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A Melancholic Wintry Happiness

Chilly melancholic emotions fill the air, As this wintry season came in like a fellow. Frosting my heart of hope in total despair! Grasses on the lawns are now grey and yellow. The cloudless sky above me is Royal Blue and clear And the stream serenely flowed down below… “Splash!” a stone fell from high above into the stream, And my moment of wintry happiness disappeared like a dream.

The Sin

  “Give way! Give way!” shouted the driver as a patient on the stretcher was pulled from the ambulance by few sturdy men, and was rushed to the Emergency Unit at the Mongar Referral Hospital. Everyone in the hospital watched with open mouth as they saw the patient in a horrible state. They saw her eyes and body twitch in uncontrollable convulsion as if possessed like the village shamans. She was in dead pain and foams dripped from the corner of her dark purple lips. Nobody moved a muscle. The hospital unusually became silent for a moment except the screeching of the roller of the stretcher being pushed over the cemented floor inside the EU. After few agonizing hours, the Doctor came outside the EU and told those sturdy men that the patient was put out of danger. The men were glad to hear the news, but were taken aback as they were told that their patient was pregnant. “She is 5 months 3 weeks pregnant,” declared the Doctor. “Pregnant?” the men raised their brows and lo