Souvik Nandi's BLOG

  Yet again, her words pierced my mind like bullets. A feeling that I had befriended long before now. But back then, those were Ice shards that melted in my heart, making me forget the pain I felt when they harpooned deep in my chest in the first place. Ever held something so cold in your hand that the cold reached your heart? These shards, gave me the chills that shattered the warmth of my core, made my knees so weak that I had to take a seat. I thought I had forged myself for all contingencies. I bet, life gave me a smirk at that moment.  What's more painful than an eternal winter with raining knives of ice from the dark heavens? "Hah ! Nothing !!". I stand corrected. In the greens of the Amazon, hunters use arrows of poison to end the life of their prey or for self-defense. Little frogs bearing the majestic colours of death on their backs. Ironic isn't it ? The bullets she launched at me didn’t only give me pain while puncturing, it continued inflicting the horribl...

"How Are you?" She answered, “fine, you?” The deafening silence already declared the answer. She stared blankly at the dark ceiling, hoping to find something interesting to see there, to engage her mind. But, it was, after all, dark. Continuous pings from her phone failed to attract her attention from the literal void. Fingers run into her hair as she closes her eyes. She was craving for the pampering touch for months now.  She asked “do you miss me?” Her voice faded away through the window, across the rainy, cloud covered sky. The monotonous sound of rain and sudden lightning made the weather dreary. The smartphone which knew her fingerprints better than herself was chiming with notification tone, waiting for her to touch it, but failing over and over. Maybe the phone understood because it went silent. Tears rolled down her cheeks but she didn’t try to wipe it away like always. There was no makeup to be ruined. A loud thunder tried to cover up her sudden outburst...