Thursday 24 April 2014

Escape..

  The house looked forlorn, it’s once magnificent walls now covered in ivy and the winter snow lay soft on the ground stirring something deep within my soul. I unlocked the huge wooden doors and stepped inside and a sudden feeling of loss overwhelmed me, pulling me down with it to bottomless dark pits that plunged my whole world upside down. Five long years away from all that I had loved, away from her haunting memories, away from her bittersweet presence...I walked up to the beautiful portrait and leaned my head against it, no longer willing to escape, as I heard her soft voice whisper...


  It’s Christmas my love. And you are finally home...


Written as part of the Five Sentence Fiction prompt.
Word Prompt: Vacation

17 comments:

  1. How beautiful was this. I'm glad I stumbled across this.

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  2. Quite a poignant picture of going back to a home someone has once lived in. The cold wintry scene adds to the dreariness, and sadness remembering a parent or grand-parents who had owned the house. WELL DONE !!!

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    1. Thanks Robin!! So glad you liked the post..:D

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  3. Serene!!!... :) I love your wordplay, reminds me of those books I grew up reading.

    P.S. I don't know if you got notified or something, but I listed your blog on my blogroll... :)

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    1. Thanks so much Samik.. Yes I got notified.. I'm honored!! :D

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  4. "Written as part of the Five Sentence Fiction prompt.
    Word Prompt: Vacation"

    Couldn't have been any better with those constraints. It's beautiful.

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    1. Thanks Avik.. Coming from you that is high praise indeed..

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  5. I loved reading your description of the place and your memory.

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  6. Nicely penned down Anusree :)
    Keep blogging

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