Faces of fearlessness......
Hearing Voices?!
The Shining
“Monsters are real and ghosts are real too, they live inside of us and sometimes they win.” In Stephen King’s horror novel, ‘The Shining’, Danny’s dad becomes the caretaker of the Overlook Hotel in the off season hoping to cure his writer’s block, and then strange things begin to happen. Five-year-old Danny Torrance is a ‘shiner’ (aglow with psychic voltage), this allows him to detect spirits and he begins to have terrifying visions as the hotel takes on a life of its own. Danny has the ability to read minds and mentally converse with others who read minds. Danny he sees glimpses of danger before and after it happens thanks to his ‘imaginary friend’ Tony. In the movie ‘Sixth Sense’ a troubled, isolated boy named Cole Sear is able to see and talk to the dead people who are walking around like regular people. They don’t see each other, they…
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JSW Prompt 8-6-2018
“In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer” – wrote Albert Camus, a timeless seer of truth. My take on it is that he was talking about creativity. It lies inside all of us, unused and unrecognized at times. It surprises us by its sudden appearance … Continue reading JSW Prompt 8-6-2018
Reena’s Exploration Challenge – Week 48 8-9-2018 Response
Reena’s Exploration Challenge Week 48
Welcome to Week 48
Today’s challenge is fairly simple.
Just use the given sentence somewhere in your piece – poem, story, anecdote, memory, quotation or anything else. You may choose to just take the theme, and not use the words in your piece.
She walked through fire, but was not burnt by it……
At least on the outside. No burns were visible, no scars, no charred flesh to show the pain bound deep inside. Fire was her natural habitat. Fire, in fact, had long ago ceased to mean anything in her life. She no longer felt the burning on her skin, flesh melting like watercolors in the rain.
Once damaged, nothing mattered but that she walked firm in the world, head held high, eyes fixed before her, forever towards the horizon. Survival. Survive the fire. Survive the looks, the horror, the memory of what she once had…
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Those two
All the persuasion by his friends failed to make him participate in a jungle picnic. He looked petrified, and his wife insisted that he be left alone. The friends decided to take him to a counsellor later. Nobody realized that he was consumed by guilt. It was a crime committed in the first flush of … Continue reading Those two
Reena’s Exploration Challenge #Week 49 – We stopped checking for monsters
We stopped checking for monsters under the bed
When we realised they were inside of us
It’s up to us how to tread
We can’t be blameless
We still believe the power of atoms
Which are held together by electrons
Our source of energy one can say
Surrounding us in every way
The cycle of life in our journey
Children born every minute
People returning back to heaven
Continuation of lines or trees
The changing of the sky each day
Each day different we really can’t tell
One day bright, next day grey
Still mesmerising like a spell
And the humble stone, do we use it
As a stepping stone or throw it to someone?
Do we stand or do we sit, eat or sleep?
And the dust, do we leave it or sweep?
For: Reena’s Exploration Challenge #Week 49
Reena’s Exploration Challenge #Week 49
Welcome to Week 49! Walking through fire and not getting burnt reminded me of ghosts. What is a ghost but a spirit? We see them as unwanted relics of the past, who seemingly, refuse to leave our world. We fear them, because they are not limited by physical bodies and can get in anywhere. What … Continue reading Reena’s Exploration Challenge #Week 49
Mindset
There are days when the white clouds look like flocks of birds, which will descend to destroy the flowers. Their menacing shapes symbolize evil, out to destroy happiness. I desperately want to spread a net on the flowers, or cover them with my body to protect. There are days when I think that the sky … Continue reading Mindset
Leaking goodwill
The Grartor party last year was akin to the Ashley Madison data leak. The organizers had laid down facts with proof on the tables, but remained invisible themselves. It led to a lot of speculation along with break-ups and heartburn. Who could be masterminding this? The guy I spurned in college, because he was too … Continue reading Leaking goodwill
Future
The media devotes more space to kinky behavior and displays of brute power, because ‘man bites dog’ is a story, not the reverse of it. Gamers get a chance to display more of what they consume on their newsfeeds, and then one fine day, they lay their hands on an actual weapon with fire or … Continue reading Future
