A Simple Wish by Anton Piskac

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Workshop # 4
A Simple Wish

The rains came again. Again, the sky was dark and ominous.

"Wonder what's going to happen this time?!"

"You already know."

"No, no, I don't think so. Look! Its ominous. Its hinting at change."

They stood in the middle of a well manicured garden. Flowers were bent over from the weight of the rain. Everything seemed to be the same as before. They looked synchronously toward the female statue in the middle of the fountain.

She turned....

"Make all of this stop!" came in a whisper that creeped from her mouth to their minds.

"Wait! I get it! This is my dream, so all of this is up to me in some way or another. So, I'm doing this (pointing up to the sky and then all around.) This is just a perception of my situations."

The realization brought about concentration and determination.

"Hey, where are you?! Don't leave me here alone! Come on, don't get any ideas."

"Now its all clearing up. I understand your role in this dream, in my life, in my mind."

"What?! What are you talking about?"

The skies began to clear up. Streaks of sunlight shone through the quickly dissipating clouds. A smile graced the face on the statue in the fountain. The roses perked up eagerly at the sun.

"And as for you......"

"As for me!!! You can't erase me! I am forever a part of you!"

Then there were two.

"Thank you."

"Thank you."

A Kodak moment as the two stared into the sun. Everything was perfect.

It is called "A simple Wish".

– Anton Piskac
December 10, 2000

Workshop # 4
Poetry
A Mute Audience – Pavalamani Pragasam
Beast of Burden – Subhajit Ghosh
Dignity – Hillol Ray
Don't Laugh on Other's Life – Vivek Saxena
Elected Silence! Talk to Me! – Seema Banerjee
Low on Green – Cynthia Proctor
Musings of the Mind – Bijal Dwivedi
Passing Life in Stride – Ahmed Tanhaa
Poor Man – Gummadi Venkata Reddy
Simple Dreams – Joseph Allen Hardy
Thanksgiving – B.K. Swaminathan
The Diary of a Relic – Smitha V
The Moment of Silence – Seema Banerjee
The Obsolete – Meenakshi Jha
The Runner – Hecletia
The Stare – Nicholas LaMattina
The Wait – MaryAnn Harrison
These Eyes – Helena Fernz
Your Eyes – Pili Pubul
Articles/Stories
A Simple Wish by Anton Piskac
Bondage by Vasudevan Raghavan
Contented Life by Pavalamani Pragasam
Dear Writer by Ramendra Kumar
Empty Nest by Subhajit Ghosh
Karishma Kapoor in Benegal's Rainiya by Chitra Parayath
Musings on a Rare Friday Evening by Radhika Ramaswamy
Point and Click by Maalok
Rains by Tyr Anon
Rains of Realization by Bijal Dwivedi
So Babuji by Ashish Nangia
The Cycle of Life by Dr. CS Shah
The Last Photograph by Subrata Mukherjee

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