Karunya

It was eleven at night. The moon was as fresh as a daisy, but her offspring were half asleep, yet they somehow opened their eyes to be a beautiful, dazzling sight to the lives below.   "Has everybody slept?". There was no response from the other side. "Hello? Can you hear me?"   "Hey! Y... Yeah! I just made sure that everyone was asleep."   They both unzipped their lips while the night was still.   "It was a twelve-hour hectic day. I had to carry so much weight, and it feels like heaven after finally letting them down."   "I hope you realize that I had to go through the same thing today."   "Oh really? Our bad!"   "I know."   After a while, "you know what? I want to talk to you."   "Everybody is asleep. This is the right time for us to talk. Shoot!"   "It feels sad to realize that we will never see each other."   "The wall in between us will never let us. I tried breaking it once, a...

It was an empty bound with a couple of trains on either platform. A beautiful family of a couple of crows and their to-be-hatched hatchlings seemed to live happily in their nest on the shelter of the railway station. The trees concerned the stressed people of a busy city and shook their heads to provide them with a fresh breeze. There were vacant seats on the platform except one, which was occupied by a teenager, Zara, wearing baggy jeans and a tucked-in pale yellow high neck top, carrying a cross-body bag. Tick-Tick-Tick! The clock had hit ten. A clown with a dejected look seemed to dance inside her. She appeared as a sombre sky. Was it a terrible nightmare? No. Didn't she have enough food? No. She appeared as if the sun had dawned in the west and an apple had struck the air due to zero gravity. She looked as if Beauty and the Beast never held hands, and Rapunzel had her hair cut short. She looked so different. The problem wasn't known yet, but it was clear that her mind was u...