tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80977795968650006402024-03-05T05:08:56.354-08:00Wayfarer100-word stories.
Of everyday chaos,
and the tell-tale heart.Sayantan Sunny Ghoshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00152573393713620442noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8097779596865000640.post-43135037833794837292015-06-24T11:51:00.000-07:002015-06-24T11:51:09.237-07:00Creepy Poem<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Creepy poem</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Vengeful ghosts</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Midnight dinner</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Spirits raising toast.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sharpened teeth</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Crystal voice </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Nightcrawler moon</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Some distant noise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Make believe. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Make amends.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Shadowless movements,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Or false pretense?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The dead gravedigger</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Still singing his song,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Morning seldom comes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And doesn’t stay for long.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Endless wait</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Foreboding disquietude</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Rambunctious burning</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Dizziness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Dizziness…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Creepy poem</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Vengeful ghosts</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Midnight dinner</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Spirits raising toast.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sharpened teeth</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Crystal voice </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Nightcrawler moon</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Some distant noise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Make believe. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Make amends.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Shadowless movements,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Or false pretense?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The dead gravedigger</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Still singing his song,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Morning seldom comes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And doesn’t stay for long.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Endless wait</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Foreboding disquietude</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Rambunctious burning</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Dizziness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Dizziness…</span></div>
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Sayantan Sunny Ghoshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00152573393713620442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8097779596865000640.post-4288128242436052012015-05-03T01:12:00.001-07:002015-05-03T01:12:26.379-07:00Études for Nepal.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Billions of blue blistering barnacles!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">said Captain Haddock from the rubbles of a house </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">in Kathmandu, where lived a family of four.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">All faithful readers of the adventures of Tintin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Their neighbors had a grandfather clock,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">made of pure walnut, a John Ellicott knock-off;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">its hourly chimes lulled children to sleep at night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now it sleeps with the remains of the children in the dust.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The airport was a happy place last week,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">today, it’s filled with doctors and people wearing masks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The baggage claim line seems never-ending.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Addresses, one meshed with another, lay outside.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Like a pyramid lacking geometry.</span></div>
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Sayantan Sunny Ghoshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00152573393713620442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8097779596865000640.post-91276427952369873262015-03-29T10:12:00.000-07:002015-03-29T10:12:39.832-07:00How To.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Vinay made lying look easy. He was a compulsive cheater, a
drifter who craved the company of different women. He lied through his pants
and stormed into their skirts. Vinay wrote a <i>How to</i> column for a Sunday weekly.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">How to win the girl of
your dreams?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">How to talk to
strangers on a train?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">How to manage your
jeans when the zipper breaks?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But the day he went to meet his grandmother whose illness
didn’t let her remember things, she informed him about a ‘latest’ invention
called the Condom. He listened. And even asked her, <i>How to</i> use it.</span><b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Sayantan Sunny Ghoshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00152573393713620442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8097779596865000640.post-71222250812935357282015-02-13T02:26:00.000-08:002015-02-13T02:38:37.546-08:00Artful 2 or Ignis Fatuus<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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</xml><![endif]--><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I need a volunteer.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Many hands.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Why don’t you come up?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Heads turn.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yes you, skinny girl there.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Why?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Why? So I can cut you in half. Or vanish you into thin air.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">You call that magic?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Dissecting you is not magic. Bringing you back is.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Quietness.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">That’s not magic.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Bringing the dead back to life isn’t magic?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Girl smiles.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">No. But making the dead walk, is.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Audience laughs.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The dead walk too?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Audience laughs.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Girl smiles.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">And sometimes walk into magic shows too!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Prove it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">When does your show get over?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This was my last act.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Smiles.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">[Curtains]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Magic.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">image: A Girl Who Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i> </i></span></div>
