'I Finished The Short Story'

    • Soujanya Mukhopadhyay,
    • Standard: IX-A,
    • St. George's School, Alaknanda,
    • Delhi.

    • Publish Date: Oct 26 2016 9:14PM
    • |
    • Updated Date: Nov 2 2016 12:17PM
'I Finished The Short Story'

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 From The Short Story Series 

 

We present the best of short stories that have been submitted in answer to our call for 'Can You Finish This Story?' This is day 2, and the heat is on.  



I know you’re still really little, and that you’re probably too busy kicking the soccer ball out in the yard, but I want you to take a second to look around at what’s happening at home every day.

Notice the way your sister’s face changes when she sees classmates from her school when she takes you to the park to be with your friends. Look up from your game and watch her try to hide herself with her hair, looking desperately around to escape from the people who belittle her every day for just existing in her own skin.

Notice the way your mother polishes your soccer trophies reverently. See the shine in her eyes; a spark is all that’s left of the fire that once used to burn in her. The fire that made her wake up early every morning to slip out before the household awoke, slip into your uncle’s discarded sports shoes and stuff up a sock with newspapers bundled up and practice with all her might on the little scrap of land behind their house, only to have it all taken away when she was married off. Now she still wakes up at the crack of dawn, but instead of doing what she was always meant to do, she fixes your school lunch that you never eat.

Look beyond the merciless way your father forces you to pick up books more than balls. Notice the way his life seems to stop if he doesn’t get his morning paper. Notice how he carefully cuts out the good articles and sticks them in a weathered old binder.

Watch how he fervently follows the news, watch the fleeting emotions across his face, like a thirsty man who can see the river on the horizon but knows that there is no way to reach it. Ask him someday about how he abandoned his journalism degree halfway to join the family business when his father died.

Notice all these little things about the ones who share your life with, but hardly know.


Tell us what you think of this story in the comments section.
And then come back tommorow for the next in line! 

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Comments

Harini MS NAGARJUNA VIDYANIKETAN

This is amazing!! My favorite of all stories I''ve read in a while!! <3

Ambuja Rani Ryan International School

good values! really nice

Sharmeen Khan PADUA HIGH SCHOOL-MANKHURD

Beautiful story. It gives us an insight of all the sacrifices our family has made.

Prakash.B Bethel Mat Hr Sec School

The values are so good...

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