By Swagata Maji
In one evening of the Winters,
tourists were travelling by
a city in the midst of whose
a library stood, very high.
A tourist went to library
as he had heard a lot
of decor, luxury and its books’
collection and what not!
While he was there in library,
a boy came up to him
from a corner of the library
which seemed to be quite dim.
The boy had brought a book with him
whose title was “THE BOOK”,
he handed it and left the place
ignoring tourist’s look.
That night the tourist opened it
and found it to be strange,
the only thing he saw in it
was a picture of a grange.
The house was dusty, old and cracked
with webs all over the gable,
some broken stairs it had in front
and attached to it was a stable.
A nameplate carved “Shootover Grange”
was hanging from its door,
the tourist now remembered he
had heard the name before.
He searched the internet and found
two newspaper articles
and both of them had the picture of
the boy with the incunable.
The first one said, “Young sorcerer,
Jacob Shootover manages
to get his house, Shootover Grange,
imprisoned in THE BOOK’s pages”.
The next one said, “An old businessman
murders Shootover family
for the sake of their house” and both incidents
had taken place twenty years early.
Suddenly THE BOOK’s pages then
started to turn rapidly,
from nowhere in the tourist’s room
did Jacob appear shortly.
He looked at the tourist angrily,
said “Pay for your father’s sin!”,
then the tourist was flown up in the air
and thrashed at the open tin bin.
On hearing the loud thud sounds in the room
the neighbours tried to forcefully enter,
astonished were they as the found the room
all messy and the resident disappeared.
A woman from the gathering picked up
“THE BOOK” that lay near her feet
and she could not know how its page depict
the tourist that her eyes did meet.
By Swagata Maji
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