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Sayantan Sunny Ghoshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00152573393713620442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8097779596865000640.post-32758884966683796162015-01-07T08:48:00.000-08:002015-01-07T11:04:32.893-08:00YES! We can<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-zmLQYnD1eS0dpDqZnKBkGit6rFwAMmhKpoo_mVVQF7BsDu2Su58cHbvT3gPzlMycgGenezTwHMkOkBic0U5f9lSuVqTYcifMSA3QrWXUJyseSsUZ0pDaJU3axw_LfEfLVsjMGwSgyLqF/s1600/BN-CC336_captio_G_20140326143340.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-zmLQYnD1eS0dpDqZnKBkGit6rFwAMmhKpoo_mVVQF7BsDu2Su58cHbvT3gPzlMycgGenezTwHMkOkBic0U5f9lSuVqTYcifMSA3QrWXUJyseSsUZ0pDaJU3axw_LfEfLVsjMGwSgyLqF/s1600/BN-CC336_captio_G_20140326143340.jpg" height="266" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Source: Bob Mankoff for <i>The Wall Street Journal</i> (http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2014/03/26/new-yorker-cartoon-editor-makes-picks-for-caption-contest/)</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">[An entry to the The Great Indian Blogging Contest, as a part of the Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival 2015]</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yes! Yes! Yes!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Aye!! Aye!! Aye!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Chamcha</i> calling
Kaptaan—<i>Chamcha</i> calling
Kaptaan—Affirmative. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">No dog wagging its own tail here. But it’s a Dog-eats-Dog
world sire, have to follow or get left behind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">No, I don’t tolerate Yes men. If I ask the milkman whether
the milk is without water and he says “Yes</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">,</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">” I fire him! But then I reach
office and boss asks me to get his groceries. I want to say no, but dare how I
do it? He even pays cab fare. Which middle-class </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">c</span><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">hhaposha</i></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Bengali man goes to do groceries with a <i>bajarer thole</i> in hand in a bloody taxi? It’s about the respect and not about saying a Yes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> But before that I
have to go collect buyer’s agreement from the builder who sold me that </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">“</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">sprawling</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">”</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> 2bhk in Rajarhat; mostly where I’m found crawling instead. “Blame
it on the furniture!” he said. I murmured, “But I only have a bed and a
cupboard.” But he was already busy changing his cover photo by then.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Hello Mr. Bhandari,
can I have my document?”</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Arey, hello Ghosh
babu. Sit and have chai-coke-masala thums up with me.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Thank you, but I’m in a hurry. Can I just have the document?”</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Why do you need
document yaar? Live aramse with bhabi ji. Today or tomorrow you have to sell
only no? Son will become big, daughter will marry. Then I can handle everything
quickly if document is with me. You don’t need to worry only!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">At this point.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Such a nice shirt Mr. Bhandari, is the make Italian?”</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Very close guess, this
one is </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Ekdalia-n</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Such smooth texture.” </span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Doesn’t even rupture.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Still no document?”</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">No, just stick to your
compliments!!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Are those your children in the photo?” </span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Family first, my only
motto.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Your son looks like your carbon copy.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">[pleased] <i>More like my
brother, he is a disco-jockey!!<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Give me the paper, sir. So I can take your leave.”</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mondays are
inauspicious no? Day of Prabhu Shiv.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Can’t fight the gods now, can I? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Don’t say YES. A nod will suffice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then 16/9 Monohorpukur Lane is headquarters, where awaits <i>swayam</i> Devi herself. And unlike Shiva she
doesn’t miss a day, every day is </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">missus day</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">. Usual tropes are there alright;
pick her favorite flowers, praise her new haircut, tell her she’s looking
thinner and definitely don’t make her cook dinner. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But what about the paperless flat that was her birthday
gift? One without a lift. What if she is waiting at home wearing her Denzel
Washington face today? Of course, of course! Have no fear, just put your Maruti
on back-gear. Stop for <i>daabher jol</i>,
stop for <i>jhaal muri</i>, then go park the
car in front of shoshur bari. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Start by touching father-in-law’s feet. Then whisper in his
ears he’s looking like Jeet!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">No licking butt this, after all flattery is a man’s best
friend.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Or was it a dog wagging its tail?<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a></span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Glossary<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">c<i>hhaposha</i>:<i> </i>Middle-class</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>bajarer thole</i>: Grocery bag</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>daabher jol</i>:
Coconut water</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Jeet: Bengali superstar</span></div>
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Sayantan Sunny Ghoshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00152573393713620442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8097779596865000640.post-80797161002029132312014-12-10T06:26:00.000-08:002014-12-10T06:26:00.682-08:00Upstairs 7 or ‘You…Boy'<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Donny never carried change when he went shopping. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He took out a note of five-hundred and gave it to the overworked
old man at the counter. He frowned and returned it, ‘Buy more’ he uttered.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now it’s rarely that writers get paid, and even when they do
it’s so little that they don’t fancy overspending on cream-rolls and burgers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Donny hesitated for a moment, then decided to turn around
and leave without the bread.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mr Paul from the neighborhood wished him ‘happy birthday!’
