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Stage fright

I knew it. I knew that the speech would be bad. I knew stage fright would occur. I knew the mayor’s wife would not be as brave as her husband. I knew it all along. But what happened after that I never expected!              I was putting my best outfit for the speech. The mayor’s wife was giving the answers to all our problems. Our small city is suffering millions and millions of problems including the mayor’s illness. “Here comes Miss Elegenda!”. The audience gave a standing ovation upon hearing the name. Out came the “Princess”. The face was so beautiful, the skin was so smooth and the hair was so long and the eyes were flustering with shyness. She had a vivid personality. My eyes were glued to her beauty, I was agape with disbelief.              “Nice?” I heard a boy’s voice. My head turned in curiosity. It was the Colin Creevy. My school mate. “Ya!” I repli...

Fear of being alone

I always hated it. The dark feeling that I always hate kept on coming when I am alone.  It all started when I heard a story…..            Rain pattered on the window sill as I looked wearily at my brother, Pranav, as he listened to his I-pod. I went to him and asked him to tell me a story. He sneered at me in an evil kind of way. He started this very scary story. Once upon a time, there was a man eating Cannibal. He looks for small boys and chops them to pieces and eats them with deserts made by blood. He said he might appear anywhere and cut even me into small pieces. I shuddered at the thought of being chopped. I kept thinking about this story the whole day.             I could not sleep well that night. The Cannibal man kept on coming in my dreams, chopping my head, my hands, my legs and happily laughing while doing so. He even laughed out loud that the whole world can hear.            ...