Micro Tale - 9
"how it come? You never loose." her widened eyebrow turned arched.
"I was combating with two against your three" as I began to the push the chair under the table.
"wait! you were also having three, Isn't it? arched her other eyebrow.
(I walked out)
she flipped it and saw queen of hearts.
*blushed and sneaked a smile*
About the story
- In this narrator is a playing a card game (most probably poker) against a lady. As soon as the game ended, lady was totaly amazed or should I say flabergasted that the author who is a veteran in that particular game had lost (that's why she widened her eyebrow initialy).
- In her amazement, she questioned that how the author lost the game and this made her bit skeptical about it (as that's why she arched her eyebrow)
- Soon author explained that he had two cards against the strength of three (which her opponent, lady had). So due to lack of fisibility or strength, his lost was certain.
- This made our lady grew more skeptic about the author's loss because to her knowledge author was also having three cards in hand.
- But author didn't answered and walked out, leaving her in delima.
- When the lady flipped that mysterious 3rd card, she discovered that it was Queen of hearts and soon figured out that why author couldn't place this card on the table! (to know the reason, continue reading)
- This made the lady flattered and she began to blush and smile.
Tips & Tricks
- By carefully scrutinizing this tale you will descover that how important is too have a sound/decent knowledge on the facial expressions. Imagine if you are writing a novel, how much impact would it make in forming your dialogues and also it gives a clear picture for your readers to churn out the concealed thme in the tale. So readers are advised to Google words on facial expression like movements of eyebrow,smile, color of cheeks, tone of conversion,eyes. Some examples are
misty eyes = represents the tear filled eyes or soby eyes
downcasted his eyes = reprerents embarassement
- Including a spectra of games (esp. gambling or cricket or betting) apprehends with the liking of readers and also adds a bit sceptic or mischevious or adultry environment to your story.
- It also advisable to depict certain actions of your character that makes your story free from any abrupt/sudden changes/twist. This is very important as without the smoothness in your story it makes the reader bit pissed off. Eg Before the narrator left the room, I've shown that he "began pushing the chair under the table" implying that he is about to go out of the room.
- It also advisable to give certain line under the bracket or parentheses. Hold on! Of course it is not mandatory and it totaly depends on the auhtor's wisdom. Like I've done "I walked out".
- Now the reason "Why author couldn't place the Queen of hearts on the table?" My take is that queen of hearts somewhere represent the loved one or someone's feonsay and placing this on the table (or risk) and that too on a gambling table involves tremendous/humongous risk of loosing her which our friend author won't bear. So he kept the card out of the playing zone and which ultimately succumb/decreases his total strength and he finaly lost the game but save her love from the bet!
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About the Author
hey I'm Arpit Agarwal (an ink pot) 21 year old aspiring engineer.
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