Those Broken Whispers Volume II

By Pabitra Adhikary

In the quiet dance of whispers, unspoken words linger like elusive shadows, weaving tales of emotions that find solace in the silent spaces between conversations. Within the realm of the unuttered, a profound language emerges, revealing the profound depths of sentiments that transcend the limitations of spoken expression.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ukiyoto Publishing
• Release date: Dec 7, 2023
• ISBN: 9789360492939

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Those

Broken Whispers

Volume II

Ukiyoto Publishing

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Published in 2023

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Contents

Short Story by Pabitra Adhikary

Poem by Ajit Wadhwa

Short Story by Yashodhara P

Short Story by Simran Khan

Poem by Ponung Ering Angu

Short Story by Meher Pestonji

Poetry by Indrani Chowdhury

Short Story by Mitrajit Biswas

About the Authors

Short Story by

Pabitra Adhikary

Adventure of Camelia (A Science Fiction)

Camelia, my name is Camelia. Today is a special day of my life. A spaceship from NASA will leave for outside of solar system a little later. I have got an opportunity as an Indian woman. Today is the most thrilling day of my life.

My parents are not alive. Had they been alive they would have been very happy today. Modern science considers that after death the existence of humans doesn’t end. Their vitality enters into a huge black darkness. If they can see me from there then certainly their chests will swell with pride.

My co passenger, Robert Malcolm is a test tube clone. The brain of one dead scientist has been transplanted in him. Several biomedical memory cards have been inserted in his brain. To improve his decision making power a chip has been put in his brain so, from many options, he can easily decide the best.

It is about time. Both of us are completely ready. A while later we will leave.

At one point of time I had very good friendship with Robert. Then I used to like him. But now there is no more friendship between us. He considers himself to be very intelligent. He had taken me to be easily available like other girls, but I am not so.

Now he is behaving with me in such a fashion that others think that we have friendship between us like before. He shook hands with me. I did the same.

Both of us are now sitting inside that space ship, in the depths of unknown space. We have come a long distance from that blue planet.

Mr Malcolm is sitting right beside me but isn’t looking at me, even inadvertently. Perhaps he is very busy with his own work. I took a glance at him. Can he feel true love? Perhaps not.

Once I had promised, I’ll never look at him. But why isn’t he looking at me at all? I, myself,cannot understand the complex chemistry of my mind.

But, I will also not give him any importance. To keep myself busy I started watching the big computer screen attentively. Just then I got a jolt and my eyes became blurred.

This spaceship is following a wrong path of the solar system and by following this path we will never be able to return to the earth.

I screamed, Robert, I think we are following a wrong path.

Robert replied, Yes, I can also understand. Definitely there was some mistake in the programming.

I was cross, And you are sitting just like that.

Robert said firmly, No, I am trying, I am trying my level best.

I said in disbelief, I think, you are not trying properly. You move aside. I’ll try.

Robert said coldly, All right, you try. I would rather check on that side.

The next two hours that passed was the best experience, the best adventure of our lives.

It was a battle for survival. The last efforts. I am trying to make contact with the earth somehow and if that happens then certainly some way out will be found. And he was trying to somehow control this spaceship and return it back to the earth. But both of us failed. No effort is becoming successful.

Won’t it really be possible to bring back this spaceship to the earth? What will be our future? Who will come here to enquire after us? Shall we be finished?

Then we saw, as if, a comet is moving towards us with great speed.

I shouted at Robert to warn him. Robert said, Yes I am trying. However the disappointment on his face was saying something else. How long can we survive like this.

Both of us kept trying. Suddenly we saw something like a ball of fire crash upon us. There was