Holograms featuring fauna and flora that once thrived on Earth enveloped her in their dim glow, and the projection of a snow leopard immediately caught her eye. Its icy gray eyes stared out of the shaggy, dirt-streaked fur. The background was muddy brown, with a few distant slivers of white. The bot droned on, but Anemone was frozen in her chair.
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0 – 1
If I had been more attentive to weather forecast, I would have brought my sun umbrella.
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I
Poet Tagore said, “The moon has her light all over the sky, her dark spots to herself.” Wasn’t it true, for both of us?
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Fallen leaves crunched under a blue stroller. In it rested a one-year-old child. Sunlight seeped through the gaps in the canopy of leaves.
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6:00
She had had weak health since childhood, so she seldom went out of her little room in which she spent most of her life in.
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Prologue
In Tokyo, he drank hot Matcha for the first time.
It was nearly December, and she was already planning for Christmas.
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I was taking a walk in the park when I saw him. I had run out of ideas of what to write for my upcoming poem due in 2 days for a submission to the New Yorker magazine,
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You and I are in a sterile white room, empty except the two of us. The ceiling is tall, and the room is wide.
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There is a grey room with grey walls and grey curtains. Mint green, but grey all the same. Grey with excessive sweat, grime, and taints from all over.
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The same rust that smothered the land, that stretched beyond the horizon devouring the earth around it like a starved jackal, was now cradling life in the palm of its hand.
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The dimly lit room created a somewhat melancholic atmosphere; somehow perfect for the man attempting to express his inner emotions through yet another letter he knew would be thrown away.
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Starting off was the hardest. It appeared, that time was a ration ticket – you could spend it however you liked, yet anyone else who so much as touched it would be regarded with disdain
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A dog snarled at another dog. There was enough meat for each, but the larger kept snapping at the smaller.
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