Saturday, 7 May 2011

The kid steps into the living room.

The kid steps into the living room. His gaze scans the wall to his right. A reflex action. He sees the familiar armchair and the chest of drawers where the old radio lays. After lunch his grandma always sits on that armchair to listen to the daily radio soap opera. Her head rests on the wall and in that position she falls asleep. Every time the kid enters the living room his eyes look at the spot on the wall where his grandma's head rests as she listens to the radio. The kid no longer remembers when he reached adulthood. His gaze keeps on scanning that spot on the wall whenever he steps into that old living room. That reflex action keeps a dim memory alive. His eyes find the ghost of his long gone grandma shaped in the form of a circular black stain her head imprinted on the wall as she listened daily to the radio dozing by the chest of drawers on her favourite armchair.

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