
Ratan’s Diary
A Metaphysical Science Fiction Story by Dhrubo Neel
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From the turn at Dailpotti in Sutrapur, the road that leads toward P.C. Banerjee Lane often plunges Ratan into mystery. After walking a short distance, he thinks the road has ended. But if he goes a little further, it stretches long again. Following that road for a while, there’s an abandoned house to the right—probably from the British colonial era. Vines cling to it, and stonecrop and money plants crawl up the brick walls. The house holds a secret.
Sanjay from Class Eight, Nurul Amin, and a few others know about the mystery. Ratan didn’t. The others hadn’t told him. Too much knowledge ruins the mystery.
"But I think we should tell him. He doesn’t understand anything outside school. Just reads books, blabbers, and stare...