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Wednesday, June 12, 2013

June 11: Fragment

From @sharasekaram:
I clutch onto the fragment you hear that I still hold. I pray it is enough, and if I hold on tight enough that you will come back to me. That you will reach on and give me your whole heart – not just a sliver. For you, without a shadow of doubt –have mine.

From @shamsmakkiya:
DAY- 1 [23:00]
Dick Costolo receives a call.
"We have annihilated your highly secured domain to fragments"
"What!? Who are you?"
"US."

DAY- 2 [01:00]
Millions of users encountered network blackout.

DAY- 2 [06:00]
Breaking News: The CEO of the renowned social networking site, Twitter, passed away due to Sudden Cardiac Arrest.

Anonymous: We have reached a milestone.

From Priyanthie de Silva:
The light was failing, so I shut the book with a sigh. It was absorbing, the fragment of a young life, snuffed out prematurely. The tale related the bourgeoning interest of the protagonist, in the girl next door, little realizing that she was married. She led him on, the husband returned unexpectedly & caput all was ended!

From theshadowseeker:
Ten years had passed since she had seen him last. Their parting words nothing but hateful and harsh. Scattered around her, lay the melting shards of the hate they had built, broken now for the man who lay motionless. A mere fragment of the man she had known. And loved.

From Mythify:
He wore the aeons-old apple core on a string around his neck. Rotten, it was, with greyish mould and the occasional maggot crawling out of it. He loved it, though. It drove him to greater depths and new horrors. It was, after all, a fragment of the very first sin – his greatest victory yet.

From @PaviliciousK:
I peel off this skin. Puke away the bile. A sweat of memories drips down my face. 

Drops that linger on my eyelashes. But not for long. 

Pieces of my life, fragments of a broken life wash down the drain. 

That’s enough. The time has come. Step forward. 

New life.Wholeness. Rebirth.

I Rise. 

From @Mari_deSilva:
Who knew that one miniscule experience would determine the course of her heart for life? That her heart would never again love unconditionally, trust implicitly, give unrestrained or care selflessly. She never realised how much she lost along with her gain. How much she’d changed. What power she’d given that one missing fragment...what a shame.

From @wIkIfReAkz:
MMXIII AD

Alice woke up from her deep slumber.

"Where am I..?" she wondered. "Or is this also a fragment of the same dream?"

She wandered through the hallway.

All she could find were nothing but some weird machines and wired humans.

"Gosh.. This is the strangest!"

She saw a wall calendar read: 'June, 2013'

From @Pennykinned:
After he left, she kept wearing the wedding ring, prepared for a lifetime of loneliness and misery.

But there came a day when she outgrew this fragment of the past. It was time to take the ring off, leave her hand bare to grasp new possibilities.

Even the most broken hearts do heal, eventually.

3 comments:

  1. All the tales are very well-written and powerful.... :)

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  2. Hi Ritesh! Glad you are enjoying the stories. We are very lucky to have such awesome storytellers participating! :)

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  3. yes, i can see that...keep going

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