*Stay faithful to the stories in your head.


* Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.

Sunday, June 15, 2008

Earthy Tantrums



Earth was feeling jealous, and her blue haze actually turned a little green.
Why was Sun giving more attention to that small little satellite…..and the Moon was no less – basking in the light of Sunny attention. Huh!!!!! I’ll block out the Moon completely – that’ll teach her a lesson
Earth fretted & fumed for a couple of days….and then realized that full moon day was approaching soon. The Moon really showed herself off a lot on full moon day. She even inspired a whole lot of earthlings to write about her beauty.
Earth thought, “If only half the people who kept mooning about that satellite wrote something about her, she wouldn’t feel so bad. But wait till full moon day – I’ll block her off completely.”
So Earth positioned herself….and her shadow cut the Sun’s light off completely. The Moon was blocked out.
Aha this is nice – just block out that pesky white shining satellite. No more poems on the Moon, no more gazing out at the moon….and the Sun too will forget you by the by. But wait, I’ll have to do this for a long period of time – only then will people forget the Moon. So I’ll not rotate anymore – I have to hold on to my position….the Moon has to be shut out. My shadow completely blocks her off today – this has to go on for atleast another month.”



24 hours passed – and lo behold the Earth just did not move. Her jealousy made her stop in her tracks – her only thought being that the Moon must be blocked out.
The earthlings were all puzzled, most were in a state of panic, The scientists did not how to explain the phenomenon of lunar eclipse for 2 nights consecutively. The religious heads were sure that Armageddon was not far away.


Up somewhere, the Big Boss sighed. He had to do some talking to with Earth…..So He came by visiting her. The sight of Big Boss gave Earth the shivers, she felt ashamed, and understood how a twinge of a petty emotion had made her act so irresponsibly.
She looked within herself, and found the earthlings extremely puzzled and panicky. She had shivered wit shame, and the scientists were already studying the correlation of extended lunar eclipse to earth quakes.
Earth sighed and promised the Boss that she will never mess with His creation and cosmic plan. Boss smiled, and gave Earth a little pat which set her back in motion. She started rotating, her shadow moved on, and the moon was sighted again.


God thought “Alls well that ends well. Now I can sit back and see the comedy movie which will be put up by the earthling scientists. They will puzzle over the new phenomenon of lunar eclipses and earthquakes…..someone might even win the big prize the earthlings call Nobel, while doing a research over years and coming to some weird and obscure conclusion."

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Strength (Featured in Klash)


Klash of the Konfessioners is a blog where a group of us write in regularly. We have to write about a given word. Here's one such entry of mine (featured during the week of 19th Mar08). The word was STRENGTH.


I looked blankly at the question “What is your strength”

Was it -
My smile?

Granddad always said I could get away with murder with my smile.

My sharp tongue?

Used to the hilt, while ticking the errant gardener...... and when the waspish oldie hid our cricket ball ....and when the irritating salesman didn’t take no for an answer.


Spinach?

Mom always heaped our plates with it, saying, “it’ll give you strength”.

“Spinach” was my scribbled answer.
The interviewer looked and remarked “Ms Sen we asked for your strength, not your eating habits”


Sigh!!!! Mom you were wrong.
I tried to smile – the interviewer just looked stony. Grandad you were wrong too.
I felt too weak to try my third strength.