The scorching sun..
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“How can they make you work such long hours under the scorching sun? This is totally inhumane.”
Raj had come over to the city with dreams of giving his family a better life in the village considering the salary he was being offered would help him enroll his children in the best of schools. But over the last year or two, the long hours under the extreme heat had taken a huge toll on his body and mind. Had he made the right choice?
Written for Five Sentence Fiction Prompt: Scorching. Read the other entries here.
Linking to NaBloPoMo (National Blog Post Month – July – My post no 18 for this month.
Kalpana solsi
People migrate to the land of opportunities I.e. Cities in search of a better life only to lose whatever they have. It’s sad.
aseemrastogi2
Yeah it’s always a simple fact that the grass is always greener on the other side. But then, when we reach the other side, we realize that it was just an illusion :(.