from his table.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Donny nodded; then heard someone cry out, </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">‘You…Boy</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">...You’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">And that’s how they first met.</span></div>
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Sayantan Sunny Ghoshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00152573393713620442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8097779596865000640.post-68753058244690395132014-11-08T06:17:00.000-08:002014-11-08T06:17:08.865-08:00Eternal madness of the bespectacled mind<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Imagine yourself on an empty pathway.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You are walking straight. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">At the end of the pathway stands an ancient manor; made of
black stones and garlanded by dirt and moss amassed from the air and earth.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The door is already open.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Two sets of stairways forming a giant arch. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You walk past the parallel walls, which soon begin to
converge. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Are you going mad? </span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You’re expecting a phantom, or a ghost to live within those
walls. But what if ghosts are a giant set-up? </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The meeting point of parallel
walls at <i>infinity</i> where a man has nowhere left to go.</span></div>
</div>
Sayantan Sunny Ghoshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00152573393713620442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8097779596865000640.post-80297838328842310902014-10-06T21:53:00.002-07:002014-10-06T21:53:40.146-07:00True Story<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">They met a little more than a year ago.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">She went back home and wrote in her diary she met someone who
may change her life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">His, had already changed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A year later they decided to be together. They weren’t
prepared, not by any means.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Wild kids. Scared, scattered, yet hopeful.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What Ifs were many, but they were ready to make them fly out
of the window of their two-room apartment. Yes, two days into it and they were
already planning a home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">They even talked about who’d do the grocery.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">No, they weren’t prepared. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">So extempore was their love.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><o:p></o:p></div>
</div>
Sayantan Sunny Ghoshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00152573393713620442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8097779596865000640.post-36623058555515140542014-10-05T04:23:00.000-07:002014-10-05T04:23:18.136-07:00mothers and sons.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="MsoNormal">
Ma: You’ve been home for a week.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
(click-clack-click)</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Ma: Did you sit and talk to me even once?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
(click-clack-spacebar-enter) Working, maa.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
You know the 20 sarees I designed for Pujo, my clients have
loved them.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
(windows8-homepage) Didn’t you keep one for yourself?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Ma: I felt guilty.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Show me your favorite 5.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i>3 minutes later</i>. Here!</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Now choose 3.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Ma: It’s difficult.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Try.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i>37 minutes later</i>. Umm…Here.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
(type-type-spacebar) Now choose 1.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Ma: IMPOSSIBLE!!!</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Try, try.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><br /></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i>About-one-power-nap-and-63-minutes-later</i>.
Yes-this-No-that-Yes-No-Phew!-Herethisone-Nowait-Okaythisone-FINAL! But why all
this?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
(Windows-shutting-down) Because you’re just as materialistic
as I am, and I couldn’t risk saying sorry empty-handed. Shubho bijoya, maa!</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
(blank-screen)</div>
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<br /></div>
</div>
Sayantan Sunny Ghoshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00152573393713620442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8097779596865000640.post-46296647530840600362014-09-03T08:21:00.000-07:002014-09-03T08:22:35.646-07:00Upstairs 6 or Gladly made a jelly-roll once<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now <i>Gladly</i> used to
work at a local pâtisserie.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Her father drank too much and she needed money to buy books.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">She wished to start a bakery of her own someday.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">She baked birthday cakes for her friends every year.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">She made a jelly-roll once for their landlord and he let go
of that month’s rent which they couldn’t pay, which was often the case.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Donny never celebrated his birthday.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Nobody made him a cake and he never complained.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Two months after Gladly wrote on Donny’s door, September had
arrived.</span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It was Donny’s birthday, and he was out of bread.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
</div>
Sayantan Sunny Ghoshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00152573393713620442noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8097779596865000640.post-53409903214046429762014-08-26T09:22:00.000-07:002014-08-26T09:23:43.316-07:00favorite fix<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The new book by your favorite writer arrives in the mail.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You try and reach home early from work.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Take a quick bath, drop your guards and start reading.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The first three lines break your heart, they are breathtakingly
beautiful.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And then you are in a fix.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What if the rest of the book isn’t as good? </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Will it be easy to carry on living with the disappointment
then?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But what if it is even better than those lines?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What if it becomes your favorite book?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">One, that just like true love, will have to get over.</span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sooner or later.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
