Was it the end of the world?
11 Feb 2010 8 Comments
in Dreams Tags: Fantasy, glass balls, imagination, world
Earth is no more the beautiful planet that our ancestors walked on. Things changed for the worse. The world is unraveling strange things, unseen and unheard off and we always live in constant fear, keeping an eye open for the imminent death that can come from any direction.
It was a hot sunny afternoon, when drove into the endless desert in the grungy jeep. The wind had the compelling pull force in the direction we are heading to. It is building up fast and needs to be arrested. As the jeep stopped, we started running to the destructor. It is installed in the sand and is already building up the circular reverse effect. But it cannot manage the storm that is brewing up.
World has changed into a desert. The earth’s internal temperature has been increasing. Hot waves tremor the earth and burst out, creating hot spots. The waves have a strange effect of converting sand into glass balls as they erupt through the hot spots. These glass balls are of almost 4cm in diameter and form a circle of 10 feet diameter. Rings of these glass balls keep rotating and revolving until they gain energy to slip off into the thin air. And as the circular ring of balls moves ahead, it slowly sucks in everything that is around, burning anything that comes into contact with it.
We call it the Death Ball. The shiny balls move like an air bubble, silently and gracefully: who can believe that hidden behind that amazing creation of nature, is a silent death approaching your way?
I stopped still, staring at the death ball: Nature creation is unbelievably humble though this time it’s a killing machine. Rana called out for me and I came back to my senses. I kept moving ahead still looking at the death that is slowly nearing us. If the destructor is not repaired, whatever living form is left on this earth will perish in no time. By the time I neared the destructor, Rana and the others have reprogrammed the machine and I could feel the sand under my feet slipping away. The destructor is the creation of the human mind that creates the similar circular rings as the Death Ball but has a nullifying affect. It creates huge rings of glass balls and attracts the one created by the hot spot. When the death ball is once inside the huge ring, it sends out a high energy pulse that destabilizes the affect of the death ball.
There is very less time. We could feel the pressure in the wind. The rings were building in size: It’s time to move away from that place. We ran few yards away and stood still, watching the destructor work. It’s pulling the death ball to its side but it is not strong enough to destabilize it. We waited there, praying for it to work. As the death ball entered the destructor space, the energy wave shot along the circular rings creating a negative effect. The destructor roared under pressure and finally we saw the glass balls fall to ground.
We did it. In the hot sun, lying on our knees, for the first time in the day, we felt relieved. It worked. The destructor now created gigantic rings of balls that are more than 100 feet in diameter. The very sight of the size and magnitude of the rings was reassuring.
As we were back in the jeep on our way to our den, I thought, after all we are the greatest creation of nature and so we still have hope.
What was that place..
27 Sep 2009 6 Comments
in Dreams Tags: Dreams, imagnations, weird
I was doing my MBA. It’s a weird place: Long stretches of land and nothing to be seen in the far distance. The college is spread out in the open space with no specific periphery drawn. There I was standing at a huge altitude on a floor, supported by huge beams. The floor was transparent and little scary to walk upon. It was the walkway that connects the girl hostel to the campus. The hostel is supported by just one huge pillar that runs from the ground to huge altitude where our world is constructed. The pillar comprises of the lift. Down below there is a guest house with a wonderful garden. There is only one house in the neighborhood and Neelima lives there. Why is Neelima not put up in the hostel? I don’t know!!
I went down in the lift and when the lift opened, there was a comforting breeze that hit my face. The atmosphere overall was pleasant and warm, you just feel like running in the fields and breathe the fresh air. I went down and Neelima called me up and told me to take care of the rat problem. There were these thick leaved busy croton plants that were grown in a square shaped area in the garden. The leaves were dark green in color with light green lines shooting from the stack to the tip of the leaf. They outgrew on to the walkway and whenever you walk through the walk way, as a ripple effect all the leaves move. You sometimes have to juggle your way out. They are so thick and connected. They were very beautiful.
She said that the bush has become a home for rat type animals and whenever someone walks through the bushes, they run out and land up in her garden and her dog keeps barking. She has informed about that before and I saw those rat type things walking away, yes they were walking with 2 legs, I had to drive them away from her house and her cute little dog (fully animated version) was trying to get loose from the belt it is tied with. Wired animals, they looked so beautiful in the garden: even the rats!!! .. Weird place..
