{Flash Fiction} THE JOKER: The Pain Underneath The Paint—Pawners Paper

Our pretence is our greatest woes' the flash fiction gives the readers and insight into the life of people around us. People tend to smile while th...

THE JOKER: The Pain Underneath The Paint

"'Our pretence is our greatest woes' the flash fiction gives the readers and insight into the life of people around us. People tend to smile while they cry and are hurting inside and this often leads into depression. The story emphasized deeply on 'the show of life', the dramatic life people live by. 

I dare not give much details, until you read it yourself."

 –Pawners Paper

The color of the  Iris of her left eye was like a fiery red coal with some tinted shades which presence glows far into the forest to rub the earth, wind and trees of their attention — a streamline of whirlwind that destroys nothing but itself as she shrink faster while its elemental mates watch with keen interest like audience awaiting the climax of a broken heroine. 

She was the face hiding behind the story to amuse the spectators—a joker juggling on a unicycle with smiles all over face while her audience pierces her guilt with pins of laughter and stares. And if silence drives wrecklessly into her cinema, drunk, protruding all songs of praise and heads of bows. They await and ask one another "what trick has she next?". That she'll never know cus she had never known. She was the queen of many painted faces with tongues of shapeshifting words— always, something pops in. And when the drama ends and the cinema shuts the door at the audience and throws her luggage at the street of the dark city . The rain will fall and wipe away the paint of pretence on her face and reveal the colour of mischief. 

Hence, with smile, her lips will sing to the sound of the downpour on the wooden roofs around— the songs of melancholy as she bids the night a cold goodbye in her drenched costume while she awaits the crows of the morn for another show—The Show Of Life!

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