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The Question - A short story

  Her almond eyes were twinkling in the starlight on a cold barren land in New Jersey when a chair came in her way. Wiping her nose, she stood beside the chair sparkling colors and a small globe of Earth revolving on its seat. A voice trembling and changing exclaimed,” Welcome to the first round of ALC – Another Life Challenge. Yeah, that’s right. We’ll give you another life on this planet of your choice. But we need an answer to a question we ask and the answer will be calculated and analyzed. Accordingly, if it’s right you’ll get the reward. But if you lose you won’t get another life but satisfaction. So you ready to play?” It sounds appealing , she thought. She slowly walked away from the chair. She tried to jump and rolled her eyes here and there to check if it was a prank. “You can’t walk away.” The voice ended and a small area got covered with a transparent sheet. She tried to punch and cut the sheet but it burnt her hands.  The world raged into flames and only the cover...

The interest to read after I began writing

  I never liked reading novels or short stories, etc. Until… When I wrote the first few pages of a story, that happiness was so much that I couldn’t handle it. Why? Because I rarely read stories and had never tried to imagine the characters immersed in a story. The fantasy imagining power flowed inside me through a lot of video games. Story-based video games gave me the strength I had ever imagined. I thought of writing. My stories. Novels. Short stories. I loved the thought of becoming a writer. I gave it to my father for proofreading. He cheered on the pages and the writing. Then, I self-published that story after completing it. But still, it wasn’t one that would attract an audience. I believe people might have seen it as a distraction towards good books. While editing, the size of my story’s draft got mistakenly selected A-4 size. I resolved it when I created an e-Book version with a second paperback version of a smaller and appropriate size for published fiction stories. After...