Boatful Of Memories
By Neel Anil Panicker
Little John hated journeys, especially boat trips.
The badness started the day after his exams.
”Get ready, we are leaving for Chennai”.
He lay in his bed, transfixed like a stone, long after his father had left.
The next morning he found himself stranded in a boatful of shrieking humans, all jazzed up in psychedelic colours, with even the boat’s bow thrusting out into the skies like a massive rainbow.
Disgusted, he turned his face to the waters below. And there he saw what he had come to dread the most__ his mother’s face, angelic and smiling, her hands reaching out to him from below the waters, her eyes locking his in sheer desperation, and then the waters turning a bloodied red.
He felt a tap on his shoulder.
He turned around to find his new mother-in-law smiling down at him.
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FFfAW Challenge-Week of January 10, 2017
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97th Challenge
Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers
Week of 01-10 through 01-16-2017
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Good one Neel. I can see why he hated boat trips, and I suspect perhaps his mother’s death was a sinister affair.
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It so immensely gratifying for a writer when a perceptive reader gets exactly what has been written including the subtle undertexts.
Thanks a lot Lain for reading and appreciating. Have a great day.
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Oh my gosh! Sounds like he had a flashback to a nightmare! Great story, Neel!
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No wonder boat trips were nightmares. Well done.
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