This is my 9th attempt at the month-long blogging challenge, Blogging from A to Z. I’ve completed it 5 times so far. My theme this year is 7 Sentence Fiction, and the phrase I’m using for F is Forbidden Fruit.
Forbidden Fruit
I wake up, as I always do, when the sunlight streams through my window. But today is different.
When I look out the window, I can see the children slowly going towards the big maidaan. Some are on their bicycles, others walking casually.
I can see some of my schoolmates too, holding cricket bats, stumps and the COSCO tennis ball. I turn, just for a second, eager to run down the stairs and join them for a game.
Then I see my reflection in the mirror, and sink back into bed, cursing my bad luck to have chicken pox during my summer vacation.
Forbidden Fruit: a thing that is desired all the more because it is not allowed. | Maidaan: playground
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(© Vinay Leo R. @ I Rhyme Without Reason,
6th April, 2018)
Vinay Leo R.
Poetry & writing are to me, a breath of fresh air in a life that is sometimes covered by the smoke of sorrow or self doubt. They also become the sweets I share to celebrate when life offers me a reason to. But most of all, they are to me, my life. For each word I write is a piece of my heart, a thought that just had to find its way into the world.
Oh, that’s so inconvenient, that too during the summer. When I read ‘COSCO’ I was reminded of the lime green balls that we used to play cricket with in the gully.
Yeah. In the gully, in those big grounds nearby home where there’d be five or six matches happening at the same time, sharing space and intersecting boundaries! Was a fun time, Anshu. 🙂
Aah!!! reminded me of the times when I had chicken pox. superb post, Vinay
Unfortunate days, Nidhi, when we’d be stuck at home and almost everything in the outside world seemed like forbidden fruit. 🙁
I had chicken pox as an adult so my memories of it are fresher – that must have been hard for that child!
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I had had it during summer vacations too, so I know it sucks. 🙁 Thanks for reading, Alana.
What rotten timing! Hopefully, there will be a few vacations days left when he recovers.
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Yes, Keith, I hope so. He’ll be irritated if it eats up the whole vacation.
Well written. Kept thinking of options for the twist and i wouldn’t have thought of this
It’s a very short fiction, doc, so to hear the twist was unpredictable makes me happy. 🙂 Thanks, Roshan.
Too bad he had chicken pox. Not the twist I imagined so the surprise at the end was worth it.
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Yes. I know. Glad that the twist was worth it. 🙂 Thanks, Sreedeep.