Escape the Ordinary....

Edit: I have added this story to my portfolio. If you'd like to look at it in a different format, follow this  Link ! The moon sat high in the sky. I remember how it bathed the muddy streets in an eerie pale-yellow hue. It’s finger like rays crept into the windows of the houses that dared to leave the shutters ajar. The howling of the wind sent a shiver down my spine. A chill settled deep in my bones and I couldn’t shake the feeling we were being watched. Sleep escaped me that night. I had been on edge for weeks. Waiting. Watching. It was not safe to stay in one place and I felt we had worn out our welcome here. It was time to move on and find another safe haven. Nazi controlled Germany had invaded Poland and forced us to seek refuge at the House of Varanavata. Its walls were vast and the space inside seemed endless. It was furnished with the finest items money could buy. Under any other circumstance, we would have been welcome guests. We would have lavished in the wealth...

Image Source:  Pandavas Brothers So I'm not sure if this is supposed to be the Pandavas Brothers or not. However, this is what I got when I googled "Pandavas Brothers". I also saw something akin to this in several of the stories for this section so it leads me to believe that it is in fact some weird rendition of them. I haven't seen any Indian art work like this, but it's interesting. Kind of creepy and steampunk-ish... I used the public domain version again. I like that someone else is reading it. I can't pronounce all the words right so it's nice to have someone who knows what they are doing read them. There were two stories out of this one that I found I could rewrite later on. There are as follows: Riddles at the Lake The 5 Panduvas brothers hunted a deer. Because of the hunt, they were thirsty. They found a lake, but before they drank, a voice told them to answer the riddles before they drank or they would die. Four out of the five ...

This week I'm catching up on the Mahabharata Part B. For this reading assignment I decided to try out the public domain version of the story. This had audio with it and it made it easy to listen and take notes. There were two stories that really resonated with me and I could picture them in a different version to tell a story in my own words. The first was  The House of Fire . This version was found in Indian Heroes by C.A. Kincaid. The queen and her children came to the palace of lac. The house was soaked in oil and ready to burn. Vidura warned them of this and begged them to dig an underground tunnel so that they may escape. When they dug the tunnel, Vidura returned to seek revenge on the guards. He burnt the guard shack, but little did he know that there was a woman and her children there to beg for food. The next morning when they village awoke to a smoldering palace, they assumed the bodies they found were Queen Kunti and her children and they wept for their loss. The e...