Mirage

(Another picture and another story with less than 100 words)

                                                                                                (pic taken from the net)

*Tring, Tring*
“Hello”
No voice from the other side. He knew it was not a connection problem. It was her. She wasn’t speaking but it was her.
His heart started beating fast. He waited to hear that voice which he missed for a long time now.
The phone disconnected.

Had not talked to her after she left him and had changed her number. Just to make sure it was her, he went to a public payphone to call the number who just dialled him.

“Tring Tring”
The payphone next to him rang

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Happiness

A friend of mine asked me to write a story within 100 words  based on the picture he had taken and this is what I wrote :)

“Honey, shall I buy this happiness?”, She asked excitedly.

He smiled, “It’s not happiness. And even if it is, it’s momentary.”

“I don’t mind”, she nagged

“You don’t mind now, but later, that pinch of sadness will burst all the happiness out of it.”, he replied.

She got curious. “Sadness, what type of sadness?”

He replied, “Sadness, the fact that we lost our only child four months ago .The one you are buying that for” and left.

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