Flash Fiction - 6
Brand New Day
All of them looked forward to the day. The businessman was in high spirits since he was going to hear about his promotion. The smartly dressed young man was confident about his big job interview. The girl checked her makeup once more as she wondered if her longtime internet chat friend, who she was going to meet for the first time, would be the one. The woman touched her belly with a smile on her lips as she imagined the moment she would see her baby on the ultrasound. Their anticipations and hopes were evident in their nods and smiles at each other whenever their eyes met. They began the day together as they boarded the train. And ended their lives together as the bomb ripped through it.
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thinkers since May 11, 2005
17 Comments:
Very touching!!!
Truth is bitter :-(
Oh God!!! Gory:(
that's a sad twist at the end....
OMG, me dont like sad endings.
Right after karthikutty recovering u shd write some thing less morbid balaji!
:(
sad but i guess life sometimes is.
ask me!!!:(
recently in U.K. my daughter was in bet two blasts and walked 20 mins cos all passengers were asked to get down fm the train since delib elec failure,as a safety measure, and on her way back she walked for two hours to reach home
:(didnt have enuf money and an indian (stranger) lent her money,
thank god she is safe and sound.
I told myself mayb my mom watched over her:)
ferrari, sure is :(
kals, me neither! but this story just refused to go away after i read about those tragic london blasts... will make it up in the next one :)
rekhs, as i said, this one was gnawing at me since i read about the blasts. so i had to get it out of the system! glad your daughter is OK.
good one, sad but tru :(
Very nice and touching
the twist at the end was shocking...very well-written, BB...
short and perfect.well written one.
Nice one.
Value of life is the same everywhere. What has happened in London happens multiple times, every single day in Iraq.
When I went to Cape canaveral (NASA), I saw some clips of the earth from space. It looked so peaceful.
vijayr, thanx!
cipher, thanx!
packer, thanx!
ram, thanx! hope this had more of an impact
senthil, thanx!
ttg, very true and an echo of my sentiments. and thats the reason why though this story had its birth after the London blasts, I didnt mention a specific geographical location in the story.
yep, it did...i am not a big fan of flash fiction coz to me, its a very evanescent reading experience...but this one shook me up a bit...very well-done.
Life is nothing but a Dream..
Am moved !!
You can tell this story is not set in London.. as no one "nods and smiles at each other whenever their eyes met(meet)" on the tube! You'd be lucky if they looked UP from the paper/book/magazine they so intently read in the mornings!
ram, thanx... considering your usual frank opinions, this is high praise :)
adengappa, thanx!
anon, i guess thats why writers do so much research about the place they set their story in! i plead ignorance :)
what can i say :) !
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