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Hall

In this vast hall, that seemed to exist endlessly, there was hope diffused among the equally spaced out desks. Whether this hope is misguided or not, undeserving or not, I’ll never know nor will I ever want to know. This is maybe because I am limited to me own desk and till now the desk limited to me. I hold only but one seat. Yes only one seat, my uncomfortable seat, population: one. Like every town has their own sounds, smells and stink, so does each desk. Ten desks to my right sits a girl balancing her pen on her lips. When it falls spinning it thrice and then repeating the same. I wonder why her feet tap so rapidly. I wonder about her sweat that glistens under the fluorescent light and which is quickly evaporated by the fast fan over her head. I wonder what’s going on 2 desks to my left, where a striking girl I knew in a recently previous past sits. Some of them say and I thought that people with a pretty face have life easy and yet she with her thin mesmerising eyes was perhap...

Rainbow Skin

The black door in the corner of the room opens with a creak. A girl walks in. The girl, 16-18 years old, has long curly hair and is dressed in all white. The girl looks around the room confused about where she is. The door blends into the wall leaving no trace of it. She looks behind her and touches the wall where the door once was. The room is also all white and glows. The girl examines the room trying to figure out where she is. She knocks the wall with her fist. She presses her ear to the floor. She goes to the other side of the room, to check if something was there. Finds nothing. She goes back to the wall where the door was and examines it again. Her efforts were wasted. She knew nothing about what this room was. * She is examining another wall, her ears catch a buzzing sound. She looks around to see where the sound is coming from. She is surprised when something starts emerging from the floor right in the center of the room. What had emerged was a mirror. Its frame was made...