</div>
Sayantan Sunny Ghoshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00152573393713620442noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8097779596865000640.post-44250624820461242692014-08-19T10:09:00.002-07:002014-08-19T10:09:57.082-07:00Getting even.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“<span style="color: #37404e;">Extra cheese makes
everything better. Except love..”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: #37404e;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The delivery boy said,
“Nice to know ma’am, but you still owe me eight bucks.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.0pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: #37404e;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“You know good food is
the closest we come to feeling true love, forgetting real pain? Food is the
best anesthetic.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: #37404e;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> He said, “I am glad I could be of help! Eight bucks
still.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.0pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: #37404e;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Stop measuring
happiness with money.” She said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: #37404e;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“But it’s my money,
and your happiness. Unmatched equation.” He said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.0pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: #37404e;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Get going boy, I don’t
have another penny.” She said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.0pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: #37404e;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He picked up a piece
and took a sumptuous bite. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: #37404e;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Now we are even.” He
said.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: #37404e;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
</div>
Sayantan Sunny Ghoshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00152573393713620442noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8097779596865000640.post-59390049068828269652014-08-14T09:00:00.000-07:002014-08-14T09:05:50.085-07:00Upstairs 5 or Hello Stranger!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Gladly</i> had a strange
mind.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You give her a chocolate and she’ll doubt you. You ask her
to climb up the traffic post at night and break the lights so they don’t
disturb the homeless, and she’ll be your friend.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">She picked up the note, and thought for a second.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then took out her nib pen, wrote something on it, and slipped
it back. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Weak in math?” it said.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The note didn’t come back for a while.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When Donny finally opened the door, Gladly was already gone.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Seeing no one, Donny turned. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Something was scribbled on his door.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hello, stranger!</span><o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></div>
</div>
Sayantan Sunny Ghoshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00152573393713620442noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8097779596865000640.post-29549252542855739402014-08-11T11:54:00.000-07:002014-08-11T11:56:17.584-07:00Upstairs 4 or Donny should have bought that hammer<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now Donny never admitted this in front of his friends, but
he was not scared of thieves or murderers. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The only thing he was ever scared of
was ghosts.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">That’s the first thing he thought when he heard a strange
noise in the other room.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And this was no ordinary ghost.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This one was breaking his bloody door down.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He looked around. There was hardly anything to fight it
with.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He should have bought that hammer when mother asked him to.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">All he had was pen and paper. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">So he drew a biggish </span><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">+</span> </span></b><span style="font-size: large;">and slipped it under the
door.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
</div>
Sayantan Sunny Ghoshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00152573393713620442noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8097779596865000640.post-16796167408304955902014-07-31T08:06:00.000-07:002014-08-11T11:04:24.175-07:00Upstairs 3 or the Thundering Thump!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Any other girl in her place would have let common sense get
the better of her, and left. Or looked elsewhere. But in <i>Gladly</i>’s overactive mind, a faceless figure was already up high on
a stool and hanging himself from a rusty ceiling fan. Gladly loved studying handwritings,
she could tell it was not a woman.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">She looked around and found a chunk of concrete that must
have come off one of the walls. Then picked it up without any hesitance and brought
it down on Donny’s main door with a thundering thump.</span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Donny heard and fell from the commode.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
</div>
Sayantan Sunny Ghoshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00152573393713620442noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8097779596865000640.post-12464237950525003462014-07-28T12:00:00.000-07:002014-07-28T15:51:35.971-07:00Upstairs 2 or Donny was in the Bathroom<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Gladly</i> walked up
the stairs of an old building whose tenants had </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">either</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">left the place or were
all dead. There were mollusk –like growths on the sides of the steps and spider
webs adorned the corners of the walls.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">She somehow managed her way up and made a calculated
assumption that the paper ball must have come from the 2<sup>nd</sup> floor
window. She knocked.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Donny was in the bathroom, wasting time; just staring into
space and lazing on the toilet seat whenever he was out of depth.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He didn’t hear her knock.</span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But she wasn’t one to give up.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
</div>
Sayantan Sunny Ghoshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00152573393713620442noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8097779596865000640.post-91514408229357323702014-07-24T11:30:00.000-07:002014-07-24T11:30:22.036-07:00kaleidoscope kaleidoscope<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The neon-lit kaleidoscope showing pictures of yesteryear
stars and playing an old Raj Kapoor song took him back several years, to a past
