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First excerpt from "Colors of Skin"- a novella. Brainchild of my moments with melancholy, nostalgia, solitude and enlightenment. Wish me luck.
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"....had wiped out all the moist of his eyes that the dates on the calendar over the wall of his room appeared blurred to him. He decided to take a bath instead.
While bathing the thought of masturbation again played in his mind, but he let go the temptation. He didn't use any soap but stood still under the showers. The drizzling drops of water took some of his body heat. He saw himself in the mirror. His eyes were red and puff and he observed that his skin has lost all its radiance. At twenty-nine he could see the creases on his forehead and could notice bare scalp above both sides of his temples. He couldn't take that sight anymore and was appalled to see his self this way. He decided to go out, exploring the roads of the city. He was always of the belief that long walks gave him the required time for making important decisions, deciding on priorities and above all, coming out of dispirited mentation.
He searched for the least crumpled shirt in his closet, stood perplexed for a moment, analysed his options & conjectured that the gray one was the best pick along with a faded jeans. It took him a hundred odd steps and soon he was on the city road that unified one end of the city to the other. He started walking along the pavement, observing vehicles coming from opposite direction. He stopped at a nearby shop to buy a pack of cigarette, lit up one and continued moving. Fags really didn't give him any highs, neither did they accelerate the flow of the red life in his arteries, he thought, but gave him a feeling that he indeed was at a serious task. Task, he was yet to figure out.
"I'll be dead by tomorrow" he suddenly said to himself. ...."
©Rakesh 2011
©Rakesh 2011
