Wednesday 1 May 2019

Catch me if you can

              #TellTaleThursday



 A situational prompt - You are at a fair and you get a note – “Catch me if you can!” 


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                                     Photo by Matt Bowden on Unsplash



My Kolhapuri chappals scurried with apprehensions. The crescendo of heartbeats 

resonated in my ears. Will I find what I am looking for? My palms were sweating and the 

crumpled note, “Catch me if you can? “, acted as an absorbent tissue.  Who stuffed the 

note in my palm? I do not remember. Maybe it was when I was alighting from the roller 

coaster. The village fair din added to my confusion. I asked the villagers for the direction 

of the banyan tree. This was the clue in the note.


I stood under the shade of the giant tree. I looked around. “Dig here”, a paper pinned on 

the bark of the tree sent my nerves racing.  A small mound of earth caught my attention. 

I genuflected and pushed aside the soil with my bare hands. I held it in between my 

thumb and index finger and brought it to the level of my eyes. I stared at it. A talisman. I 

looked around. The cacophony of the fair vanished. Silence reigned.


The buzz on my cell phone pierced into my sleeping ears. I snoozed it. Damn. I am late 

for duty. My fingers ran into my hair. I splashed water on my face pulling the curtain 

down on the hangover of a dream. Looking up into the mirror, I saw the talisman around 

my neck.

                      #TellTaleThursday with Anshu Priya

word count : 225

7 comments:

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  3. Oh wow.. Cleverly spun kalpana.. Liked the visual description... Worked like an absorbent tissue and the last one where she finds thr talisman hanging around her neck are quite good

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  4. Brilliantly weaved narration and heart pounding. The end is simply ecstatic Kalpana.

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  5. Loved he ending, Kalpana. that was done brilliantly.

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  6. Wow, that is indeed rather chilling. A really good story. It has been a long time since I wrote fiction of any kind. It is high time I picked up the threads where I left them.

    Here is one I wrote some time back.

    http://jaisjottings.com/2018/07/one-too-many/

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  7. This is so well written, Kalpana. I loved your word play here.

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