Twist @ Black Petals Magazine

Twist

 

by Ram Prasath

 

 

Sundar was a familiar name in many of the petty thefts in town.

Things became complicated for him when he tried his luck in the local jewelry shops. The jewelry shop owners secretly appointed two contract killers, Jagan and Kumar, to lift Sundar. A date was fixed.

Sundar was at a tea shop, reading a newspaper in the outskirts of town. Jagan and Kumar waited for him to step away from the tea-shop crowd.

A few moments later, Sundar, after paying for his tea, walked through a one-way lane into the bushes. Jagan and Kumar each retrieved a sharp knife from their trousers.

"Stick that thing in his throat. He can't shout," Kumar said.

"By height and weight, he looks much like you, man. Thick-boned. A hard push should do," Jagan murmured.

Sundar kept walking through the bushes. At some distance, the lane turned a bit. He went out of sight.

Jagan and Kumar approached him. At the turning, in the darkness, a swish of a knife was heard, followed by the chopping of flesh.

"Look at God's extraordinary creativity,” Jagan said. “You and Kumar are so much alike that I can trick everyone into believing you are dead, provided you and I share the gold that you picked." Jagan held the knife, dripping with blood, at Sundar's throat.

Kumar lay on the ground, in a pool of blood.

 

 

Ramprasath is a curious child always wondering about his cosmic placement. When not writing programs for computers, he watches documentaries on Voyager 1 & 2 and Cosmos.

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STORY: DOWRY

May 18, 2018 · by Author · in Fiction. ·

By: Ramprasath

Maha alias Mahalakshmi was very determined to not entertain dowry in her marriage.
“Maha, we may have to be flexible when good profiles approach us ma” her father Natarajan tried to convince her.

“Dowry is a sin papa. This thing has screwed so many lives of innocent girls. This practice should be abolished. I am not here to support it at any cost.” Maha said firmly.
Maha had to skip so many profiles to stick back to her disinterest on Dowry. In the end she received two recommendations from the agent. Both were appealing by horoscope and other aspects.

That evening agent Sadhasivam visited Maha and Natarajan at their house.

“Guess we may have to loose both profiles” he said to Natarajan while Maha listened.

“Why? Are they expecting dowry?” Natarajan asked.

“If they asked, turn them down uncle” Maha intervened.

“No Maha. These guys are really good. They say no for dowry ever since I got their profiles.” Sadhasivam said.

“Then what is the problem? They like us and we like them. It is mutual now right?” Natarajan asked.

“Since they demand no dowry, there are many brides showing interest on them. So the competition is too heavy and many of those brides are more beautiful than our Maha” Sadhasivam said.

After a considerable long pause,

“If we offer them fifty sovereigns of gold, can we draw their attention to us?” Natarajan asked while Maha helplessly listened.

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STORY: COPY-PASTE WORK

May 15, 2018 · by Author · in Fiction. ·

By: Ramprasath

Madan stood next to the great Indian actor Irfan Khan and this is not a filmfare award function stage but Madan’s personal computer. Madan adjusted brightness and contrast to balance the colors to make his morphed picture look real.

“Ofho Madan! Don’t you have any other work? Will you keep cutting and pasting photographs all day?” Madan’s mother Fathima shouted.

“This is graphics mom. Mark my words. I will become one like P.C.Sriram someday” Madan politely replied.

A year later,

“Ammee.. come na.. see this” Madan shouted from the hall.

Fathima appeared from the kitchen and saw the TV program.

In a star channel show, on a grand stage, Irfan Khan was handing over Filmfare award for best graphics work to Madan.

Fathima responded quickly.

“Dei, I have so much work to do in kitchen da. I don’t have time to see your cut-copy-paste work”

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INEXHAUSTIBLE - NOVEL

Rampage - Movie

Rampage - Movie



Definitely science fiction.

An Injected pathogen turns a laboratory rat into a monster which destroys a space station. The last surviving crew member was to return to earth with only the pathogen but due to the aggressive monster, the escape capsule bursts during re-entry which releases the pathogen.

A chimp, a wolf, and an aquatic gill-breathing animal turn into monsters due to the pathogen and how the protagonist bring back peace on the planet is the rest of the film.

Exaggerations apart, the film is threatening. Nature is contained but it has its own equations and balancing points. Though gene editing can be thought as a solution to the growing number of gene-based diseases and genetic disorders, isn't it quite clear that it is definitely not the way to fix things?

