"X" - A Narrative by Aishwarya Lakkakula, BA, III Year 

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                                  I woke up from my dream of a night long canoodle and smiled a second, at my dark circles in the mirror. I needed some D vitamin and I knew it was a brass monkey morning.

                                  I walked to open the door; I was hot and the handle couldn't bear my static charges. I stepped out of the door and you know I smiled. I smelled you and felt you.

                                  Now I ran to open the door. I canoodled our mispronounced off-shoulder rag and you smelled the same from past, 'x to x'.

                                  I slept - smelling you, it was not morning. I woke up from my dream to sleep again.

                                                                                                    ~ Aishwarya Lakkakula (BA)