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A to Z Challenge Day#20 – Word Theme T for Tormented

by Tina Basu April 23, 2014
written by Tina Basu
Hello there, so Day 20 is here, what a relief. 6 more days and then some rest for me. So what do we have today with T? It’s Tormented.   I am writing this post from my bed room because when I sit in front of the TV or do anything else I can’t think much on the fictions. And I can hear my hubby watching Jamie Oliver! hmm… 


Anyways I am quite late today already and am damn sleepy right now. SO here is the post and no more non sense from me.





The Visions

He woke up suddenly in the middle of the night.

This had now become a regular affair.

Siddharth often had these weird dreams which made him feel very uncomfortable.

When he woke up he was soaked in his own sweat.

He went up to his study table by the bed and rummaged through the pull out drawer.

He grabbed the card and sat on his bed.

He thought whether he should call him now or not.

But one look at the clock held him back.

He looked at the card closely in the dim night light.

The letters were big enough… Nawaz Khan… Siddharth had got his card through one of his colleagues but never thought he will actually use it, any day.

But these dreams were getting worse by the day.

He always had these visions of gory murder scene and blood in his shirt… as if someone stabbed him from behind.

But today he saw a little more when he turns around. But the face of the attacker was not clear.

He was tormentedby this attacker and these wild nightmares where somebody attacks him from the back and he falls down with many other dead bodies strewn across the place.

When he had mentioned about these visions, over lunch at work once, only 
Murthy was sympathetic and others laughed it off. Murthy sourced this card from somewhere and gave it to Sid one day.

He re-read the card… Nawaz Khan – Past Life Regression Therapist.


He made a mental note that he will call up Khan the next morning. Now even 

Sid had enough of these visions and wanted to ascertain if it had any link with his past life. 

www.soulmoksha.com 
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    A to Z Challenge Day#19 – Word Theme S for Sheepish

    by Tina Basu April 22, 2014
    written by Tina Basu
    Day 19 and I am here with the word Sheepish. Isn’t quite an emotion but still is good enough for being in my list!

    There you go with this one. And for the earlier ones click here.


    The Look

    Rohan was glued to his phone most of the time. Sometimes his mum cursed the decision of buying him the new smart phone for his birthday. She never understood what was there to do in the phone entire day.

    Earlier she was getting irritated with the constant ping sounds, but thank god it doesn’t ring so many times these days.

    Today Rohan, like all other days, was busy what’s apping while slouching in the couch. It was like his daily routine after coming back from college when mum sat down with her evening cup of tea in front of the TV.

    “Rohan, how was college today?”

    “Good…”

    “How was the physics class?”

    “Okay…”

    “What okay?”

    “It was fine Ma…”

    “This weekend we have to visit the Mehra’s, they have a puja at home”

    “hmm…”

    “Will you wear a kurta?”

    “aaa…hmm.”

    “You look handsome in Kurta Pajama”

    “hmm…”

    “Who’s this girlfriend?”

    “Preeti …”

    “Ohhh”, said mom with a chuckle

    Rohan looked up from his phone when he realized he had just given out the name to mom! He gave a sheepish smile to mom and clarified “Nothing like that… we are just friends”

    “Ohh.. I never asked anything…”, mom had a hidden smile in her voice

    “Mom… there’s nothing…”

    As Rohan got up from the couch and rushed towards his room, mom caught that sheepish look on his face. She knew her baby is in his teens now and this was nothing unusual… but she still enjoyed that look on his face!

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      A to Z Challenge Day#18 – Word Theme R for Regret

      by Tina Basu April 21, 2014
      written by Tina Basu
      Its day 18 and only 8 more days left!!! So soon??? Really I still remember the day when I was sitting down to decide my theme and then contemplating if I’ll be able to keep up with the challenge with both the blogs. And I think I am doing quite good specially from the cook blog. Some days when I am tired and sleepy after work I really don’t feel like writing a fiction… I mean how do you think of something when you are half sleepy? Those are the days when I tried to finish of in like 7-8 sentences!! But I am quite happy with some of the works that I wrote in the last 18 days.

      Okay I am going to go ahead with my R post. Its Regret for R today.


      Only if she had Listened

      She worked really hard… she had no other options, she had to provide for herself and secure her future.

      She also had to save up for the little one on its way.

      The hectic schedule on her job and the night school was taking a toll on her health, but she had to be on foot everyday without a miss.

      She sometimes looked at couples at the café, where he worked, and thought about her times with Nathan. They were in high school together and were into each other like mad.

