Award Winning Story.... Too Good

There was a contest in TCS to write a fictional story for 500 words max which would start with the line :


"On a dark and foggy night, a small figure lay huddled on the railway  tracks leading to the Chennai station "


This is what a guy wrote for the contest....... and surprisingly, it was adjudged the best short story :))


On a dark and foggy night, a small figure lay huddled on the railway
tracks leading to the Chennai station. At once I was held back to see
someone in that position during midnight with no one around. With
curiosity taking the front seat, I went near the body and tried to
investigate it. There was blood all over the body which was lying face
down.


It seemed that a ruthless blow by the last train could have caused the end
of this body which seemed to be that of a guy of around my age. Amidst the
gory blood flow, I could see a folded white envelope which was fluttering
in the midnight wind. Carefully I took the blood stained envelope and was
surprised to see the phrase "appraisal letter" on it.


With curiosity rising every moment, I wasted no time in opening the
envelope to see if I can find some details about the dead guy. The tag
around the body's neck and the jazzy appraisal cover gave me the hint that
he might be a software engineer. I opened the envelope to find a shining
paper on which the appraisal details where typed in flying colors.
Thunders broke into my ears and lightening struck my heart when I saw the
appraisal amount of the dead guy!!!!! My God, it was not even, as much as
the cost of the letter on which the appraisal details were printed....


My heart poured out for the guy and huge calls were heard inside my mind
saying "no wonder, this guy died such a miserable death"...  As a fellow
worker in the same industry, I thought I should mourn for him for the sake
of respect and stood there with a heavy heart thinking of the shock that
he would have experienced when his manager had placed the appraisal letter
in his hand. I am sure his heart would have stopped and eyes would have
gone blank for few seconds looking at the near to nothing increment in his
salary.


While I mourned for him, for a second my hands froze to see the employee's
name in the appraisal letter... hey, what a strange co-incidence, this
guy's name is same as mine, including the initials. This was interesting.
With some mental strength, I turned the body upside down and found myself
fainted for a second. The guy not only had my name, but also looked
exactly like me. Same looks, same built, same name.... it was me who was
dead there!!!!!!!!


While I was lost in that shock, I felt someone patting on my shoulders. My
heart stopped completely, I could not breathe and sprung in fear to see
who was behind......... splash!!! Went the glass of water on my laptop
screen as I came out of my wild dream to see my manager standing behind my
chair patting on my shoulder saying, "wake up man? Come to meeting room
number two. I have your appraisal letter ready".

 

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