Tag: Short Story
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So, Breathe…
Sonya’s Three Line Tales #253 The Future lies beyond those snow capped peaks – whispered the mind, thoughtless. The spirited wanderer knew no boundaries and punctuations, and so it wandered. But heart decided to be life- not tomorrow, but today and now- reminding the wanderer that today we stand on a peak, which was beyond…
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The Chosen One
Sonya’s Three Line Tales # 252 Rumors have their own way of gripping and holding the minds of people – like that of the ancient cave that was a doorway to another world that would open to the chosen ones- but they are values only by the ones aware of them. Unaware of all the…
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Artificial Sleep
Sonya’s Three Line Tales #245 Night has embraced my soul and I am about to drift away into the wild and screaming world of my imagination. The place where I am surrounded by darkness, but my mind cannot make up that the very state of lack of light is caused by a very disturbed mind,…
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The Arch Garden
Three Line Tales #244 Jen did not expect anything out of the ordinary, when her friends planned a trip to the garden nearby, casually known as the arch garden. Walking towards it, a sense of familiarity embraced her- the place, the soil, the smell and even the plants seemed to be a long-forgotten dream. An…
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Laundry Day
Sonya’s Three Line Tale #237 Sam thought he found a perfect hiding place- in the laundry room, inside the washing machine- away from his wife Joe’s constant reminder of importance of work out and burning the calories. He made himself comfortable by choosing a comfy posture, swinging his legs in merry, thinking his wife will…
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The Asylum
For Mindlovemisery’s Photo Challenge #326 An old house with worn off paints and an eerie look stood on the left side of the road towards the end. They said mad men lived there- men with loose emotions and cursed tongues. They said they could always hear the cacophony of swears and cries from inside the…
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A dog Kelpie!
For Sonya’s Three Line Tales “What…!!! I have been living with you since my birth and you ask me if I am a Kelpie? ” , asked a shocked Tobby who was starting to get vexed with this “almost everyday question” of Sarah, his human best friend. Sarah with her usual playful self loved to…
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Lavender Feels
Sonya’s Three Line Tale #235 “Lavender” has always been an emotion for her ever since she heard the color, she has felt the beauty of them flowers with her hand and in the evenings, its scent filled her room taking her to the dreamy world of lavender fields spread beyond sight, easing her pain of…
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Old Fashioned Love
Sonya’s Three Line Tales #234 He did not mind to be out of fashion for the day, nor did he mind himself being stamped odd for the old fashioned coat and the cap he was wearing ;they were gifted to him by her and he never forgot to wear the violin and her perfume as…
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Down the Drain
For Sonya’s Three Line Tales #232 The yellow rubber duckies and the colored tortoises were his favorite, when he used to be mamma’s little boy. Now he is no more little,he has grown into a big man, and her lap that could contain the whole of him once longed for his head resting on it,…
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Grey and Orange
Sonya’s Three Line Tales, Week #231 The bridge stood as the silent spectator, pulled together with ropes of hope and planks of memories; connecting two worlds with two giant gateways and two colors – orange and grey. While one world fanned the flames of bright orange, the other extinguished all embers of anguishes painting it…
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Dwarf and Basketball
For Sonya’s Three Line Tale , Week #230 Emma, with great curiosity to get a reaction,showed this old photograph of her, taken during her last visit to the land of giants and asked her 5 year old son “Jamie, what do you think of this picture?” Reluctant at first to take his eyes from his…
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Jamie and the Statue
MLMM – Saturday Mix – Double Take, 20 June 2020Our homophone sets this week are:wait – remain in readinessweight – an amount of heavinessandwarn – to advise of a hazardworn – displaying evidence of use MLMM – Wordle #194Wet, Downfall, Beautiful, Smell, Girl, Wash, Resilient, Stridulate( – to produce a shrill, grating sound, as a cricket does, by rubbing together…
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The Wedding
For Sonya’s Three Line Tales Alex and Eden felt a tingling vacuum in their stomach as they neared the fort, which they thought was the perfect venue for the Holy Matrimony. They wanted it to be special, “right out of the fairy tale” kind of a place for the unison of two like minds, who…
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Hell of a hell !!
Was that a knock? Pausing for some time, and listening for any potential danger of being caught, Sam resumed his doing. His back in an arc, and straining his body, he gawked into the computer without the blink of an eye. He strained hard with his bloody eyes-the sleep deprived and nearly dead ones- with…
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