      She was head over heels in love with him and ignored all the advice that dad had for her. She dropped out from school following him and took the garage job with him to be with him.

      She was happy in her life and didn’t realize what she was losing away, she didn’t realize till the day she got to know he just left her and went away… and a month later she found herself expecting their baby.

      She still regrets that she ignored all that her dad had warned about but mostly she regrets not completing her education. Thus attending the night school was very important…. Very important her her and her little champ. 

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        A to Z Challenge Day#17 – Word Theme Q for Quiet

        by Tina Basu April 19, 2014
        written by Tina Basu
        My Q post is here and the word theme is Quiet. So i’ll quietly put up a small post. But the post is not quiet. 

        It’s something that keeps happening and we read about them and stay quiet. But one needs to break silence… but I don’t know when the government will wake up against this and make some really stringent laws which no one can flout. No one means no one – be it a politician himself or the ones with the moolah! is the safety for women a big ask? Don’t think so.


        Here’s my post.

        Sometimes it’s too late

        They were intoxicated… intoxicated with the spirits and intoxicated with the power.

        The power that they had over her at this time.

        They didn’t listen to her pleas, they didn’t bother about her pain.

        The alcohol and drugs had brought out the animals within them. They were no more humans, they didn’t have any feelings nor did they bother about anyone else.

        She screamed for help but there was no one in this deserted factory.

        She cried, pleaded them to leave her, and when nothing worked she gather all her courage and all her force to hit back at them.

        Intoxicated with their power they got enraged and became even more brutal.

        One covered her mouth with his palm to curtail her screams.

        She wished she could die before they ripped her apart.

        And within seconds everything became quiet, not a single sound… the squeaks were gone, the tears stopped rolling down… life left her.

        While muffling her screams he had not let her breathe.

        The lifeless body lay in front of them and they didn’t know what to do.


        As they were running away from the site leaving the lifeless body behind… the local cops got hold of them. But they were to late… they couldn’t save her. 

        kashmirobserver.net

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          A to Z Challenge Day#16 – Word Theme P for Pain

          by Tina Basu April 18, 2014
          written by Tina Basu
          Its the P post and today’s emotion is Pain.

          When she’ll be at peace

          It took everything away from her.

          Her beautiful smile, her high spirits, those twinkle in her eyes… It slowly took away all of them.

          The once beautiful bright young Niki today was a lone, her only friend was her mother – the rock solid woman.  


          She knew behind the rock hard face was a heart which had a storm within but she contained that storm.

          Niki forced a smile on face when ever mother was around.

          The pain was unbearable sometimes… still she smiled at mother. Both had no one else in their lives.

          She didn’t know how long mother will have her.


          The chemotherapy sessions were not working much, and one day she knew she will be gone…and with her the pains… may be that day she will be at peace.

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          A to Z Challenge Day #15 – Word Theme Overwhelmed

          by Tina Basu April 17, 2014
          written by Tina Basu

          So we reach our day 15 and on our O post. Today’s emo is Overwhelmed. I am half asleep right now, so keeping it tiny.

          The Bond
          The little boy lost everything in the riots. His parents got separated, his house was vandalized. He didn’t know if anyone in his family were alive.

          The riots didn’t spare anyone – women or children. Those who found themselves alive after two days found themselves in the streets or in the drains among the stench of blood.

          The little boy was hungry, thirsty and tired. He felt deranged, he went to a nearby vandalized place which looked like a shop and got his hands on some biscuit packets strewn across a now broken floor.


          After some quick bites he felt sane and felt the fire in his stomach taming. He gulped down the colas that he found in the shop.

          He heard a faint feeble cry nearby. He listened carefully and felt it was a cry of pain, it was a cry for help. He walked towards the place where the sound emanated from. He found a pool of corpses. He walked amidst the gory site and reached the man who had very little life left within him. The little boy took the man’s head in his hand and offered him the cola. With one sip the man felt he was alive.

          The boy helped the man towards the broken shop and gave him some of the biscuits and cola. The man was overwhelmedwith this gesture of the little boy. Specially because he looked to be from the other religious sect but still he helped him.  He told himself if he could come out of this mess he will help this child.

          The next day they found themselves with the missionaries who came forward to help the riot victims. The man brought the little boy along with him. He adopted Karim as him own son and it didn’t matter they were from different religions. 

          Seven years from that horrific day and they still share a great bond with each other. 

          globalmissionawareness.com
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