23/11/2012
Developing Story
[ELLC team has decided to have short stories developed, from fragments given, directly by the writers. The Team is thankful to Mainul Hasan Chowghury, our reverent teacher, as he was the first to suggest us on the issue of story developing. So writers, start moving with your pen without inhibition to develop the following extract into a complete one, and send us your contribution. Provide us with a title of the story as well]
“Urmi could hardly concentrate. The touching breeze through the airy veranda made her awkward, physically and mentally. She has probably crossed the age of chasing her imagination towards moon, rain, stem of grass and the red-dragonfly on the flowering bushes. Is she going to be poet like his brother! Strange; she has never had any compassion for poetry. All the compassion and aspiration she saw was her brother’s. He could write mind blowing poetry. Urmi, with a sudden jerk, threw her sight at the edge of the yard lightened vaguely by the silky fire of the full moon. The fragrance of the rose bushes was floating intoxicatingly in the air. An unknown bird fluttered painstakingly on the peak of the eucalyptus tree, almost invisibly.
She turned the pages of the book by her brother titled “Reflection”, a volume of poetry. She kept turning the pages; pages of a poet. Urmi wiped her eyes, roved her squat fingers across the printed letters and she could smell the scent of her brother….”