I went around for some work and was back on the transparent flour carefully tiptoeing to the other side, my feet were waiting to step onto the hard floor. Uff, my heart sank for a minute. I kept walking and when I entered into this new walkway, it had huge pipes may be with a diameter of 12 feet that run along the walk way. It looks like a huge snake engulfing its prey. We can hear the gushing of some liquid inside those pipes. I don’t know what it is made for. Looks like some huge project.
There I was standing and talking to my friends, when we noticed Kabir standing next to an opening to the pipes. The lid was open and the sound was clear and resonating in the closed walkway. There was someone in a scuba diving suit: what the hell are they up to.. We went up to them and noticed that it was Preeti. I peeped into the opening where the liquid was rapidly flowing from one direction to other. It was a milky white liquid and was getting churned.
No, No way. I looked at Preeti “Are you crazy” and I could see her naughty smile from the mask. Kabir said that it is an experiment and he wants to calculate some liquid speed and blah blah. And he was so confident that it is ok and Preeti is preparing herself to jump into the pipes. I tried stopping both of them but in a fraction of a second she jumped in. I screamed and looked down. She was nowhere to be seen. The liquid gushing with such speed nothing was visible. And from nowhere came a guy with a weird suit that had something like a wings attached to it. He was looking like a buffoon. He was wearing a similar mask like Preeti. He looked like a joker and a guy who pokes his nose into everything. He started talking while setting up himself about how he is going to dive and about the weird, funny suit he was wearing. Suddenly Kabir pushed him by saying “Enough….” That guy was in the water shouting that he hasn’t yet switched those wings which will help him to float. It was a funny scene. Yet I was scared. I was looking inside for any trace of that guy but all I could hear was his distant screams. Everyone was laughing. They were rolling on the floor with laughter. It was funny..
Welcome to the Weird World!!
*Stupefied*
24 May 2009 6 Comments
in Dreams
She is walking with her friend when suddenly she felt something is wrong around. She ducked down when she saw a blue light traveling towards them. It seamed as if it started at some point and is traversing in all directions. When she got up to see what it was, she was shocked to see that her friend is stupefied along with others on the road. Before she could assimilate what happened, there was another wave of light traveling at a lower height than before. She had to almost sit down on the road. Slowly the waves started coming at different heights below and above the initial one. She lied down on the road pressing herself onto the road as much as she can to avoid the light. She could feel it passing below her through the gutters also. A slight move and she will be affected.
The waves stopped after quite some time. She froze with fear and dint budge or even twitch for long. She slowly started feeling the pain in her limbs. At last she got up and looked at her friend. He is still and a pale, white, transparent image of his was floating in his body and seamed bound to his stoned body. The image looked equally shocked and was wriggling to free itself. She freaked out. She tried touching that soul like image of her friend’s but she couldn’t. She is able to touch him but not the moving image. She dint know what to do. She looked around and moved away from her friend to see everyone in the same state. Every living and non living thing is brought to a halt and looked as if they are stuck in time. She ran around to see it everywhere. She took her phone to make a call but the phone dint work.
The reality crept in that the waves must have traveled all over the earth and everyone is in this strange state. Then at that time she heard heavy crashing and banging sound that caused the ground under her tremble. It was loud. She ran inside a hotel and hid behind the door. She kept peeping out while staying indoors. Suddenly there was a sound behind the cashier desk and she screamed. She got up to see what’s behind it and then a cat pounced onto the desk. Seams like it too escaped the rays. She calmed herself down and kept a watch on the street.
Hours passed by and none appeared. She seamed to be alone except for the cat and flies hovering around. She took the cat and came out of the hotel. She then ran to her room which was nearby. Locked herself inside. She saw her roommates each in a different place in the same state as everyone. Night was falling and it was scary to see the white images in her room mate’s bodies. One was on her bed and the other near the mirror. IT was very scary; she went into the hall and sat there on the mat all alone. She couldn’t sleep. Whole night she tried to but she couldn’t even close her eyes. She is too scared.
