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A Short Story

Love Happens He was a short man of forty-five. Short because of his high-temper, his hastiness and ofcourse his height. His name was Richard Parker and he was quite good-looking for his age. He had a sort of businesslike aura about him. He had stubby fingers and was kind to people in general. He was fit and had deep blue eyes. He lived at No. 34, High Street and like most of New York City's working professionals he lived alone, occasionally going to the bar for a drink for he needed to relieve himself of all work-related stress, or else try to find himself some company. He worked in a bank as a chartered accountant and he worked so much he hadn't any time for marriage or kids. Therefore, he was unmarried, celibate for as long as he could remember and extremely lonely. His work was monotonous and his salary exorbitant. Richard hardly slept for six hours and practically lived on innumerable cups of coffee. He often thought about changing his job, settling down, and making a famil

My Poems

Nature & Me Sitting up, staring out, Today I dream so pensively; above the clouds that surround me, What can there be?; Wish I’d fly and see… The casuarina tree in front of me, Standing so tall so as to make me see, The envious beauty of majestic spree… Then, the clouds all like a crowd, The silver lines and the sun’s lime, All to make me smile… I feel that kiss of the butterfly’s mist, And that seamless river sings to me, Of the plans it’s concave shores have for me… Over the river and through the woods, The cottage, oh! So history; How lonely, and anticipated, Reminds me of a mystery in a confusing secret… The grey clouds crowning me, Crying, with such joy and glee Oh! Just how much do I love this rain on me… Then I jump back to reality, From immortality to mortality, From pensive so happily, I fall into the natural bliss; Of eternal peace that’s always dismissed… The end that never ended… My world’s coming to an end I’ve been chased away Not quite convinced I’m not only broken