Monday, January 23, 2006

The Story has just begun folks ... !!

Tamanna was just past her twenty fifth birthday, short of stature with what she self deprecatingly called a well-rounded figure. She had medium cropped beatific BLACK hair and dark-brown eyes. When not working at her research position at a COGNIZANT technologies , she was usually to be found out on her tiny sailboat or bent over a computer keyboard creating either the poetry or short stories that her abundant imagination thrived on. Now she had the best of both pursuits as she'd recently purchased a new laptop that allowed her to enjoy both leisure's at once. When the kettle had boiled, Tamanna made a large mug of steaming hot coffee and taking the laptop with her, went back on deck. She made herself a comfortable workspace on the foredeck with her back leaning against a sail bag which in turn was propped against the mast. Before starting, she relaxed with the tea and surveyed her temporary neighbourhood. The beaches were quite narrow strands, mere ribbons of sand between the water and the forest. There were a couple of other rock spurs which jutted into the channel but the one she was to the lee of seemed to be the largest and the only one which gave sufficient shelter to provide the one-craft size anchorage in which she lay. At first glance, the hillsides looked totally devoid of settlement. But when she looked more closely, she spotted at least four widely separated structures perched on the slopes and almost hidden by the forest cover. One such structure, obviously a private home, albeit a large one, was nearly directly above her. She smiled inwardly thinking how often she had purchased a lottery ticket in hopes of realizing a dream home on the sea just like this one. Coffee finished, Tamanna turned to her laptop and let her imagination take flight.

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home