Written for
Weekend Writing Prompt #31 – Nostalgia
MEMORIES
By Neel Anil Panicker
“Stupid Gloria! Always leaving tasks undone, these good for nothing maids. I should have fired her long ago”.
Daniel was in a bad mood as he gently offloaded himself from the high chair, ducking his head gently from under the attic hold, his regular hand clutching a dust-laden leather file, its moth eaten edges half consumed by the other virulent non-resident creatures of the near decrepit sprawling bungalow__the omnipresent black rats.
Plonking himself onto the bed, he opened the file and rummaged through its contents__
the property files.
Good riddance. He would sell it, the bungalow, the farmhouse…every single thing.
It was then that he spotted it__an old yellowed sepia tinged black and white photograph. Clutching the image with his arthritic struck hands, he peered at it from behind thick glasses.
The ruins of an old fort…Golconda…Hyderabad…India and Preeti, his beloved.
The eyes turned moist as an avalanche of once stilled memories swept him away.
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