"We are always taught to follow our dream to achieve greater goodness in life. What if one doesn't have any dreams to pursue? What do they achieve in life?" Won't that make a great opening line for a book? Or a movie for that matter? Well, of late, such potent thoughts have started visiting me the moment my head hits the pillow. I lie there helplessly drugged by my desire to sleep and the inertia to get up, brave the cold, switch on the laptop and key in those words for posterity. Maybe, one day I will overcome the odds and just do it. Should I?
Last night they discovered a human in the sewers, screamed the headline on Daily Vermin Times. Ed Rat paused to scan the headline and sipped his morning tea. He was in charge of the highly successful Human Extermination Programme. He came from the highly acclaimed family of rats that had unleashed Plague on the frail human race centuries ago. At that time rats used to be in the sewers and the humans used to be outside. Maybe they too had a Vermin Extermination Program. How ironic, thought Ed. We were destined to rule the world. We withstood their poison and laboratory tests. In fact, the tests made us stronger and resistant to the diseases. Now look at them hiding in sewers away from us, fearing us. The telephone rang. Ed woke with a start from his reverie. There must be something wrong, he thought. My room has shrunk, there are metal bars everywhere. It looks like a cell. I can see my cousins in another cell. They are all playing with something. What's this lump on my hand? What...
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