Adventures of Zzz

Sheila screamed " Khoon, khoon " * as she came down to the ground-floor of her employer's house. Her employer Jitendra casually peered from the first floor balcony and called the police. The dead guy was Sukanto Dey, the previous owner of the property. The police brought all the characters in for questioning. The help, Sheila's alibi sounded sketchy. Moreover, as anyone who has read enough detective novels knows that it's always the help. They detained Sheila and tortured a confession out of her. She was sentenced a hard life in jail. Sukanto Dey was a tourist in Changi. The government of Changi in an effort to boost economy of the small country had quotas for tourists where they could buy prime land and property in Changi at very low prices. Real Estate tourism was very popular. The unsuspecting Sukanto however, was not here to buy land. He was an ornithologist, there to study a migrant species of crows. In his spare time, he walked about ...

There was a black sparrow perched atop a building a couple of miles away. It looked as big as my palm. No, the black sparrow was not a giant one. It seemed no matter from how far you look at it, it would always appear the size of one's palm. Clearly, the black sparrow was a being capable of traversing in many dimensions and the known laws of time and space didn't apply to it. I watched from afar as the  black sparrow flew down to attack or perhaps try to eat the alley cat near my house. The cat crouched in fear as the  black sparrow now turned into a menacing and even bigger black turkey. Now, I could only see the flagrant behind of the  black turkey but after sometime when the black turkey turned, the cat was gone. As the black turkey turned, it saw me witness the ghastly event and started to give chase. I ran and ran, as I have never been able to do in real life, but how do you outrun a creature of multiple dimensions? Just as I was beginning to lose the ...