She was drowsy when Sunlight crept into her room. She got up and looked out of the window to see everyone in the same state. When she came out, it is dreadfully silent. Looking around, she entered the street with the cat lingering around her. She went to her friend who was in the same state.
She started in the direction of the sound to find out what it is, glancing in random directions all the time. As she walked by, all those images of people looked at her. She kept walking. She noticed that there are cracks in the road, and the place was dusty. Soon it was covered with broken fragments of walls, electricity poles, bricks, Building looked blown out. Soon she reached a point where in she noticed a huge dome like structure. It was big and looked like creature resting with half of its body inside the soil. It was completely plain without any ridges or openings. She walked around it hiding herself behind the rubble. It was huge and there was no opening. At that moment she noticed a hole dug near that huge structure. As she kept nearing it, she noticed footsteps from the hole.
Few seconds later she saw some people completely covered in some kind of suits and masks walking out with a machine in their hands. She ducked out of fear and dint budge from her place. When she looked back at them, she noticed them nearing towards the stupefied people. They were using their machines to suck out the moving images from the bodies and once that happened, the bodies fell lifeless. One by One they were doing that to everyone..She dint know what to do. She didn’t know is she can do something…
Yet another story which I haven’t thought of an ending…
Ana and the dreadful Smally
01 May 2009 2 Comments
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Ana was at her grand parent’s place. It’s been a long time she has visited them.She spent her early childhood with them in their wonderful house with lots of greenary around.
It was a bright sunny morning and she was in her tunic running here and there with the water pipe. She loved playing with the water pipe right from her childhood. Though she is in college now she still enjoys it. She was half wet when she was watering the plants Her eyes swept along the plant which was lush green and was as high as the wall beside and some of it was touching the gate beside. At that moment something caught her eye. She saw somebody climbing up the gate and coming into the house. She was dazzled at the sight.The lady said ‘Hi’ . Ana felt exited and said ‘Hi’. They were chatting when her grandma joined them. Grandma offered that lady something to eat. I don’t know if it is apt to call it a lady as it is very small miniature lady; hardly 1 feet tall and was wearing a short maroon spegati with a 3/4th trouser like thing. She has sparkling eyes.
Neither Ana nor her grandma looked surprised; rather Ana was happy to see it. I guess in their world these miniatures exist. It was a ‘Smally’. And Ana hasn’t seen one after she left her Grandparent’s place.
As they were chatting Ana felt that the smally was hiding something.She started feeling uneasy. There was something wrong with that smally.She then noticed the sharp teeth of the smally and it stuck her immediately that it was a flesh eating smally.She never saw one and heard they donot exist anymore .
She dint know what to do. She immediately saw the mirror beside her . She threw in on the smally and started stamping on the mirror. Grandma screamed. She started pulling Ana away but she wouldn’t stop and in mild gasps she told what it is. Now the expression on grandma face changed. When Ana stopped she looked down and felt a pang of nausea when she saw flesh tangled in the mirror. Grandma immediately swept it into a card board and threw it away on to the bushes beyond the wall. Ana was too shaken for killing a person though it is small and more importantly harmful. She kept staring from her compound wall at the cardboard.
Suddenly the shreds of the mirror started moving. Slowly she saw the flesh that was supposed to be smally’s face forming into a shape and then she saw those viscous eyes and the teeth. She was petrified. She was scared to even move from that place. By now the smally was back to shape and was staring at Ana when she heard a kid’s voice. The kid was walking along with her father on the pathway between the hill base and Ana house. The moment the kid saw the smally, she ran to it and grabbed it and started cuddling it.
Ana rushed out and told the kid to drop it and that it’s dangerous.The winsome smile that the smally had dint make the kid believe Ana.Ana tried pulling it off from her but her father stepped in the way.She tried telling the kid’s father what it is but he wouldn’t listen as he believed they no more existed.
Ana tried hard but couldn’t help. She saw the smally staring at her above the kid’s shoulders, Ana was sure that it’s not a normal smally. She was too shaken to think of anything expect that she dint want it with the kid.But she was just pushed away.
