In the dimly lit room,
amidst the sombre silence,
a lifeless body of the most beautiful woman lay.
A corpse which was a breathing beauty only a day ago. The body was kept here in the operation theater on a ventilator and not in a mortuary because it was the body of a brain dead person and a few organs had to be retrieved.
I, Dr. Akash was here to perform its postmortem along with my colleague, Dr.Sarita.
This was going to be her very first time; when Sarita would have to open up a dead body.
I could sense the tension in the air. I was thinking how to break the ice between both of us and make her feel like it's normal work.
Suddenly, I noticed the light bulbs of the theatre had started flickering.
Before I could gather myself and call someone to check the reason behind the low voltage electricity.
I saw a trembling Sarita gaping at the corpse with her mouth wide open.
The corpse eyes had opened widely and were fixed on the ceiling.
Strangely I was frozen and didn't know what to say or do and was simply shifting my gaze from the corpse to Dr.Sarita.
The creepy stillness was broken as the corpse began to speak, its voice a chilling lament. "People, oh people, they squander away their lives," it murmured, its words echoing with an eerie wisdom. "Like sand slipping through their...