{"id":1072,"date":"2008-09-12T13:17:12","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T07:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/?p=1072"},"modified":"2008-09-12T13:17:12","modified_gmt":"2008-09-12T07:47:12","slug":"55-word-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2008\/09\/12\/55-word-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"55 word stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Author : Veerabhadra Siva Sanjeev K. <\/p>\n<p>The suicide<br \/>\nI woke up from my bed only to find her hanging to the ceiling. \u2018My wife was killed by some one\u2019 I couldn\u2019t even digest the fact. The police were at the place in a few minutes. Just below her body was mine with a knife stabbed in my heart and her fingerprints on it.<\/p>\n<p>The headache<br \/>\nI was having a splitting headache. I gulped a tablet. I applied a balm. No avail. And finally I removed a hammer and started banging it onto the head. First time and the pain reduced. Second time and it reduced even further. And third time. All my three roommates lie in a pool of blood.<\/p>\n<p>Wrong number<br \/>\n\u201cHello,\u201d a sweet voice called me up on my mobile. \u201cIs this Rakesh?\u201d she asked. \u201cNo ma\u2019am, wrong number, but you can still talk to me,\u201d I said as I was bored at my workplace. \u201cCome home in the evening and the pan will do the talking,\u201d the voice said and she cut the call. <\/p>\n<p>Why should boys have all the fun<br \/>\n\u201cShhh.. Don\u2019t shout. We\u2019ll start to Goa tomorrow. Nobody\u2019s gonna tell the guys,\u201d the girls were contemplating in the next room. Having overheard the conversation, I said \u201cDestination Goa.\u201d We were off to Goa. Two days later, we don\u2019t find the girls in Goa.<br \/>\n\u201cGuys, where have you all been? We are enjoying at home\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My monkey wife<br \/>\n\u201cI woke up today morning when I looked at the window. I then saw this monkey so huge and fair and dressed up well, imitate me.\u201d I was trying to make fun of my wife, who normally imitates me, by calling her a monkey.<br \/>\n\u201cYou call this window?\u201d my wife asked pointing to a mirror.<\/p>\n<p>The Split<br \/>\nI slowly placed my head on the wooden platform and she slowly raised the axe. I closed my eyes in fear and she gripped the handle firmly in her hands. I said my last prayers and \u2018thud\u2019 fell the axe onto the wood splitting it apart. She was in Tokyo and I was in California.<\/p>\n<p>My first love<br \/>\nThe first time I saw her, she was shaking her body in the aerobics class. I almost drooled over her beauty. She looked at me and smiled. The world beneath me vanished and the sky appeared to be coming closer towards me. I opened my arms wide open and said, \u201cIlleana darling, I love you\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The portrait trilogy<br \/>\nAt the museum, we reached a dark place. Three portraits were hanging. In the first, a bloody ghoul was feeding on a woman. In the second, a demon ripped apart itself and in the third there was a female, still and calm. \u201cDamn, She moved\u201d I shouted. \u201cStupid fool, that\u2019s a mirror,\u201d my wife remarked.<\/p>\n<p>The hitchhiker<br \/>\nA beautiful girl on the highway was flashing two fingers. I crossed her and looked at her, through the rear view mirror. She was gone. Next moment she was behind me in my car. I swerved left and hit a tree. Later, a truck driver came that way and saw the girl showing three fingers.<\/p>\n<p>The race<br \/>\nI was driving home when a car vroomed past me. I started to race with that Civic. Swerving to the left and cutting across the lane, I was about to overtake it when I showed my finger and then vanished from sight. Later that night, my dad asked me the meaning of showing the finger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author : Veerabhadra Siva Sanjeev K. The suicide I woke up from my bed only to find her hanging to the ceiling. \u2018My wife was killed by some one\u2019 I couldn\u2019t even digest the fact. The police were at the place in a few minutes. 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