"Looks like life has taken a back seat. Everyday brings in its own load of troubles and dumps it on you. You just waddle in all that shit to stay afloat. Until someone comes and flushes you down." Sounds great isn't it? The writer asked his audience of an empty chair and a scraggy cat. The cat got startled by the sudden outburst. The chair just sat there dazed, like the millions of editors he had assaulted with his manuscripts.
He couldn't keep count of the days or nights as he was always surrounded by darkness. No he wasn't blind nor did someone blindfold him. He fell in to a deep dark hole that's all. He was rushing to catch the last train home. Since it was getting late he decided to take the shortcut. Before he fell, all that he saw was a lamppost by the tracks. The impact of the fall switched off the lights in his brain. When he recovered, it was dark. He tried to feel his way around. But to his surprise all that he could feel was the darkness around him. It was as if he was encased in a thick gooey dark liquid. It held him tight. It moved with his movements. It felt as if he was part of the liquid. He floated in it. He never felt hungry or cold. In fact he felt comfortable. For the first time, he felt safe. Slowly he began to forget what he was and whom he knew. In this darkness, it was impossible to wrack his brain. Everything was slowly getting shrouded in darkness. Until that day when he ...
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