Filed under: Stories... — chapters @ 12:17 PM
“Did you see that?”
“What???”
“That man waved at me… and smiled…”
“Which man??? Hey wait… have you gone mad?”
“But I saw him looking at me before he started waving… I swear.”
“That’s just not possible… May be he waved at somebody behind you.”
“Yeah… you are right… I am gone out of mind; Let’s get out of this place… Crowded places make me nervous.”
“Okay… Let’s go.”
And they strolled past the man who ,she thought, waved at her… now busy reading a book. She shook her head and moved away.
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When both of them finally moved out of the room, he looked up, closed the book he was pretending to read and smiled. He could not restrain himself from waving at a such a beauty. Since he had had the ability to see them, he had only seen dreadful ones. Her startled expression, seeing him waving at her, was funny… Did she got frightened!!! After all they are not used to getting a wave from a human.
“I must not frighten beautiful girls… err… beautiful ghosts again…“, he chuckled.
Filed under: Behind the screen..., Funny!!!, Very strange!!, uuphh yeh life!!! — chapters @ 12:04 PM
You know, it feels wonderful and lovely when a complete stranger in a crowded train recognises you by just your name and praises you for something you had done 2 years back… 
Yes, it happened with me.
Last Friday, after office, I was at the Howrah station to board a train to Bhubaneswar, my home-town. At about 10.30 PM, the train came to the platform. All the people boarded the train and so did I. After I located my bearth, I sat there waiting for the train to start the journey.
There was another girl sitting in front of me. Due to some reason, the conversation started. Lets call her, Girl I Met On The Train (GIMOTT).
GIMOTT : Which company are you in?
Me : XYZ.
GIMOTT : Ohh… I am also in the same company. [Smiles]
Me : Oh… That’s good! [Smiling back]
GIMOTT : What’s your name?
Me : Sxxxxxx…
GIMOTT : Sxxxxxx what?
Me : Sxxxxxx Sxxxx. [Successfully omitted my middle name which I really hate]
GIMOTT : Sxxxxxx Sxxxxxx Sxxxx ??? [Successfully re-added my middle name which I seriously hate]
Me : How do you know my full name??? [Totally Surprised... ]
GIMOTT : You contributed some story in our company’s creative writing competition?
Me : Yes… but that was long time ago… around 2 years back.
GIMOTT : You won’t believe… I was very eager to meet you. That story was awesome and after reading that I tried to find you out, but never could.
Me : [Now beaming and smiling from ear to ear] Oh really… Thank you
She was talking about my first story Forgiven, which got a runners up award in my company’s creative wrtiting competition. I was really pleased, that someone, a total stranger, could recognize me for some story I had written a long time back. At that moment I thought about updating my blog, continue writing. Who knows, some other day, in some other train, I would meet some other stranger who also would know my middle name!!! 
