Abide, O Dear Redeemer!

Tobacco causes cancer!

“Hey, it is written on the box! His voice was quivering.”

“Fuck man! Who cares?”

“No but... cancer?! I should have seen it before.”

“Coward! You would have stopped smoking for that? Seriously?”

“Goodness!, you won't understand!”

“What? How a picture of infected lungs can scare the hell out of you?”

“Damn! It's the same box... but never noticed it!”
“What would you do? Raise awareness? Stop smoking? Take legal actions against the manufacturers?”

A short pause. The church bell chimed.

He looked at his coffin and smiled.

“Dude, I could have lived a few extra years!”

The Last Few Minutes!

Suddenly she was jerked back to consciousness!

It was a small room, the air was damp! She was suffocating.

“How did I come here? Am I still alive? Did someone kidnap me?”

She couldn't remember anything clearly.

A woman was screaming! Someone was torturing her! She could hear male voices!

There was no light in the room. Terrified, she tried to sit.

No use! She couldn't move an inch.

The screaming became louder and louder. She could hear her heart pounding faster.

Just then she discovered a source of light!

- “Perhaps, that's the only way out.” she thought.

Desperately she started crawling but it was a waste of effort.

She didn't remember anything else.

The next time she woke up, she was in a bigger room and lights were on!

A man was carrying her in his arms.

Then she heard a female voice.

- “Congratulations dear! You have become a father!”

Que Sera, Sera!

She was new in the class.

- “Did you see her? Gorgeous!” One of my friends elbowed me.

I couldn't deny! And, she was staring at me with a smile on her lips.

Her sunglass was reflecting the dim light of the room.

- “Dude, you are in luck!” Someone whispered behind me.

She was still staring at me. Damn! I know these girls.

The bells rang and the professor came in.

- “Class! Today, we have a new student with us. Meet Opal!”

- “Yes... the bitch!” I thought.

- “Unfortunately, she is visually impaired...”

Everyone was paused. A sobering silence.

She was still looking at me.

B(ring) Him Back!

The number you are trying to call is switched off.

This is the fifth time she heard the same thing.

Perhaps he is in a meeting or talking with his boss.

What if he is with another girl?

She couldn’t think anymore!

The number you are trying to call is switched off.

She was getting desperate.

He never did something like this.

He is supposed to drive back home! An accident…?

“Oh God! No! What am I thinking?” She forcefully changed her thoughts!

The number you are trying to call is switched off.

She couldn’t control her tears.

Something must have happened. She didn’t know whom to call.

The number you are trying to call is switched off.

The number you are trying to call is switched off.

The number you are trying to call...

Suddenly her phone rang! It was him! Thank God!

- “Hello?”

“Why are you giving me random miscalls for the last two hours?”

She broke down with tears. Does he even know how tensed she was?

“Your… your ph was switched off!”

A short pause, then he burst into laughter!

“I told you today not to choose that weird caller tune for me!”

Success-fool!

Finally I was at the peak of my career. 


High salary, lavish lifestyle, and a great designation!

People who always criticized me were left behind and I was climbing the stairs of success!

Rather, it was automatically carrying me up where no one would ever be able to touch me.

To the designation I've always dreamt of!


And, I'm slowly but deliberately moving towards it.

I wanted to look at my jealous colleagues who were left behind.

- “Hey! Watch your step mate!”

An old man reminded me I was in a metro station, on an escalator!

Prose-titute!

It was 5:00pm. Her last class for the day.

Suddenly, her cell phone rang when the professor was giving a lecture on molecular biology.

Thank God it was in vibration mode! She instantly picked up the call and whispered - “Hello?”

There was a husky voice on the other side of the phone.

“Rich man! Drunk. Paying in cash! Looking for the best.”

She felt excited. More money! It was the third time in the day.

She needed money desperately!

In a trembling voice she asked - “Where?”

- “Outside your college! White Audi. Make him happy, do whatever he wants.”

- “On my way.”

She had to leave the class in the middle. The professor didn't bother, for this was her usual habit. She rushed to the ladies' washroom, touched up her makeup quickly, applied perfume, and started walking towards the main gate of the college.

Yes, he was right. There was the white car, parked under the banyan tree. But the windows were closed. She went closer to the car and knocked on the black window glass. The window rolled down.

Her father's face made her go weak in the knees.