If possible,
we would emerge out of this pandemic by switching it off,
If possible,
we would fume less and smile more as the pandemic taught us that life is short,
Maybe this is just an aberration
for learning to cope with a crisis.
Linking to Ragtag Daily Prompt: Emerge, Fandango One Word Challenge: Aberration, Your Daily Word Prompt: Switch, Sunday Writing Prompt: Coping, Fiction Monday 20: Fume, dVerse Challenge Quadrille #116: Poem Those Possibles
Staying happy is a choice to keep
the mind lucid and fresh.
Happiness is that feeling which one gets
seeing loved ones virtually as a rule during the pandemic.
One feels the happiest when its possible
to hug loved ones after months of lockdown.
Linking to Ragtag Daily Prompt: Lucid, Your Daily Word Prompt: Choice, Fiction Monday: Rule, dVerse Quadrille Challenge: In need of a happiness project?
There’s a planet at the edge of the universe not unlike the earth in landscape and atmosphere. But its inhabitants are not.
They are robots who have been programmed to act and respond as per certain scenarios. While they are also programmed to emote like humans, their emotions seem anything but natural. Over the years, the amount of goods consumed on this planet has increased ten times.
There is speculation that the merchandise there is carried across the vast swath of their planet by planes just like on Earth. People remember to label it correctly so that its not lost.
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A team of two dancers, a team of two friends,
they always hung out together
But punishment was an echo of her feelings,
when her friend’s actions were too much to not bother
Forgiveness meant being cordial and working in tandem
in the interim both of which weren’t acceptable to her,
And so with time, the wedge between them got wider
and wider and finally their relationship was wiped clean
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Linking to Ragtag Daily Prompt: Interim, Fandango One Word Challenge: Cordial, Your Daily Word Prompt: Tandem, Photo Challenge #336, dVerse Challenge – Three little words: Clean.wider.both, What do you see #51 , Fiction Monday
Having the penchant to excel despite rivalries all around
got rewarded with a trip of a lifetime,
Unable to handle the winter, he sensed that
this was the change he had dreamt about,
Drowning himself amidst a blanket of sunshine
he felt pure bliss.
Linking to Ragtag Daily Prompt: Handle, Your Daily Word Prompt: Excel, Fiction Monday 14, dVerse Challenge: Quadrille #113, What do you see #50
Time was nigh as far
as her plan of starting a
garden was concerned
She didn’t deviate from
her plan one bit despite the
proffer of a team
She made sure to clam
up the others saying that
it was in her mind
Once the idea
germinated in her brain,
they met as agreed
Linking to dVerse Challenge: Let Your Words Be Your Paintbrush!, Ragtag Daily Prompt: Time, Fandango One Word Challenge: Deviate, Your Daily Word Prompt: Proffer, Photo Challenge #333, Fiction Monday: Time
These are desperate times for economies around the world. Hikes of all kinds whether its in utility rates, ticket rates, hotel rates, prices in retail and more maybe required to prevent a number of organizations and countries going bust. But on the other hand, hikes will discourage people even further as there are millions who have lost jobs.
The most important thing for almost anyone is to ensure that they are able to put food on the table. All the other luxuries may have taken a backseat for the foreseeable future. Life has become all the more intense and it is a far cry from the fantabulous days before the pandemic when money hunters didn’t need to do much at all as everything seemed hunky dory. The struggle for survival is on as the pandemic has given people a mirror on their actions from the past.
From spring to summer,
the pandemic left millions
struggling for it all
Linking to dVerse Challenge: Haibun Monday, Ragtag Daily Prompt: Fantabulous, Fandango One Word Challenge: Hunter, Your Daily Word Prompt: Intense and Fiction Monday: Mirror
The strangest thing happened as I went into the supermarket. I saw a customer who was very curt with the staff about not wearing a mask despite the strict rules. While he did nod indicating that he understood what the staff was telling him, he still went on in and began to carve his way through the store one step at a time. He also made a faint attempt at a laugh apparently mocking the staff.
Meanwhile, what started out as thunder had given way to a downpour so much so that the city seemed underwater and whirlpools were forming up as well. Almost on cue, things started getting heated up inside as well. Despite the fact that the customer was well built with a broad chest to boot, the staff didn’t waste any time in telling him to leave the store until he followed the health guidelines.
The customer protested saying it was his sovereign right to do what he felt. But the supermarket wasn’t about to sway from the defined rules which would affect their credibility. The staff didn’t have any inanition in following the defined rules. They had kept cherry blossoms around their store as a symbol of hope and they weren’t about to let a random customer spoil it all.
Linking to Ragtag Daily Prompt: Sway, Fandango One Word Challenge: Credibility, Your Daily Word Prompt: Sovereign, Sunday Writing Prompt: Choosing your context, Wordle #203 and Fiction Monday
Long after the coronavirus had been vanquished and the triumphant cries died down, people were still recovering. It would take many years to ameliorate everything.
After the lockdown, everything seemed elysian. As people saw the vast expanse of the calm ocean and fishes swimming without a care, they felt a ray of hope of normalcy. While many did a lot during the lockdown, it was time to start afresh by breaking a coconut. As someone put it – “When it is over said and done, it was a time and there was never enough of it.”
He was driven by wanderlust but he now knew that he had to shed such thoughts and beware dangers which lay ahead lest he ruffle feathers. Lying in bed with toes up, he remembered when he was his concupiscent self and tried to paw her. He missed her touch.
Linking to Ragtag Daily Prompt: Vanquish, Fandango One Word Challenge: Wanderlust, Your Daily Word Prompt: Ameliorate, Wordle #202, Prosery Monday: A Time and Fiction Monday: Beware
His unique skills had made him a very critical player for many years. But in the last year or so, he had hit a rough patch. After his injury, he didn’t seem the same player he once was. Though he had always been a bright prospect, the selectors were now losing patience. His technique was found wanting and he looked completely out of touch. Even in the field, he wasn’t able to catch the ball as it regularly bobbled out of his hands.
While the think tank wanted to give him two more chances, it seemed that his career had hit a wall and it was axiomatic that he needed to get his mind in a good space. Even he had started to feel that something in his mind was getting him pinioned so that he wouldn’t succeed.
His free-spirited personality which was the characteristic of Aquarius brought about his downfall and he just ended up hanging on to breadcrumbs of his past fame for comfort. The form was lost but it was upto him to ensure that it could be found again.
Linking to Ragtag Daily Prompt: Bobble, Fandango One Word Challenge: Catch, Your Daily Word Prompt: Pinion, Fiction Monday: Bright, Wordle #201
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