Our Valley of Happiness

“You take a step forward, your father will be dead”

I was so scared.

“No, u won’t die Akino” “I am scared, Father”

Mrs. Katy ran after the cockroach. Her eyes were set on it; not even a single blink. Sneaking, creeping and more or less like a cockroach she followed it.

“You just have to obey whatever he says” “He. Who?”

I felt as if the Atlantic Ocean had no ends.

It was lunch time. Class was still noisy.

“Dr. Coyne, Look at her. She is dying”

Drops of water scattered from the hard-whittled-dark rocks.

“And I stared at the sky where the stars stood laughing, Swelling their glow, to the deeper side of my mind”

I frowned. The assignment was tough.

He coughed again. It was dawn.

Varun was busy in his biotechnology lab.