Two Special Horror Stories !
World's Shortest Horror Stories !
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When the last man on earth was sitting alone in his room......... His door was knocked............
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...she was feeling uneasy in her sleep,and got up to fetch a glass of water...she returned to find herself still sleeping on the bed......
I Swear........
"I Swear, I Won't Place My Books Down, Until I Become A 9-Pointer! "
It marks the beginning of a new semester.Every New semester is built on the laments over the previous semester results.It meant new resolutions, new courseware, new lecturers, a new chance to fare well in the courses. With the fresh smell of your heavy 5-subject notebook, you embark on yet-another-wrestle for a stupid-letter and a fancy-number on your grade sheet.
The First Month:
The first few days is supposed to be full of smiles. A month of idleness is ought to make the laziest go for work. It's the time when you start to miss the classroom, the board, the sweet-smell of the computer labs, the stipulated tea-breaks and the evening walk around the campus. The First few days is ought to lure you into the mirage that the whole semester is going to be a piece of cake..,Only Time will teach the lesson.The lecturers get to smile with you, laugh at your pranks in the classroom, forgive your mistakes at the lab, leave free hours because you asked for,...... all for a short time,Very SHORT time..
The Second Month:
Here comes the days, when the class tests are frequent, half the syllabus have been covered and you hardly listened to any of the lectures and made any notes either.Within a snap of your fingers, the internal exam time-table starts posing itself glamorously in the notice board. And the whole affair of exams goes into oblivion. All ways of scoring marks you have tried (you know what) ends up in vain. And a painful week of waiting for the results come and go past.And when the results come, The Whole Row Of Nerdy-First-Benchers bag the applause for being the top of the class (Once Again).. And you sit in the last bench, Staring at the fancy red marking on the paper which has just now reserved you a good repremanding from your parents,(and a 50% reduction on the pocket money) There goes the second month...
The Third Month:
Its when you get impatient with all those assignments, lecturers' rueful remarks, those unfinished experiments in the lab.... Its when you start missing the free hours. Those Greedy lecturers seem to be unsatisfied with their slots of periods and start taking a big bite (mercilessly) from your free hours. Its when they dont care whether the subject reached you or not., Its when they care whether the subject was finished in stipulated time or not. Its when the time-table for lab examz get announced and you've hardly completed any records. Sleepless nights goes into for the completion of all lab works yet the examiner carelessly tosses over your record into a careless bundle of other records. There's another funny thing called viva-voce where the examiner has the fun of asking you questions which you cant answer(and even shares his best moments with his fellow examiners!) They all have a great time when you sit there, sorry for yourself, cursing why you chose this institution. The third month ends with a scramble for Photo-copies of the 9-pointers' notes(Hmm.. They are upto some use in the class) and the much awaited study holidays.
The Fourth month:
All the last minute preparation mean one thing,growing a mango tree in a desert. Hard-earned-pocket-money spent on the photostat copies goes waste as nothing makes sense to you.You feel nothing can save you, so you close the text-books and go for movies instead. And at the last day of the study holidays you start to feel sorry for yourself and feel you should have studied. The dreaded day comes alive(much against your prayers) The tensed minutes before the exams, your FRIEND enlightens you that you've missed to study the most important part of the whole syllabus. The exam hall- resembles a butcher shop and you feel you're the only goat. You just take a peek at your fellow-exam-takers, just to notice that all are busy filling their answer sheets (and even going for additional sheets) and you're still struck with the first page with no content to fill. Fortunately you still remember what happened at your grand-father's 90th birthday and hurray it reaches 5 Additional sheets! You come out and laugh at those funny people who lament that they've missed a 1 mark question or so....
As like any bad time, the exams get over soon and you get your well-deserved(?!?!) vacation.
Epilogue:
One more six-point-something,even five-point-something for blessed souls (god save those who kept arrears, i've escaped!) As you have passed, the text books reach the second-sales store and you get a good sum of money for the new releases (The books are really worth it)
But somewhere in the corner of your heart, your conscience start to get you worried.. Worried that you've lost yet-another chance of improving your GPA...
It's when,
You Swear," I Won't Place My Books Down, Until I Become A 9-Pointer..............."
