An ambitious writer , Bhumesh Agarwal ,got his dream job as a film writer. He was settling in his office when he got his first assignment ,which was to write a horror story and he agreed to it. So, he decided to to go to a village or some kind of urban place, so, he could add some real details to it by listening to some tales or incidents.He told his grandma that he got a new assignment and she told him about a village "Karkai",a place which was not known for it's high quality cotton anymore but it's ghost incidents; having no idea that he would actually go there.he took some necessary stuff he would be needing then he borrowed a car to travel there ,it wasn't easy to reach the village it was just full of bumpy roads, it was actually an advantage which would keep him up as the night fell but signs like 'KEEP AWAY' AND "DON'T GO ANY FURTHER IF YOU STILL WANT TO LIVE" kept him awake.After a long drive he reached the village, it was already late but as he entered the village he saw something very weird , everybody closed all the windows and doors at the sight of his car, he tried to ignore it. He stopped his car at the chawk, a small platform kind of stage just a few inches above the ground, a big banyan tree was planted there and a small seat under it. At first he thought that he would be welcomed to anybody's house as the villagers are very generous and that he would reach there earlier than he actually did . So there was no place to spend the night .Luckily, a postman was just passing by ..at this time?? this thought never occurred to Bhumesh's mind because he was just so happy and relieved to see someone."Excuse me " he called the postman and he turned around and Bhumesh asked if there was a place that he could use to spend the night, but the postman initially warned him to not to spend the night there but told Bhumesh that he used to live here but now left the village because of the happenings but lastly gave the keys to him(Bhumesh) and spend the night at his old house. Bhumesh thanked him and took his stuff from the car and headed to the house.As he opened the gate of the house crows flew out , this wasn't scary but the number of crows was, it was just too many.He entered the house he saw a black cat cat sitting on the terrace of the house he tried to shoo it away but it didn't move an inch instead it growled back at him, he gave it up and went inside a room with a bed.He took his laptop out and started writing what all happened to him yet and after a short period of time he slept.Around 2:30 A.M. he woke up because of the voices, he rushed towards the door what he saw was unpredictable.He saw THREE SHADOWS, two men and a women under that banyan tree as he saw the man's hand reached the woman's throat , he grabbed it pressed it hard as he could while the other one took a rope and tied it to the branch of the tree, Bhumesh started screaming so as to leave the woman, it was like nobody even heard him so Bhumesh ran inside to grab something to scare them away he found a vase (while he thought that all the ghost stuff they are talking about is just to cover up the crime here) he rushed outside as soon as he reached the gate the vase from his hand fell on the ground making a very loud sound breaking the silence. He stood their frozen he could feel the chills all over his body because when he came back from his room there was nobody outside NOBODY! he could not move because of the shock . However after a long time , he pulled himself together and turned back ,yet another shock; he saw the same 2 boys and that 1 woman standing on the terrace where the cat sat .It felt like the ground beneath him moved and he was scared to death, he couldn't help it but just stared back at them, slowly they started disappearing . He stood their still , no movement ,no noise just the cold wind hitting him.He obviously did not go back in that house nor that chawk . He just went to his car sat their locked all his windows and the doors just like the villagers. He was up all night,he did not move just looked around him every 1 minute. This is when he saw a small photograph with a garland around it he leaned near the window to look at it more clearly what he saw nearly killed him that night he saw the same postman and the pic informed that he died 20 years ago. After this he didn't take a second to leave that place, he didnt even take dare to take his clothes back ,he just left. After a long drive he reached a small shop and the sun was out so he felt safe to get out. Bhumesh told the shopkeeper the whole story and the shopkeeper told him what actually happened- 20 yrs ago 2 boys who were the landlords kids killed a girl who was the postman's daughter. After all this happened the postman drunk with anger he then killed both boys as a revenge but afterwards killed himself too.Bhumesh heard the story and left, swearing that he will never come back to this place and drove back to his hometown. Well, in the end Bhumesh did have a really good plot for his new story/script.
~NIDHI SONKHIA
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