where he was an itinerant manic force storming his way through the streets of
Hazaribag.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The boy who left his open skies for the multistoried condominium
he owns now. He has a M.F. Hussain in his drawing room, luxury cars in his
garage, vintage alcohol in his cellar. But during purposeless lunchtime
conversations, his heart still races through the emerald fields chasing frogs. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Was
he humming something?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Dil dhoondta hai phir
wohi fursat ke raat din.</span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Gulzar.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
</div>
Sayantan Sunny Ghoshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00152573393713620442noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8097779596865000640.post-16557107116621557282014-07-23T09:45:00.000-07:002014-07-23T09:45:15.381-07:00Do you remember?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Some say reading is a dying art. But in a dying race struggling
to remember simple ideas of humanity, it’s still more alive than the rest. Most
of us remember important things through associations; heartbreaks become a
song, first job becomes a wristwatch, someone’s death becomes the reminiscence
of a conversation.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I always remembered things with books. The face of the
writer became the face of the feeling then.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Stephen King became Nightmare.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Franz Kafka became Delusion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">García Márquez became Magic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Woody Allen became Confusion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ruskin Bond became Leisure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Haruki Murakami became Loneliness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And Memory always remained a bittersweet getaway.</span></div>
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Sayantan Sunny Ghoshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00152573393713620442noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8097779596865000640.post-17807710944052133882014-07-22T11:49:00.000-07:002014-07-22T11:49:27.033-07:00Showdown!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sundays were when Dad walked in from the <i>bazaar</i> with the entire fish market in
his hands. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">TEESRI MANZIL, TUMSA NAHI DEKHA, GUIDE, TRISHUL, AMAR AKBAR
ANTHONY. Forget the blockbusters, we had CHHOTI SI BAAT, CHASHME BUDDOOR,
KATHA, SHAUKEEN, MOHAN JOSHI HAZIR HO!, SALIM LANGDE PE MAT RO.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Show me another Sai Paranjpye, Saeed Akhtar Mirza, Gulzar or
Muzaffar Ali. Or a Khayyam, Naushad, Vanraj Bhatia, or S.D. Burman. <i>Barkhoordar </i>(he smirked), <i>humare paas</i> Shashi Kapoor, Smita Patil, Farooq
Shaikh <i>the</i>. </span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Tumhare 90s ke paas kya hain?</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The answer was Ma.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">MA…DHURI DIXIT.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Bollywood was all about Sunday morning showdowns.</span></div>
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Sayantan Sunny Ghoshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00152573393713620442noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8097779596865000640.post-70116795451524744312014-07-21T11:43:00.000-07:002014-07-21T13:52:15.227-07:00Artful<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Girl: What do you do?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Boy: I am an artist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Girl: Don’t you work?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Boy: I am an artist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Girl: What do you want?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Boy: Is that jazz playing?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Girl: Why?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Boy: Because I want to make love to you with jazz playing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Girl: (laughs)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Boy: ?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Girl: You are sick.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Boy: I will buy you coffee.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Girl: And I’ll say yes for a Latte?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Boy: Artistes make terrific love.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Girl: But terrible lovers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Boy: You don’t know me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Girl: Why don’t you try that with someone who is not on a
wheelchair?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Boy: Oh, there’s no art in that.</span></div>
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Sayantan Sunny Ghoshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00152573393713620442noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8097779596865000640.post-49039362516458645332014-07-20T08:12:00.000-07:002014-07-20T08:16:46.381-07:00Right Person<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">How often do we find the right person?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">She could be in another country, which will never give me a
Visa. Or worse, born in another time. She could be Janis Joplin. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">She could be Dominique Francon. For love I can cross
borders, but how do I enter Ayn Rand’s imagination?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What if I see her and words fail me?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What if she is sitting across from me in the bus, reading <i>The Fountainhead</i>?<i> </i>Do I just say excuse me and tell her that she is the one? She may have
already found him. And I am no Ethan Hawke.</span></div>
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Sayantan Sunny Ghoshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00152573393713620442noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8097779596865000640.post-49897074215483079782014-07-19T08:52:00.000-07:002014-07-19T15:42:02.871-07:00Upstairs<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Her parents named her </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Gladly</i></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">His named him something but he preferred Donny. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Every Sunday morning, Gladly headed out to read poems to a
blind man.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Every morning Donny tried finishing his novel. Every morning
he failed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">She missed having a friend. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">His deadline was near.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Donny wrote on paper, and filled his room with crumpled
pages.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Gladly always carried her green umbrella with her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">That morning when Donny felt useless, he wrote “HELP” on a
piece of paper and threw it outside his window.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When it fell on Gladly’s umbrella, she opened it and read.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then she went upstairs.</span><br />
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