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The Writer's Dilemma
Yasvir Sorout ( yasvir420@gmail.com )
The writer had read the passage for two times but he decided
to read it one more time. He has been working on this story for a long time.
Actually a very long time. He had tried to write this story for many times but
every time, he found some error so he had to start over.
But this time, he was happy with his new story. He was happy
that finally he had gotten some intelligent characters. He smiled proudly and
looked at the passage one more time.
" Hey" Suddenly a sound struck to his ears. He
looked here and there but there was no one but an absolute void.
" Hey" the sound came again. The writer again
tried to found out who it was.
" Hey, look down" the sound came.
The writer looked down and found a very tiny man standing on
the same passage he had just written. The writer was bewildered. He closed his
eyes and jerked his head and looked again. The tiny man was still standing
there.
" Yes. I am a real person." The tiny man said
rudely. " I have some doubts about me. Can you explain those to me?"
The writer was shocked. he could not believe that he was
talking to one his character that he had just written. But he spoke
hesitantly," O....O....Okay. What are ..your doubts ?"
" First of all tell me, why will my wife divorce
me?"
" Because you are a rude man who is cheating his wife
" The writer replied.
" Okay. Second doubt- Why am I the rude person?
Couldn't you just write me as cute person?" the tiny man complained.
" But there are already so many cute guys. And also, I
can give you whatever characteristics I
want to but you have full freedom to change them."
" Do I ?" The man said sarcastically.
"Yes. There are so many characters in this story who
have changed their personality. I, then , had to make some adjustment. If they
could change themselves , so could you"
writer replied.
" Oh.. what a crappy answer. You suck."
" Yes. he is absolutely right" Suddenly a tiny girl
appeared in an another passage of the book. " you really suck" The
girl said angrily.
" Now , what is your problem? writer asked.
"Well, first of all, why am I a girl?"
" Because there are only two gender in Humans"
" So, why didn't you make me a boy?" the girl
complained.
" why do you want to be a boy?"
" because then, I will have all the freedom. And no
other gender will be able to oppress me."
But before the writer could say anything, an another tiny
girl appeared in another page.
" Yes. Tell me why you made us girls weak."
" I did not make you weak. You chose to be weak. For
me, you all are equal. For me, you all are humans."
" Then, why did you make genders?"
" Forget genders, tell why am I Old?" a very old
man appeared in another passage.
" Because that is the life cycle. You take birth, then
grow to be an adult and then become old and ultimately death." The writer
replied.
" But why? Couldn't you just leave us young only. No
one wants to die or at least give us
longer life"
" Believe me, in my previous story , I gave the longer
life and in my very first story, I had made only one gender, but I had to end
things very drastically. You do not want that end." The writer tried to
convince them.
" Okay. Then why could you not just write female as
stronger character." the second tiny girl asked.
"For me, male and female both are equally strong and
equally weak."
The second tiny girl took it as an offense. " Look,
mister Creator, Women are stronger than men."
" No, you are not. You both are equal."
" We are not equal. Men are stronger. " Now the
tiny man spoke in between.
The both tiny girl felt offended and all three of them got
into a huge debate. The writer tried to calm them down.
" Look guys. don't fight. I am still writing the story.
Have faith in me, everyone will get justice. Today, men can be little
dominating but women's days are coming also. This is how it is going to
happen."
" Well, we do not care what is coming next. " The
man said angrily.
" What do you mean?" The writer asked.
" Well, you are no longer authorized to write anything
in this story." The first tiny woman spoke.
" I do not understand"
" Okay. In simple words, we will complete this story
now. You have no right to write about us."
" But I am your creator. And only I know the ending.
You will not be able to handle this story."
" You do not worry about that. We will handle it better
than you. You are nothing but a hopeless writer who does not know what he is
trying to write."
" How can you even say that?" the writer's heart
had been shattered. His creation had turned against him.
" We do not need to explain it to you. You created us
but now your work is done." the old man said.
The writer looked at his book. Just a few moment back, he
was proud that he had created an intelligent story. But it had turned out to be
the most arrogant and foolish story that he had ever written.
" Believe me. you will mess up big time. You can write
the story but let me control it at least." The writer begged.
" Can't you get it. We do not need you." The first
tiny girl said very rudely..
Tears started to rolling down writer's cheeks. He had no
choice but to give up the story. After all, it was he who had written free-will
concept.
" Okay. I am leaving. I have only request- Take care of
my story." The writer said while wiping his tears and he disappeared.
All the characters cheered very loudly. Now, they were
completely free. All of them were very excited. Now, they were the in-charge of
their stories. Now, they were the creator and inventor. And first thing they
invented, was the Religion. Second thing they invented, was castism , racism
and sexism. Third thing they invented, was war.
And when they could not find anything else to invent, they
mixed these three inventions up. All the characters were very proud on their
inventions. But writer knew the consequences. He tried to intervene two or
three times but it was too late now. Things started to get worse.
Soon, the characters started to realize that. They tried to
control the consequences. But more they
tried to control , more bad thing started to invent themselves. The characters
were not able to understand what was happening. So, they begged the writer to
take the control back.
They prayed and prayed but the writer did not answer. He had
moved on.
He is creating something else, something beautiful ,
something more intelligent, something which will not turn against him.
The characters are hoping that their creator; their writer
will come back one day. May be, he will indeed come back but he will not save
this story. If the writer indeed comes back, he will come to end this story. To
end it forever.
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