story Short
Very Short Suspense Story: To Cut a Long Story Short
(This Short Story blog article falls into Short, Funny, Hilarious, Thrilling, Offbeat, Quick to Read Stories category as per author.)
It was one of those nights, when I was burning midnight oil to achieve success in my early academic career, to get into one of the esteemed technical institute for my bachelor of engineering. It had happened before but I had ignored it; but that night it was something which was drawing my attention again and again. That spooky sound was incessant this time. Although I was not one of the cowardice but I never wanted to prove myself as daredevil as well; I decided to wake my father up who was there in his bedroom. It was Dawn...but the ghost visit only in the night... could it be a doppelganger, as read in some of the stories; what am I talking about; there is nothing like ghost or doppelganger; it's all in story only; but these is something; would it be a thief who would be keeping eye since last few nights to break into. I remember waking up one morning and finding my house's main door latched from outside, certainly it was not a prank played by any of our neighbours. There might be gang on hoodlums; newspapers are also talking about increase crime rates in city. These hoodlums close the laches of all the neighbors houses, so that they may not come out of their houses to help, and then these thugs will target one specific house
for dacoity. Anyway, I decided to read out loudly, the line of my book opened in front of me. May be, the sound might let the intruder/intruders know that someone is awake at home. The moment I started reading loudly the sound which was coming before stopped for a while but it again started. I thought it would be good to keep the eyes close and pretent to sleep; never knowing that I would really go into sleep and will wake up only in the morning with sun up and shining. Everyone was astir at home by that time; I was looking avidly on everyone's face to check if anything wrong noticed after last night.... but no... nothing at all. But still thought of sharing this with my father; father also agreed that there might be some miscreants who could have come for stealing petty things lying outside of the house, but they might have not found any thing so significant to pick from our yard, surrounding the house. He also asked me to wake him up next time anything similar happens. Next couple of nights went by without any sound. what was this sound like???? Well, we had a backyard full of trees and in autumn these trees will defoliate; all the dried leaves will be lying on the ground to form a thick carpet; and if any body moves on that it makes a sound; it was exactly that; somebody moving surreptitiously from one window to another window of the house. Again that sound came and luckily it was afternoon this time and I could dare to stir from my place; advance towards the window; unlatching it slowly to avoid making any sound; and in one blow opened it to see who is on the other side. But what is this??... no one there.... then from where this sound is coming?? Oh my god!... can you believe it is a little squirrel that was
moving in search of the food and creating this sound....
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(This Short Story blog article falls into Short, Funny, Hilarious, Thrilling, Offbeat, Quick to Read Stories category as per author.)
It was one of those nights, when I was burning midnight oil to achieve success in my early academic career, to get into one of the esteemed technical institute for my bachelor of engineering. It had happened before but I had ignored it; but that night it was something which was drawing my attention again and again. That spooky sound was incessant this time. Although I was not one of the cowardice but I never wanted to prove myself as daredevil as well; I decided to wake my father up who was there in his bedroom. It was Dawn...but the ghost visit only in the night... could it be a doppelganger, as read in some of the stories; what am I talking about; there is nothing like ghost or doppelganger; it's all in story only; but these is something; would it be a thief who would be keeping eye since last few nights to break into. I remember waking up one morning and finding my house's main door latched from outside, certainly it was not a prank played by any of our neighbours. There might be gang on hoodlums; newspapers are also talking about increase crime rates in city. These hoodlums close the laches of all the neighbors houses, so that they may not come out of their houses to help, and then these thugs will target one specific house
for dacoity. Anyway, I decided to read out loudly, the line of my book opened in front of me. May be, the sound might let the intruder/intruders know that someone is awake at home. The moment I started reading loudly the sound which was coming before stopped for a while but it again started. I thought it would be good to keep the eyes close and pretent to sleep; never knowing that I would really go into sleep and will wake up only in the morning with sun up and shining. Everyone was astir at home by that time; I was looking avidly on everyone's face to check if anything wrong noticed after last night.... but no... nothing at all. But still thought of sharing this with my father; father also agreed that there might be some miscreants who could have come for stealing petty things lying outside of the house, but they might have not found any thing so significant to pick from our yard, surrounding the house. He also asked me to wake him up next time anything similar happens. Next couple of nights went by without any sound. what was this sound like???? Well, we had a backyard full of trees and in autumn these trees will defoliate; all the dried leaves will be lying on the ground to form a thick carpet; and if any body moves on that it makes a sound; it was exactly that; somebody moving surreptitiously from one window to another window of the house. Again that sound came and luckily it was afternoon this time and I could dare to stir from my place; advance towards the window; unlatching it slowly to avoid making any sound; and in one blow opened it to see who is on the other side. But what is this??... no one there.... then from where this sound is coming?? Oh my god!... can you believe it is a little squirrel that was
moving in search of the food and creating this sound....
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