1. It was a story inside a story: I didn’t expect the grandma to offer me water and tea. It was rare but it did happen. Her son was out doing work for he had been out of work for long. Peevish crying everyday. Bugging one and all and finding faults have been his lifelong obsessions which got extra demonic these days. He neither let you sleep well nor let you eat in peace. His greedy restlessness was hunting you because you seemed like an investment gone wrong. The scorpion mother tried to put her lust into fake caring voice which she still confused with motherly care but surfaced only when her husband was not around. You either understand scorpions or you don’t. These ladies were playing good cop. Temporarily, to draw out something from you. On command of their owner– In order to know what they considered were secrets I was carrying in my heart, whereas, I had no secrets and I saw them coming from miles.
What do they say? Once Bitten twice shy! Why, oh my my, I was bitten a zillion times so to say, by millions like them and yet couldn’t be shy but I had mastered to slay their dragons and scorpions just in time to ward them off. The best revenge is to live well.
2. Wordlstar Cafe: was constantly closed. What made it a decade and half ago seemed like a progressive step in this town. Pizzas: costly food which is not healthy for your budget or intestines. I had no pizza in the last eight years and I secretly craved it sometimes. Cozy Star Cafe: why did they name these cafes like that? Now, there were two ultra modern hotels for marriages but the pandemic was playing pandemonium umlaut plaudit dithering ringtone dipthong Hong Kong dingdong singsongs Singapore claptrap humdrum humbug gummy worms Armageddon donning Inglewood wodden dense mesnes nested loops bloops Nescafe nascent scent incandescent bulbs. Come to think of it, the whole town felt as if it was in a decrepit state.
3. I had overestimated their worth in every which way: especially their spiritual worth. A water ball seller was killed for asking ₹5 as the payment. It was about 25 kilometres near this town. I was having warerballs near the waterfalls when he was attacked by a drunk guy named Ramkishan and there was a snowstorm nearby. On the way back, I heard some shocking news.
Dancing light of grace 