I feel happy to announce that flash fiction of mine is published at Gobblers/Masticadores//Editores: Manuela Timofte/J re Crivello.
I feel blessed so thank Mr.J re Crivello, Director and founder of Gobblers/Masticadores and his team.
Here is my first flash fiction.
Paw Prints….#Flash fiction
One morning our school manager Fr. Custodio Almeida came and gave us the shocking news. He showed us some photos. Those photos were of a wild animal’s paw prints.
He said,” people close to him showed a tiger’s paw prints near the parking lot area and so…..
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One day, the house of the owner of Rooster and Kitty(a female cat) smells like mistress is cooking something delicious.
While playing, Rooster asks Kitty to peek through the kitchen window. Kitty climbs on Rooster’s body and peeks into the kitchen, where she sees Rooster’s wife’s wings in the kitchen. After glancing around, when she sees chicken and potatoes being cooked in a pot, Kitty immediately recognizes what the mistress is cooking.
Rooster’s eyes darken because his wife had just laid nine eggs and his plan was to give life to all nine eggs. She was going to sit on eggs, but something different happened here.
Another bad thing happens, the owner thinks of making mixed fried rice as a guest will come to the house.The mistress picks up an egg, and when she touches it, the egg becomes frightened.
The one who is stupid becomes overwhelmed, when he sees others pain.
One goes into depression thinking, “Today is you, tomorrow is me.”
One understands, today is the turn of the other, tomorrow I may also have this turn, so It becomes sad.
One thinks, we get the best life . It is happy thinking that God is making good use of us.
The last one is Joyful, it thinks, whatever happens, happens for the better and God’s plans God knows.
Here, Kitty cleanses the rooster, just as she cleans her limbs by spitting, so she cleans the Rooster by spitting. Rooster comes to consciousness but his condition is not good. His condition is expressed in this tanka.
No expectations Dreams shattered in a minute Human’s tasty buds Not allows us to survive God! What kind of life is this?
The wife of a rich man dies suddenly. Relatives remarry him as he has a young son. His son’s name is Richard.
For a year or two, his second wife takes good care of her husband and her stepson Richard and wins their heart but when her own child Bunty is born, she shows her true colours.
The father dies with this grief.
She is a dirty and filthy woman. She treats Richard like a servant and even stops his schooling. Richard wants to learn and become a big man but she beats him brutally and holds him in her fist. His father tries to save him but can’t help as his wife has taken control of everything.
She controls Richard in everything. He is so influenced by her that he becomes a stoic.
She and her son Bunty sit at the dining table to have food and Richard is asked to sit on the floor and have the leftovers.
Richard works day and night in his own field with his servants as he has a habit of enduring everything with silence.
One day an accident occurred on the highway while he was working in the field, so all the vehicles had to divert from the main road and go over the field embankment.
A rich girl’s car gets stuck in the mud. She screams for help, Richard rushes to her aid and with the help of other servants pulls her car out of the mud. This rich girl begins to see him as a stuntman.
Gradually she develops interest in him and comes to the field to meet him. She learns from other servants that his stepmother is harassing him. She tells Richard that she’s not a rich girl but the daughter of a driver who drives a car of a rich man.
Further she makes a plan by meeting other honest servants who help her in her plan and as per their plan a farmer takes the girl to Richard’s house and tells his stepmother that, if she accepts his daughter as her daughter- in-law then he will give her 1000 square meters of farmland.
This greedy woman with the hope of getting 1000 square meters of land got her married to Richard.
After getting married, Richard goes to the farm as usual. At home Richard’s stepmother tells the housemaid not to come for work as she wants Richard’s wife to do all the house chores.
As Richard’s wife knows everything about her mother-in-law she doesn’t obey her orders instead she beats her with the same belt which she used to beat Richard. Her addicted son , Bunty too gets beaten when he comes to help his mother.
When Richard comes home to have lunch he is surprised to see everything has changed in his house.
The relationship between the stepmother and her son Bunty was split. Seeing this strange change, Richard starts thinking how all things have changed in his house in a day.
The employment letter was being read on television. There was one special news that Jolene jumped up and ran into the kitchen.To tell her mom
“Mom, Mom, I want to work on television,” Jolene said.
“What work?” Mom asked.
“I want to read the news bulletin on television and work as an announcer,” Jolene said
“But before that, you need Dad’s permission to work on television, you know?” Mom replied
“When Dad comes home from work in the evening, tell him about it, and I’ll take care of everything,” Mom said.
Jolene was praying till evening that she should get permission once Dad comes.
Dad came, took a bath and had tea. Jolene started begging her Mom to take out her television topic.
Meanwhile, Jolene’s younger brother, Joylan who had gone to college arrived.
Mom started the topic, “Hey, do you hear what I was saying?
Dad said, “I didn’t hear what you were saying? Tell me clearly and I will understand. Don’t go round and round like Jilebi.
“Since Jolene has completed her graduation. She wants to work,Mom said nervously.
“Okay that’s good. If she wants to stand on her own feet then I have no problem. By the way, what is she thinking to do.” Dad asked
Jolene got up and approached Dad
She said ,”Today, In the letter of employment on television, it contained a television advertisement that there is a walk-in interview on television tomorrow at 3 p.m. They want news bulletin readers and announcers. Tomorrow is the screen test and the sound test.”
“But no one in our family did acting, not even drama. Everyone has chosen a teaching profession, why don’t you continue your studies? Teaching is a respected profession and respect from children is invaluable.”Dad replied.
Now her younger brother, who was only listening till now spoke in the middle.” If she thinks she is beautiful and smart then her selection will definitely happen, otherwise she will return.So, Dad, you don’t oppose, let her go and try her luck.” and Dad gave permission by nodding his head.
She didn’t sleep that night, thoughts were running in her mind, If I’m selected, my name will be everywhere, people will watch me on television and so on.
Next day when she entered the Television Center. All girls were given a paragraph to recite, in front of the camera. Most of the girls participating in the interview were experienced. Jolene gave a screen test and a sound test and returned home.
About two weeks later, the postman came to her house in the afternoon and left with a yellow envelope. It read, “On Government Duty”, She was shockedwhen she opened the envelope and sawthat, It was her joining letter on television.
One summer at midnight, I went to the church compound to steal tender coconuts. I was stealing tender coconuts, filling a jute bag, and taking a sip of beer. Suddenly, I heard someone whispering in the cemetery. With the jute bag, ran towards the cemetery. Someone was whispering, “One for me, one for you. ” I dropped the jute bag right there and drove straight home.
The next day, I informed my friends that there was a ghost in the cemetery and realized that it was not the ghost but they were Louis and Dominic distributing the stolen cashew seeds
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