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Submitted to Contest #65
After a fierce fight between her and her husband, she locks herself in her room and starts crying hysterically. She feels as if she is shattered into pieces. Years after years, she fights to survive. Her mere existence is unbearable to her family. Her only guilt is being alive. She wishes to die and ends her suffering. She always thinks that being alive is an honor that she does not deserve. Her thoughts are always unkind to her. The others not only make her loath her own soul, but also b...
Submitted to Contest #64
As I pass by the city of Heliopolis, my fascination of the famous Baron Palace grows more and more. It is a place where you can find the meeting point of the east and the west. It is the mixture of two different architectural types; the outer statues and the fence belonging to Renaissance style, and the château, with a high dome decorated with statues of the Buddha gilded with gold and platinum, inspired by the Hindu temples of Orissa in India and Angkor Wat in Cambodia. On the outside, the palace is carved with the reliefs of Hindu gods lik...
Submitted to Contest #63
There is a swallow, not like any other swallow. Her longing eyes are a mixture of wisdom and sorrow. Her wings carry her to explore the world. She has relatives all over the world and the ages. One day, she sees a wonderful princess in her balcony bitterly crying as if she were a prison in her wonderful place. The young lady wears a blue, gold silk beaded dress like a fairy tale princess. The swallow hears her singing in a melancholic tone:” How miserable I am! I need someone to be with me. I need so...
Submitted to Contest #62
Preparing for the main role in the play, here is John in the old library. This library is ancient as life, and has millions of books. It survived both birth and death of nations and civilizations. People say that one of the tyrants tried once to burn it as it was a resort to the refugees from his dictatorship. Yet history fails to write how it survived and the link between his death and the survival of the library. John is always obsessed with this gothic library, and feels as if there is a mys...
Submitted to Contest #61
She sits motionless in her armchair. She hears her neighbors shouting, and laughing, simply alive. She stares at her book of Virginia Woolf’s The Room of One’s Own and never turns the page over for the last hour. Is she reading? Is she pretending reading? Is it just an escape from her reality? Is it just fantasy? She is half dead, half alive. She remembers that she has been in this room for 2 years now and has never been out. Her room is familiar to you as if it were the real version of Vincent Van Gough’s...
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