The Hidden Memoir

"Ma'am, what inspired you to write this book?" enquired one of the journalists. "Emotions," she replied and walked out of the press conference after announcing the release of her fictional novel-"Pain-A lifelong phenomena".

Five years back, he had assassinated all her emotions and the only evidence of his heinous crime was her pain which, of course, wore an invisible cloak now.

He was waiting for her outside the conference room. "Karma" doesn't spare anyone and he
suffered every minute. His every breath made him realize that he'd taken someone's life. He had searched for her everywhere, his pain was spreading like cancer every single day and the only cure for his incurable pain was her forgiveness.

He walked up to her and held her shoulders. "I am sorry," he said. He wanted to pour his heart out to her. He wanted her to know that he had been living like a dead soul every minute since he realized what he had lost. He held her shoulders with passion while his eyes advocated for the regrets of his betrayal. However, before he could make her vulnerable to any form of emotion she gently asked him to take his hands off her shoulders. She was numb to his touch. When emotions fail to evoke feelings within a person, physical sensations are too fragile to elicit a response.

Denying emotions are the most sought after weapon to combat pain. Her pain echoed in her abandoned hope towards the feeling of love. She witnessed tears rolling down his eyes but her heart refused to notice his pain. His deceitful nature compelled her to destroy all his memories with the fire in her heart and now all she could reminisce was that he was the father of her unborn child. How could a mother forgive the mastermind of her child's murder? “Fiction is the truth inside the lie,” said the versatile writer Stephen King. The residual ashes of the memories she burnt, reincarnated in the pages of her fictional novel. Pain mentored her and she was now an author who had mastered the art to remain immune to emotions. She had once read this quote by her favorite poet Samuel Rogers- “I lived to write, and wrote to live," and she permitted her soul to be governed by these lines forever.

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