Wednesday 15 October 2014

Dream



It was the usual dream- he trying helplessly to reach somewhere but not reaching anywhere. He woke up with a start – he was anxious, uncertain and nervous. He peered at the clock; he could not find the numbers; they had fallen like dead leaves.

Am I still dreaming?

He took a few sips of cold water and looked at all the odd things lying on the table. He again looked at the clock. Numbers were lying cluttered at the bottom. He shook it and heard a sigh.

It’s a dream.

And he went back to sleep
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Word count 97
Written for Friday Fictioneers on a photo prompt hosted by Rochelle Wisoff

18 comments:

  1. Ah.. sometimes it's not clear what is dream or what's reality..

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    1. more often than not that's the way life is. thanx for reading it

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  2. Interesting take on the prompt! Those types of clocks always confuse me, too.

    You're ahead of me on this one. I probably won't get around to writing my story until Friday.

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    1. thanks Emilie for liking it. i would be waiting for your story

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  3. Very thoughtful on the prompt :) I got an inception feeling Aroraji.

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    1. thanks Shweta; incidentally i was never able to watch inception

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  4. I loved the blurred lines between dreams and reality

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    1. thanks Siobhan, i think i succeeded in my effort

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  5. Is it a dream or not? I like the ambiguity here - that sigh. Well told.
    Marg

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    1. thanks Marg for reading the post, i am also beginning to like this post

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  6. Dear I.B.

    Dreams can be so real sometimes that even later, in waking hours, I wonder if something really happened or if I merely dreamt it. Well conveyed in your story.

    Shalom,

    Rochelle

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  7. Loved the way you connected this to a dream

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    1. thanks for visiting my blog and leaving a comment. this time all the comments are very encouraging

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  8. Dreams are as strange as that, but sometimes life's even stranger. Nice write!

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