“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.”

Sunday, June 15, 2014

The Unheard Elegy (Flash Fiction in exactly 100 words)




She was a silent beauty. She could walk in a crowd not drawing much attention, but when she looked at you, you would forget yourself in her eyes. She was conceived right out of a poem, its verses her body, slender and fine. She walked in rhythm, the little ringlets of golden hair swaying. When she laughed, there was a twinkle in her eyes, a spot of mischievousness discernible, here now, then gone. Confusing, bewitching, maddening! Such happiness! 

In her religion, women never showed their face to strangers. Her life remained an unheard elegy to unseen beauty.

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