The First Day of an Intern (During the Pandemic)
The intern walks into the office, and sanitizes his hands every five feet or so with the wall mounted sanitizers once inside. Then he is escorted by an employee (not from HR, who are working from home) to the IT room where he is supposed to receive his company-issued laptop. Then he waits till the tech guys in the IT room installs the required software and adds his details to the (whatever) directory the company is using.
The Strange Spider Web
The boys were walking along a trail in the woods when suddenly a giant spider web came into their view. An equally large spider was at the middle of the web, waiting to catch a prey to fulfill its hunger. The boys were very much tired by the three mile walk, and they were thirsty too. The sound of water gushing in the stream in front of them made them want to walk straight through the spider web.
Thoughts at Sunset
The paddy field stretches a few kilometers to south-east. Several palm trees stand still in the same direction but not as far as where the field ends; a coconut field lies next to it. I look to my right and I see a baby-faced boy, sitting on the same stone wall as I am–I smile at his already smiling face. The boy is a brother of mine. The son of a younger brother of my father.
The Dictionary Attack
The intern typed [about:downloads] into the address bar because he didn’t know any other way to open the downloads page inside a tab in Firefox. He did not want to view the downloads list in a new window, which was how Firefox showed them by default. This was because he had quite a selective nature to his personality when working in the digital realm, and some of those habits even penetrated into his life [away-from-keyboard].
The Boy and His Cricket Dream
The boy loved to play cricket. Beginning from the first day he held a cricket bat, his love for the game only grew deeper. So, when selection sessions were scheduled for under-13 cricket team at school, it was natural that he badly wanted to make the cut. He started to have dreams of the big day. He practiced bowling every evening he came home from school. Little did he know that cricket had also become much needed medicine for his young soul tormented by the endless grind of coursework.