Friday, October 5, 2007

The Perfect Bamboozle

With shutters and doors closed, the dark rumbling house stood in menacing silence. The moon rose full and high. The unearthly white light swamped the house revealing its stark grimness. The grass moved with mysterious life. The soulless hooting of an owl momentarily pierced the sky and uncanny silence followed.
Someone was moving into the Venugopal property beside Gaurav's house. Rumour had it that it was haunted ever since old man Venugopal passed away. It was half - past eleven and Gaurav was watching his favourite movie, "Do Not Be Afraid". He amused himself by supposing that his new neighbour must have been a vampire to be moving in at nightfall. The wooden crate, carried by two muscular men, contained a coffin. He shuddered at the very thought, but all the same, he knew there were no such things as "vampires".
Fifteen minutes later, a blue light flashed across the sky, a dog whimpered and more lightening followed. Suddenly, Gaurav heard a deafening piercing shriek. He was sure it was not the television. He went out to explore in the hellish blackness of the night sky before calling the police.
Gaurav saw that there was a living room light switched on in the Venugopal Mansion. He gingerly stood at the window sill to watch his new neighbour as she sank her deadly fangs into the neck of a petrified man.
AAACCHHHOOOOOOOO!!!
The musty cobwebs made him sneeze. The vampire saw him eavesdropping. Gaurav's hair stood on end as she looked at him with her fatal eyesight...........
Once safely back inside his room, he called the police to report the baleful creature with venomous fangs but they hung up on him thinking that it was a prank played by a mischievous kid. Gaurav was on the edge of passing out..
He was aroused from his daze by his parents. They were asking him to come downstairs to meet someone.
"Get a grip on yourself," Gaurav told himself . "This is just a bad dream." he said.
He went down to experience a bone-chilling apprehension. It was Vamprina, his new neighbour.
Before Gaurav could faint, she explained that she had just moved down from Hollywood to host a local television show. Apparently, she had frightened him when she was rehersing for it. When Gaurav asked about her glass shattering, noxious fangs, she admitted that they were made of plastic.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Great! keep blogging!
luv... usha aunty

Bizarre Kid said...

Damn!! Awesome :)
Well written!!

Caviler said...

You've got a good style. Pleasantly surprised to see young talent.

paro_frendz said...

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Ramana Prasad said...

creativity at its heights
keep it up.....

Ramana Prasad said...

creativity at its heights
keep it up.....