July Issue
For this month’s issue we have tried to unravel the various facets of the number Seven. We asked people what they can create with the number “seven” and this issue holds the answer.
The number seven has such colorful facts surrounding it that you cannot disregard it. The seven continents and the seven seas, the seven wonders of the world, the seven virtues and the seven deadly sins, the seven heavens and the seven fires in hell, why even the seven horcruxes of Lord Voldemort!
We hope you have fun unraveling this magical number as you flip through these pages.
Happy reading!
Seventh Hell
The district attorney argued an excellent case. She enthused emotion among the jurors.Her oratory skills were explemplary.She made up for all the lack of physical evidence with her captivating closing statement. One could see that the jury was with her. They swayed with her, they felt her passion for justice, justice for all the six victims. Victims of the brutal ,heinous crime the defendant was charged with.
“Ladies and Gentleman, I implore you, to go back to that jury box and deliberate. Deliberate based on all the facts and evidence we have provided and come back with a verdict that will provide if not anything closure to the family of the victims. Those six beautiful and innocent girls.”
The jury came back within minutes.
“What say you” asked the judge
“We the jury find the defendant guilty of all the six murders”. The rest of thier ruling was engulfed by the commotion in the room.
“Seven”.. there was an interruption
“Seven and not guilty” I told myself as I tiptoed from the room quietly.
By Nivethitha Kumar
The Not So Empty Boxes:
One by one, we moved each one of them. Carefully so as to not break or mishandle the contents of the boxes.
For as ordinary and dowdy they seem, they contained within them, a large chunk of our lives.
Like it or not, our whole lives can be packed in to boxes. With each packing and unpacking, comes reliving the moments, sipping nostalgia along with some tea, and telling, retelling stories. Tens of stories and many memories later, we had finished unpacking.
As I looked at the numerous empty boxes lying around, I couldn’t help but think, how they helped fill the entire house. They had transfered all thier wealth to the empty house, thus making it our home.
Empty boxes? I think not.
–Nivethitha Kumar
Masks
Countless meetings and calls later, Nina got back to her office to handle the daily vagaries of her ever important job. It wasn’t easy, handling the pressures of work and a family.
Minutes masqueraded as hours and hours as days.
She looked up to the picture at her desk and wondered how her heart still skipped a beat when she saw his smile.
The girl in her knew why.
-Nivethitha Kumar
Picture Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pagedooley/
