{"id":22,"date":"2024-01-30T14:39:10","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T14:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/100springs.com\/?p=22"},"modified":"2024-01-30T14:39:10","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T14:39:10","slug":"flash-fiction-the-drunken-poet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vinaya.com.np\/theword\/2024\/01\/30\/flash-fiction-the-drunken-poet\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction: The Drunken Poet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"46098212fc2f9bee8b0ca8ef084d6029\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-5781035789902986\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\"\r\n     data-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5781035789902986\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"5291051281\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>\u201cGive me some beautiful lines, make me feel good, make me feel special,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEvery night&#8230;.I see you&#8230;I feel you,\u201d he smiled at himself. \u201cSorry about the burrowed lines.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBurrowed?\u201d&nbsp; she asked. \u201cFrom where you borrowed that one? I mean not where, from whom?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFrom a song by Celine Dion,\u201d he replied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOh&#8230;you are a fan of Celine Dion,\u201d she said, he did not reply. \u201cI want no borrowed words.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLet me think of some fresh lines,\u201d he said even though he knew his mind was zonked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She grabbed the notepad from the table and flipped the pages. He rested his head on the back of sofa and stared at the ceiling. She slouched on the table reading form the notepad. There was uneasy silence for a while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWho is this girl?\u201d She was demanding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was happy that he did not have to think of fresh lines. \u201cRemember, I&#8217;m a poet,\u201d he said. \u201cGirls happen to be my subjects sometimes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou told me a story of a girl that you met in the coffee parlour. 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