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When the party is over...

 A flashing light filled her eyes when she woke up in the middle of the road. Alone, not remembering why and what happened. Being confused, she set herself up at her foot and looked around. It was nighttime. The road was Newtown Street. She remembered. Working hard on her memory, she remembered somethings.   She went to a party, her best friend's birthday party. She had her life's best day after her family moved to Park Avenue. She was crossing the road and then she heard a screech and then nothing. The next thing she remembers is the flashing street light.   She walked across the empty street and found out that the party was over. All around lying rubbish that was to be dumped out of the house in the morning.   She remembered some flashbacks of the party and the loud noise of the burstings balloons and the shrieks of laughter everywhere. She remembered she was happy. She knew she would gossip about the things that happened the next day.   She walked down t...

The Poor Player.

   It was mid-summer when I was returning home from my job interview. Kolkata, home. I had missed the morning train, so I had to take an afternoon train. It was hot. Everybody on the platform was perspiring. Luckily, I got the window seat. At that time I was blind. I had a couple of contact lenses earlier, but they weren't for me. So I had decided to get a pair of new glasses once I return home. Not to mention, but I had a pair buried under my stuff in my handbag. But those glasses didn't work wonders. I did not have the perfect vision with those but it was blurry. And without the glasses, I couldn't make out anything.    While I was sitting by the window, Dada shouted from outside,' Arjun, traveling without eyes is already hard. don't make it harder. Once you reach Kolkata, the hospital will manage. Come on, wear those pair of glasses that you have.' I did not mind him. The glasses are buried under all my things. It's not safe to unpack stuff while travelin...

Little Bit Older.

A Little Bit Older. Once upon a time, there lived a girl who had it all. Loving parents, caring grandparents, and funny siblings. Bit not all of her siblings were funny. There was a sister who was not funny at all. She (as said by the little girl) used to get on her nerves! At least for her, she was really annoying. But as the only loving elder sister that the little sister had, she could not do anything but stay silent. And every time the little sister would visit, the little girl and the little sister 'must' have a fight.    Actually, the little sister was also in a way the little girl's aunt! She did not really care about the tangled relationships of her family. She only knew that she belonged to one. The little girl called her little sister and/or aunt "Little Aunt". It was a funny name. But the little girl had been calling her by that name from when she was really little. So she didn't care anymore about it being funny anyway.     But as she was growing o...