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I Know You Are There

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"Light is easy to love, Show me your darkness" - R. Queen August 14, 2020 I remember the popular quote; "Love is blind, a deaf-mute too". But I believed, love without all that, is no love. What this four-letter word had to do with my life?. On this fateful day, last year, on our 9th wedding anniversary, we lost her. Yaazhi was scorched by fire in this same house. She was 8 years old, cheerful, hyper little girl, arrived to make our life beautiful. After her demise, people suggested selling this house. But how could I erase the last memory of her? We rebuilt the house, and now she was there playing with her doll muffin, running around the house, much alive. I closed my journal after reviving her memory; one year had passed without her, yet I remained the same, a lost mother. A familiar hand touched my shoulder; it was comforting. "Move on, Seema" Dev - my boyfriend turned husband whispered behind me. 1 I checked myself in the mirror, the dark circles beneat

The Killer Couple

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We are into this together Finally, we have decided to kill them. She was reluctant until now, being an amiable woman. But these criminals are not merciful - invading our privacy, relentless in disrupting our peace; we are not to be merciful either.  We fancied this house for being close to nature - acres of reserve forest one side, never draining lake on the other side, this place is a treasure but also a brewing ground for raiders. They are named raiders because they strike people in groups, particularly after the sunset, raid their houses, show no mercy to neither children nor elders. There were abandoned houses, and no neighbors for at least 100 feet from our place, served us an apparent target. People don't want to live here; remote and tranquil, often gave shivers that someone is staring at them all the time. To add misery, street lights were not working for a long time, our repetitious complaints were inaudible to the authorities through the dense trees. "Honey, we were