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Weekly Contest #298
Amery Faux As I sprinted toward the university's notice board, a tumultuous mix of excitement and apprehension stirred within me. The midday sun cast a warm glow on the campus, but my mind was preoccupied with who would be my roommate for the upcoming year. I was fully aware that two girls would share one room, and the mystery of whom I would be living with was consuming me. Who would I share my space with? Would we click, or would our differences create friction? My heart raced as I ran my pointer along the neatly printed list of names and...
Weekly Contest #58
Serendipity The sun had almost accomplished one-fourth of its journey for the day when I got down from the cab. Holding my two-year-old son, Evan, I pulled out the two heavy bags from the cab's dickey and entered the apartment complex that was to be my abode from now. People must have heard of 'Rags to Riches' stories, but mine was ironical, 'Riches to Rags.' A sigh of agony passed my lips as I threw a sullen glance at the eight-storey structure. 'What a shabby contrast to the complex where Allen and I used to live!' A posh three-bedroom fla...
Weekly Contest #48
THE OTHER WOMAN "Three cheers to Danica D'Souza, Hip Hip Hurray. Run girl run; no one can stop you from winning the trophy this year too." The onlookers from the stands cooed, even as I gasped for some breath. These words supposed to be heartening; fell on my ears with a heavy thud as I struggled to keep my endurance healthy. 'Cannot disappoint them,' I thought to myself. My heart pounded heavily against my chest. The university bestowed upon me with the 'athlete queen' status for the past two consecutive years, and this was my opportunity t...
Weekly Contest #47
NOW YOU CAN SING TILL ETERNITY. You stared at the email message on your computer; your mind was racing so fast that the words became obscure and implausible. There were just three lines, but enough to make your life--the life you had worked so hard and sacrificed so much to build--begin to crumble around you. Dear Samina madam, This mail is to inform you that the CD you sent across today has no songs recorded. If you wish to participate in the selection, kindly send another CD with your recorded songs before 7 pm, failing which, you will be ...
Weekly Contest #27
The Train Journey My long cherished dream of visiting India, was to be realized now. My book, ‘The Mental Trauma,’ had been selected as the best among foreign authors of Indian origin. I was to be honored at the beguiling capital city of India, New Delhi. An invitation that I received in my mailbox for a prize distribution ceremony was the most enthralling news of my life. Though I was of Indian origin, I had been born and brought up in the US. I took to writing at a very young age and had soon become a renowned writer of murder mystery. I d...
Weekly Contest #17
A moment to cherish Samina Jones A thirty year old single mother; she was devastated when her husband of three years served her a divorce notice. Sami, as her friends called her, learnt to pick up the broken strings of her life and soon found a job as a sub editor in Philadelphia. Thanks to her half a decade experience in a similar profile; a two year sabbatical subsequent to child birth posed no deterrent in fetching her a new job. Her life was juggling between work and nurturing her little son, Abban. Jack Fernandez A thirty four year old ...
Weekly Contest #13
THE TRUTH Raphael was busy arranging the documents required for the raid that he was to conduct the following day. An undercover agent working with the police department, Raphael had been deputed to carry on this raid on a gang that apparently was selling unauthorized stuff. The leader of the gang however was a very well known figure in the social circuit, making the accomplishment very difficult. It was on a tipoff received through an anonymous call that this raid was arranged in a jiffy. No officer would have had the guts to accept this ch...
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