Dodging his pursuers he reached the scene of his first crime. He remembered with a smirk the teenager. Raped and murdered.
Suddenly, he sensed someone nearby.
Shocked, he saw her, standing there, arms outstretched, on fire. Terrified, he screamed!
“Burn in hell” her mother hissed, opening her teary eyes, ending the nightmare.
But the trauma????
This 55 fiction format story is written by Mani Padma.
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Good One!
It’s okay…no the Mani way !!
I know. When the writer isn’t sure him/herself it shows. Isn’t it? Even Rajan had doubts but when I mailed him my explanation he seemed convinced, So I am adding ad verbatim what I mailed
“Initially I wanted to trty something new. like in horror genre- Hence killed of the man by the ghost of the victim but found it corny. So I changed it to him being killed by the sister of the victim where I came up with that line Burn in hell…. U see I was trying to project the trauma of the crime. Then again I thought that it might create a controversy and i nmay be accused of inciting violence. I mean, its a heinous crime and I personally would want him dead but we are not a barbaric nation either, so discarded that ending too . So I projected the whole thing as a fantasy of a mother who has to leave with its memory and purge her tormented soul with a dream , a fantasy. But even though her hatered is purged ( a la the movie Tezaab), her trauma- wil it go ? well thats the theme. I know its quite meta physical”