Ana dint do anything that day. In the night she started thinking about the smally. She was wondering what would happen to the kid. She doesn’t live there but her grand parents do. Ana just wished she killed it somehow. She was scared, worried. She kept complaining the days after and was scared to leave her grandparents and go. But she had to go. She always feared that the smally would attack her or her family.
Few months later, Ana was out with her Mom, Dad, her sisters and brother. It was a village where in they went to see some monument. There was a stream flowing beside the monument. The water was green and bottom invisible. It was bordered by patches of weeds. There was a small bridge, one side of which was the monument and the other side was the village area where stalls were up, selling food items and different kinds of stuff.
Ana was standing near a stall and eating corn when she suddenly saw something in the water. It looked like a Lizard. It was around 1 and half feet with fish like fins. It was at the same point but was moving its fins and tail. To have a better look she went near the edge of the stream. Only the face of the creature is outside the water now and it wasn’t moving at all. Suddenly it looked at Ana and started smiling at her with its teeth visible. Ana, shocked with the sight budged away. She started shouting about the thing in water. People gathered around her. She was sure it’s the same smally she saw at her grandma’s place. She was sure. But by that time everybody saw, it looked more like some reptile fish as it was no more smiling and was half inside water. But Ana was sure. She ran to the bridge and could feel the viscous look of the creature. She started looking around for something. Her family surrounded her and were trying to calm her down. She wouldn’t. Now it was not fear. It was an anguish to kill it somehow. She thought she would jump into the water but she was stopped. She wriggled but couldn’t get out from their hands. She saw the smally diving into the water and soon disappeared.
Ana fell on her knees. She again lost the chance to kill it.And it was a hard fact that the smally can change shape and that it remembers Ana.
. . . . . . .
I smiled at him and he smiled at me..
02 Mar 2009 Leave a Comment
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It is an open place with few houses placed here and there. There was this kid who was sitting alone in the sand and playing for himself. There was no one around. After sometime he got the company of a kid. Both of them got onto the giant-wheel which was the only thing present in the open place. When the giant-wheel started rotating, it was difficult to be seen because of the dust that was whirling around with the wind. When the man passing by could at last see the giant-wheel, he was shocked as the giant wheel is suspended in the air. He eyed the kid with fear and hatred and took the other kid with him. The kid looked at the giant wheel and started smiling and soon was lost in his own world.
I went to the kid and felt happy to see his winsome smile. We both started walking hand in hand. We were laughing, me with my words and the kid with his signs were able to communicate with each other. I was walking on the main road with the kid in my arms, enjoying each other company in the surroundings. We were walking to new places, unknown and oblivion to us. At last we reached a dam; there was an arrangement to go to the bottom. I was worried to go down but when I saw that smile on the kids face, I just walked into the lift. We reached the bottom and it was dark and dingy. I was looking around anxiously for an opening , but the kid kept smiling. I kissed him, hugged him. Deep down I was scared and was wishing the lift to be back. As if he understood, he looked at me with an assuring smile on his face and the lift door opened. Both of us smiled at each other.
Once we are out on the road again, it was still sunny. We again started moving ahead. Soon we reached the outskirts, we were walking on the road which was empty and was canopied by the tall trees that stood along the road. The air was cool and refreshing, the greenery around was pleasant and smell of the mud lively. We were lost in that world but were still moving ahead, happy and joyful.
Dawn was creeping in. And the transport I expected was not there. Near by,we saw college students boarding their buses to leave for home. The driver dint allow us and the buses were about to start. I ran to the office with the kid still in my arms and dint find anyone there. My heart started beating fast. The kid wasn’t smiling anymore. Some kind of realization crept in. I ran back to the buses but they have left leaving us alone. I started walking fast. The kid looked scared. I was running, hugging him close to me. As darkness started setting in, tears rolled down my eyes. Soon I was crying. I saw it…
The kid in my arms turned out to a doll. I shook him, I spoke aloud but nothing happened. I fell on my knees and was crying aloud holding him close to me. Night crept in completely…
I then was again at the same place where I first saw him. He was swinging the plank of the giant wheel that he was sitting on. He smiled at me and I smiled at him, in the dust and wind that was around, everything went invisible. But I could still feel his smile..
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