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Grade 11 Winner: Saman Nargund
Posted by Mariam Sandhu on Nov 20, 2008 in Short Stories, What's new?
Congratulations to our Grade 11 short story contest winner: Saman Nargund!
Monks. A million specks of stellar contradictions, celestial and pure.
They flock to a razed temple. A woman sweeps the floors with a straw broom, rushing. She does not have the same elegance that the monks possess. They stop to examine the surrounding colors on other beings, walking slowly, their draped clothing heavy on their aged shoulders, disappointed by the lack of vibrancy.
Calm erupts-
an earthquake.
Monks stand solid, their garments bright against the dull, crumbling background.
Rumbling waves threaten to crash against us (snapping bones, bruising tissue?). But the monks-
are aware that our survival is not indefinite.