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
http://rochellewisofffields.wordpress.com/2014/10/15/17-october-2014/
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18 comments:

  1. brudberg16 October 2014 at 01:14

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

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    1. i b arora16 October 2014 at 06:10

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

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  2. Unknown16 October 2014 at 08:19

    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. i b arora16 October 2014 at 09:56

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

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  3. Abhijit Ray16 October 2014 at 14:23

    Life is a dream.

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  4. Unknown16 October 2014 at 16:44

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

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    1. i b arora16 October 2014 at 19:31

      thanks Shweta; incidentally i was never able to watch inception

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  5. Siobhan16 October 2014 at 17:48

    I loved the blurred lines between dreams and reality

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    1. i b arora16 October 2014 at 19:32

      thanks Siobhan, i think i succeeded in my effort

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  6. margirene17 October 2014 at 07:16

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

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    1. i b arora17 October 2014 at 08:30

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

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  7. Rochelle Wisoff-Fields17 October 2014 at 15:58

    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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  8. Raj17 October 2014 at 17:35

    Loved the way you connected this to a dream

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    1. i b arora17 October 2014 at 17:38

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

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  9. Unknown22 October 2014 at 23:08

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

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