ChirpyQuill

 For Sale: Baby Shoes, Never Worn This is a famous 6-word story created by the great Ernest Hemingway. It was written while Hemingway was out at a restaurant with a group of friends. He bet them ten dollars that he could create a story in only six words, and then wrote this sentence on a napkin. A Six-Word Story should provide a movement of conflict, action, and resolution that gives the sense of a complete story transpiring in a moment's reading. Here are some attempts from CP authors: “You were never the one but I loved you anyways”  Neeti Narang “And then we fell in love” Ramanpreet “She trusted him, the safe was empty” Archana “The divorce lawyer charged her less”  Atul Singh “Only hospital smell survived grandma’s battle” Atul Singh “ She drowned, the storm inside finally quietened.” Durga V. 

मेहो के गर्जन मेँ तुम हो,  गीतों के सर्जन मेँ  तुम ही,  हो तुम ही संसार,और तुम्ही हो, हर माँ के दिल का प्यार !! पुष्प तुम हो, सौरभ भी तुम ही,  हो तुम्ही मकरंद,  भक्ति रस पूरित ह्रदय के,  हो तुम्ही आनंद | राग तुम हो, रंग तुम हो,  हो तुम्ही सब जंग,  संघर्षपूर्ण जीवन के तुम ही,  हो विजय-प्रसंग |                       संतोषानंद

  Hold me forever The soothing cool of the feet touching the morning dew, The sensuality of a winter sunset bathing the earth with orange hue, The moment froze as I felt alive and let the feelings go through,   Like gentle waves touching the sea shore, my heart felt the calm, The healing touch of the hands, so compassionate, so warm, The stillness in the embrace like the night washed with moon light, I desperately hoped that time should stop, it just might,   On the wings of love, mind flew like a free bird in the open skies, Feeling that defied gravity and I let myself float in those deep eyes, Heart, so full, was adrift like waters in the river flow, Felt the quietness of the silent cedars in the falling snow,   Hold me forever, let me just stay, I desperately prayed, As I held her in my arms and I gently swayed!

It had been in the making for quite sometime, actually multiple years. We applied for entry with charity, got into the race in 2020, but then Covid hit. So for the last two years the race kept getting postponed. The stars finally aligned this year and the race is on and we are on our way there. At this moment, on March 1st, 2023, at about 7 pm Eastern time, I am writing this on my new MacAir, in the plane, half way to Tokyo, to the enigmatic mysterious island of Japan. All I know of the place is that Japanese are amongst the most polite people I have ever met. I also have some patchwork of information bits such as, the US nuclear bombed this country during tenuous WW2 conflict and that this is an aging, hardworking society of very proud citizens, that have held on to their culture and traditions even against the onslaught of mad relentless westernization the world has seen over the last couple of hundred years, colonization and all. I also know some about their bloody history of of war...