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[MicroFiction] A Stitch in Time.



OFS 92


For Usha Devi, knitting was more than a recreation. For the past thirty years, each morning, with lips full of prayers, her hands swayed like an artist – that effortless motion guided by her heart's pure intuitions. 
Knitting was perhaps the purpose of her life.

One of these mornings, with a disdainful look, she denied permission to her son to visit the annual Kullu Dusshera Mela.

"Nine killed as a bus to Kullu Mela plunges into a valley." The news reader screamed.

With lips brimming with prayers that curved into a wry smile, her fingers resumed the ritualistic passion.



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The Unfinished Coffee Mug.


OFS 84


Not all people are meant to last forever in our lives. Not all stories are entitled to have an ending.

Our lives are complete in incompleteness.

It was a similar rainy evening when she gifted me the coffee mug – her first attempt at doodling.

All of us live with our past. All of us allow expectations to shape our future.

But, some of us know how to shrug the past. I think that is who I am.
The phone rang. It was her. I turned the screen off and resumed my reading, intermittently sipping from the unfinished coffee mug.



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The Ineffable Cup of Tea.


OFS 78


He tapped it thrice on the tip of his fingernail before lighting it up.

Hiding behind dark shades, he exhaled the smoke profusely, engulfing in a bout of incessant laughter.
"Who is He?" I asked the waiter serving tea.
"Ah! A lunatic who comes here every evening, to smoke reefer." He replied, looking at him in disgust.
“May I sit here?” I cautiously tried to invade his privacy.
“Yes! What do you want man?” He asked irritatedly.
“To help you!” I smiled.

Raising him the sedative-laced tea, I signalled the surrounding men from the rehabilitation centre to take position.


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