I got up hearing a rasping knock at the door. Opened the mobile to see the time and its 1 am.
I was wondering who will knock the door at this time. Definitely, it’s my imagination. Too much watching the horror scary movie will result in such imagination and hear back extra unwanted. I was about to pull the blanket over me soothing mind heroically and heard back the knocking again. It was still more vigorous and repetitive.
My husband was not in town. It was a bad idea to watch a horror movie when I knew that. Now what? Should I go down and checkout?
No, it’s bad idea!
Ceaseless knocking sound continued. Constant banging made me curious and no choice left other than going down to the door.
I was sweating despite AC is on. Sweat drops fell down and droplet sound was louder than my bare footsteps. My heart was beating heavily, more than 100 beats per second. I grabbed all my courage and opened the door and slowly peeped out in small opening making sure to keep other hand on latch in case!
The whole bunch of people along with my husband shouted “Happy birthday Mamata”.
I had almost reached the death line and back to life to celebrate another year!
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Linking up with Anshu & Priya for #TellTaleThursday. This is a weekly challenge and prompt for this week is,
Write a story following this sentence – You hear a rasping knock at the door at 1 am.
Shilpa Nairy 
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🙂 🙂 Thank you for stopping by.
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Good it turned out well. Must have been planned by your husband.
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Ha ha. Yeah!!! Thanks for reading Abhijit.
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My heart was in my throat. Seriously, I had rather not have such a birthday party. To almost die out of fear is no fun. I am telling my husband to not ever surprise me like this. Good one, Shilpa! 🙂
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Ha ha. True Anshu. My husband had terrified me once after watching horror movie with those horror dialogue with spooky tone and almost to get heart attack. He was laughing in the theater for horror scenes and I was almost closed eyes!! Remembered that situation and wrote the plot 🙂
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Ha ha, I can almost imagine the scene. I get super spooked after watching a horror movie and hear weird sounds everywhere. LOL
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Narrated well and made us queries to know what next?, terrific birthday celebration.
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Yeah, too much terrific. Thanks Suma for reading and commenting.
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That’s so me! I have a love/hate relationship with horror movies too. Wishing you a very happy birthday, Shilpa!
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Nice to see someone like me w.r.t horror movies 🙂 Thank you Piyali.
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Such incidents can give a heart attack to anybody. But, such a sweet tale and all well that’s ends well.
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Thank you so much Rohan. I know its terrific!!
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Haha..A story to die for..
Well written, Shilpa. So spooky.
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