Right block

Looks like I’ve been infected with writer’s block this week. Over the past four or five days, I have been avoiding the computer as though it was some kind of virus. All because I’ve been drawing a blank whenever I would think of Short Take. There just didn’t seem to be anything to write about.

You might exclaim, “Hey, the world is so full of stories!” But that exactly has been the problem with me this week.

I have been confined to my house because of the mounting heat and that has kept me away from humanity and the world around from where we writers draw our stories.

But there must be something from memory that I could pull off, I mused. And so finally I tried to face the inevitable and sat myself in front of the computer.

I have been here for almost four hours now, ransacking my brain for some interesting memory from any remote corner of my brain.

The more I searched the more blank I became.

So much so that I am now totally drained out, my energy levels debilitated because of the heat and all that thinking.

Looks like my brain has temporarily shut down. Maybe it needs a holiday just as I do too.
Vidya Shankar

Published in The Gulf Today / Short Take, dt Apr 14, 2018)
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