The Last Wish

Unusual Short Story – The Last Wish

Unusual Short Story – The Last Wish

An old bungalow is situated at the outskirts of city in a peaceful & serene environment surrounded by natural beauty & charm.

A budding writer Aneesh needs to find a place which suits his needs to concentrate on his work. He comes to know about the bungalow & takes it on rent for a month. He shifts from his home & takes all necessary items to spend a month over there.

He opens the door & enters the bungalow. All things are well managed & maintained by the owner to see that no discomfort is caused to the paying guest.  Aneesh moves up to his room & sets all his things at a proper place & goes to sleep.

On getting up he  is ready to start his work.  He takes all his things out. Suddenly, he notices a typewriter kept on the table in front of his room. He goes over there & starts typing his work. Suddenly he sees that his fingers are out of his control. He wants to type something & something else is seen printed on the paper. He cannot understand what is happening. Many times he try to write his own matter & something else seems to be printed on the paper. He thinks that he is not well & may be hallucinating. He keeps the papers aside & goes back to his room.

At night when he is sleeping he can hear the sound of the typewriter. No one is present in the bungalow except he himself & if he is not typing anything then who must be. He gets up & as he switches on the light he can see no movement around except some pages of story already typed. He feels afraid. He cannot tell anyone about it as people will say him mad.

He feels something is wrong with the bungalow & tries to know its past. Doing this he can feel that something follows him whenever he does his work writes his story. He lives under the constant fear of someone else being present there & can harm him. That invisible entity in the form of shadow traces him whenever he does his work.

After a long hunt one day he gets to know about the past of the bungalow & the typewriter. He founds a diary in the store room of the bungalow. It belongs to an ambitious struggling writer Ravi who wants to get his story published but all his trials end up in failure. His last wish remains unfulfilled to see his story published.

His last wish has left him trapped in his bungalow. He will not get solace until & unless his wish is fulfilled. Now Aneesh gets to know why he can feel that someone is looking at him whenever he does his work. The soul of this person wants to rest in peace which will be only possible when he leaves this world & goes to heaven.

Aneesh goes & sits on the typewriter. He can feel his hands moving automatically. He keeps on typing pages. After 15 days the story is completed & Aneesh now has 2 stories to get them published. He shows his work & Ravi’s work & requests the publisher to publish both of them. Luckily, the publisher likes both the stories & affirms that the book will be published within a month.

Finally Aneesh overcomes the fear of being followed & gives a tribute to Ravi, a copy of  book published in Ravi’s name. After that he leaves that bungalow in his own house wishing that Ravi would have got solace & freedom from this world by now. After Aneesh got that book  published & kept that book on the table near Ravi’s typewriter he had stopped following him & haunting him. Now Aneesh is free to live his own life.

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