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STBhagyalakshmi
Former Scientist at ISRO, rtd.Associate professor. Writer in 4 langs.Gave VO of only2lines in short film maargam-Telugu.Still many achiev..
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Challenge of the Month XII
The Finale. You’re living on the streets and want it to end. Write about your last moments, why you’re over it, and how you’re about to go out. Fiction or non-fiction, poetry or Prose. $100 purse to our favorite entry. Outstanding entries will be shared with our publishing partners.
STBhagyalakshmi
• 129 reads

Blessed

A star was lifting me up.

I was seeing a new world.

God was looking at me.

He was also helping the star.

One group doing social work,

is lifting me and giving shelter

to me at a monastery.

I am feeling blessed.

Future looked like hundred

moons going around me.

All moons were giving light.

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Challenge of the Week CLXX
Control Freak. Fiction or non-fiction, poetry or Prose.
STBhagyalakshmi
• 85 reads

Freak can be controlled

One cousin of mine had come to house. She asked me to grind cardmom and put it in small amount of water and give. I asked,

“What for you are using this?”

“For sleep”

Afterwards I saw that instead of cardmom I had crushed pumpkin seeds’ inner portion material and had given to her. The seeds from which the husk had been removed had some what same colour as cardmom. I told her the same thing. Next day she told that her silly thoughts were controlled. Next day also again she took pumpkin seeds’ inner portion crushed, put in water. She told that silly thoughts are controlled. Without my knowledge I had found a medicine to her disease.

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Challenge of the Week CLXVIII
In Sickness and in Health. Fiction or non-fiction, poetry or Prose.
STBhagyalakshmi
• 55 reads

I had my chance

I had to work daily in office. I had no chance of writing poetry or literature in office.

I fell ill and the disease was diagnosed to be “Denghi”

I was put in ICU and I had to be on the bed without getting down from bed for 10 days.

I was feeling bored and I asked doctor,”Give me pen and paper. I would write quatrains for small children.”

Other doctor also heard and all others started laughing.

“You can take rest. After the disease is cured you can write whatever you want”

“After disease is cured, I have to go to office. There I can’t write. These 10 days chance I have got. God has given me this.”

“So you wish that diseases should attack you, so that you can keep away from office?”

Everybody laughed.

“Anyhow disease has come and I am utilizing chance, that is all. It doesn’t mean that I love diseases.”

Everybody laughed.

They gave pen and paper and I wrote up to the contentment for 10 days. Then I was kept in general ward for 5 days and I had my chance again for 5 more days.

I applied those to poem competitions and got a prizes#

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Challenge of the Week CLXVII
Pandemic. Write about an outbreak, a disease, a pandemic. Fiction or non-fiction, poetry or Prose.
Cover image for post Yam lok, by STBhagyalakshmi
STBhagyalakshmi
• 90 reads

Yam lok

There arose an epidemic.The whole village was wiped off. Only few people survived. Raghu aged 48 & Reema aged 52 died. After some time they got up.Those who had survived asked,

“How is it that you became alive”

We went to other universe and there we were told,

“The other Raghu aged 16 and Reema aged 17 we wanted and not you people. You go back. You have still life span. That’s why we came back”

Immediately Raghu aged 16 and Reema aged 17 in the village expired of heart attack.

Afterwards Raghu aged 48 & Reema aged 52 lived up to the ages of 70. And as long as they lived they were telling people that they have seen ”Yam lok” means hell in our mythology ie indian mythology.

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Challenge of the Week CLXVI
Stupid. What is it to be stupid? What a stupid question. Is stupid even logically coherent? Write about stupidity, or about something stupid; but don't write something stupid. Fiction or non-fiction, poetry or Prose.
STBhagyalakshmi
• 77 reads

Paid for utter stupidity

One group of thirty families was there. They used to have get-together once in a month. One month it used to be in one house and next month it used to be in another one’s house. Like that it was going in circular fashion. Once it was in Surekha’s house. She told,

“By the side, my sister-in-law’s house is there. Some days ago it caught fire and all the family members died except one boy.”

Aish: When all his family members have died, alone what he will do? You set him also afire. You only will get that side land also.

Syma was looking at Aish with awe. Aish didn’t extend eye contact and was cool and calm as if she hasn’t told any serious words at all. Still, 4 or five ladies were standing around and nobody talked anything. Surekha also didn’t talk anything. Everybody kept quiet.

After one year or so Aish’s son died in an accident. Syma got a flashback of what Aish told earlier. Syma felt that there is some supernatural power. Aish had to pay for stupid sentence she gave out in public. Whatever she told, the same thing happened to her only. She lost her son only.#

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Challenge of the Week CLXV
The Trial. A courtroom trial, a trial of strength, a trial of character... write about some variety of trial. Fiction or non-fiction, poetry or Prose.
STBhagyalakshmi
• 78 reads

Reverse arrow

In the court one man was standing in witness box.

Lawyer: What’s your name?

Man kept his finger on mouth.

Lawyer: Why? You don’t know speaking? Are you acting?

Man: I don’t know acting. I am the follower of three dolls of Gandhiji.

Man kept his finger on mouth.

Lawyer: Why? Here you should speak.

Man: I won’t talk. Because, “Talk is silver & silence is gold”

Man kept his finger on mouth.

Lawyer: If you don’t talk I’ll get you imprisoned.

The man didn’t open his mouth.

Lawyer: Eh…. This is court. What do you think?

Man: Mew…., mew….. mew……

Lawyer: Are you mewing like a cat?

Man: Mew…., mew….. mew……

Lawyer: Who is there? Beat him with the stick nicely.

Judge: It seems that he doesn’t have mental balance. Send him off. Otherwise he’ll waste our time.

Lawyer: What a mischievous party, I have come across!

Now he opened his mouth.

Man: Wav……., Wav……., Wav…….

He ran out. He was standing outside. After some time the lawyer came out.

Lawyer: Pay my fees.

Man: Amba……, Amba……, Amba……

Lawyer: Have you gone ahead of teacher? Are you giving reverse hymn to the tutor only? If I give place to put your hand in the house, are you putting whole body in the house? Are you the rat which engulfed cat, worm which swallowed the frog, frog which swallowed the snake, snake which swallowed the vulture, goat which engulfed the Python, baby fish which engulfed blue whale, man who engulfed octopus, deer who killed tiger, two headed snake, sheep which made man to fall? Hand for hand like Hammurabi code? Are you Shahajahan who killed father himself? Are you Akhilesh Yadav who defeated father only? Scorpion gave birth to scorpion to get killed, it seems. Are you fooling lawyer himself?

Man: For your hymns the mango will fall. Go and catch it, oh lord.

Lawyer: Now will you pay or not?

Man: Wow….., Wow……., Wow……., Wow…….,Wov Wov Wov, Wow……., Wow……

Lawyer: Dog is beaten with the stick. Do you know?

Man: Who brought dog to witness box of court?

Lawyer: Eh…, Eh…. pay off my fee.

Man: Mew…., mew….. mew……

Lawyer: No.., No…. don’t cheat me. I’ll beat you.

Man: Kaw…, Kaw…., Kaw….

Lawyer: Means you have cheated me, know?

Man: No, the bird is carrying with beak. See there. It is flying. It snatched from my hands. What shall I do? Go chasing it. You may get your money.

Lawyer: Don’t cheat me. When you come next time, I’ll not help you.

Man: Next time? Who will come Next time? To such places again one should not come it seems, oh great preacher. You taught me. Now you hear to my preaching.

Lawyer: You are making fun of me? Are you the one who have gone ahead of god?

Man: No oh lord. I am not god also and not lawyer also as you. I have studied only 10th class. (ironically)

Lawyer: Then how dare you talk to a lawyer?

Man: In LLB will anybody teach you such tricks and all? No know? But look at me, how I am talking.

Lawyer: Give my money, donkey.

The man screamed like a donkey.

Lawyer: I’ll make you omit the double amount. I know how to handle such people.

Man (making fingers like a tiger): Gur, Gur…, Gur….

The lawyer himself had to run out of fear.

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Challenge of the Week CXLIV
Sexy. Just write something sexy. Fiction or non-fiction, poetry or Prose.
STBhagyalakshmi
• 254 reads

Sex

If the sex wouldn't have been there at all,

the world won't move forwards.

But if the same thing flies beyond limit,

there is no avoidance of catastrophy

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Challenge of the Week CXLIII
The Trajectory. Is the trajectory of humanity a good one? Is the world getting better or worse? Is life improving or deteriorating? Fiction or non-fiction, poetry or Prose.
Cover image for post Man is from monkey only know?, by STBhagyalakshmi
STBhagyalakshmi
• 124 reads

Man is from monkey only know?

Intelligence took the woman from thumb impression to signature.

Science is taking the woman from sign back to thumb impression.

Man is cutting the trunk of the tree on which he is sitting. One monkey dragged another monkey and fell into well it seems. Like that the countries or human beings fight among themselves and will disappear from the earth. Man fought the first world war and was foolish enough to fight the second one. The same foolishness may make him fight the third one. Man like that monkey takes all animals also and will disappear from this world.

Where will it go, the monkey’s character? Man won’t leave his ancestors characters.

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Challenge
Challenge of the Month XI: December
The Unknown. Perhaps it's our purpose, or an obscure branch of theoretical physics. Maybe it's the existence of a supreme being, or the origin of life. Or maybe it's something more personal. Write about something unknown. Fiction or non-fiction, poetry or Prose. $100 purse to our favorite entry. Outstanding entries will be shared with our publishing partners.
Cover image for post Supreme being will hear, by STBhagyalakshmi
STBhagyalakshmi
• 74 reads

Supreme being will hear

One group of thirty families was there. They used to have get-together once in a month. One month it used to be in one house and next month it used to be in another one’s house. Like that it was going in circular fashion. Once it was in Surekha’s house. She told,

“By the side, my sister-in-law’s house is there. Some days ago it caught fire and all the family members died except one boy.”

Aish: When all his family members have died, alone what he will do? You set him also afire. You only will get that side land also.

Syma was looking at Aish with awe. Aish didn’t extend eye contact and was cool and calm as if she hasn’t told any serious words at all. Still, 4 or five ladies were standing around and nobody talked anything. Surekha also didn’t talk anything. Everybody kept quiet.

After one year or so Aish’s son died in an accident. Syma got a flashback of what Aish told earlier. Syma felt that there is some supernatural power.

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Challenge of the Week CXLII
Gratitude. What are you (or your character) thankful for? Write about gratitude. Fiction or non-fiction, poetry or Prose.
STBhagyalakshmi
• 107 reads

Faithfulness

Some people who help others,

expect only in return the gratitude.

If they don't get that also,

he or she may get depressed,

They keep blaming destiny, if

continuously such things happen.

Most valuable gem is gratitude,

which everybody should be

aware of always in the world.

If human beings don't know

about this, one should see a dog.

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