When Jurassic Park hit the theatres in 1993, it raised an important question. "Is science the only best way to fix the issues of mankind?". But this film ignores to raise that question. So between 1993 and 2018, 25 years have gone.

Which means, it has taken 25 years for people to realize that Earth has been spoiled beyond recovery. Now there is no turn back. Science is the only way to survive from this dying planet. I believe, this is the message the film intends to convey. There cannot be a news worse than this. 

Hush - Movie

Hush - Movie


"A Quiet Place" is not the first of its kind.

"Hush" is a 2016 American Horror movie in the line of horror without dialogues.

A writer who is deaf and cannot speak resides in an isolated house in the woods. She intends to spend her time in composing her 2nd book.

Because of the isolation, she becomes a victim to a psycho killer. Being a psycho, the killer slips into a hunting mode looking to spice up the kill. He first willingly allows things to fall in her favor. When he gradually advances on her, with her disability how she saves herself is the rest of the story.

This 80 minutes film looks clean, crisp and in a proper mix. A couple of more characters might have let the film loose balance.

Please inbox me on the things I have not written here.

Cosmos - A Spacetime Odyssey

Cosmos - A Spacetime Odyssey


One of my favorite documentary in Netflix is "Cosmos - A Spacetime Odyssey".

If I was allowed to travel back in time to my 17th age and asked to choose my study, I probably would have chosen Physics than Engineering as a first step towards becoming a theoretical physicist.

It is only because of the abundant chances it offers to study the physical nature of the boundless universe. Even though I belong to the community of people who don't prefer accelerating things towards extinction in the name of science, I honestly think that physics is a means to understand life better on the planet.

Physics offers perspectives and visions which one cannot perceive in the flow of life. Life and its chaosity as we live through compel us to not look back and get a glimpse of what we are going through. Instead, it makes us all yield to the competitions, emotions and survival challenges.

"How do you find time to write poetries and novels?" is one question thrown at me every now and then. It is self-explanatory.

In Netflix, this more-than-a-dozen-episode long documentary is available in HD print. Neil Degrasse Tyson has done a very extraordinary job of hosting the documentary with his excellent skills in conveying complex concepts of physics.

I lost count of the number of times I have seen these episodes back to back. It is one series I would love to watch any number of times.

Even though the series doesn't touch anything very complex like Einstein's relativity or Schrodinger or Quantum entanglement or multiverse, it has the much-needed basics with which one can quickly jump into the endless ocean of the physics of Cosmos.

The Cloverfield Paradox - Movie

The Cloverfield Paradox - Movie


This one is a 2018 American Sci Fi horror film. If you don't understand Quantum Entanglement and EPR paradox, you probably may not able to enjoy this film and its twists and turns.

For those who are driven by a never-dying intellectual curiosity, this film would only fall short but if you are not the one, you better stay away from this. Don't go to this movie.

Be aware that the measurement of time that we have now is only for a convenience to organize all known logical entities around us. There is no such thing called time but there is something called reality.  Reality is a by-product of spacetime. The fact that, how much it bends to a given set of physicality defines the dimension of time. This is how time works in every part of the observable universe.

To say in short, when the crew of a space station accidentally tears open a spacetime fabric, an alternate reality takes over. How they find back their way to Earth is the rest of the movie.

But again, if you are not familiar to EPR paradox and Quantum Entanglement, please do NOT go to this movie. You will understand nothing.

Real Steel - Movie

Real Steel - Movie


Why do all the good science fiction movies appear to have been evolved from a short story or a novel written by a writer/novelist (like me ;))?

Jokes apart, are you perceiving what I am perceiving? Are you deriving what I am deriving?

"Real Steel" was originally written by American author and screenwriter, Richard Matheson. Apparently, rumors say that he sold his original work "Steel' for a whopping $850,000 in 2003. Yes. That is what I am talking about. You are a millionaire celebrity with just one original idea away.

The film is wonderful. A dumped bot saves a small boy. He considers it a lucky piece and doesn't want to leave it estranged. Well, That's the max of emotions that one can expect from a Hollywood movie.

Now the bot is ready to fight and bring good fortune to both the father and the son.

I am wondering how much excited Richard would have been when he first conceived this idea? Bots punch each other in a ring! Interesting isn't it?

One of my roommates bought a Google Mini. It worked amazingly. It sincerely obeyed his commands, ran his songs for him from youtube, remembered his todo list and so on. Impressed by its performance, one of his friend - one of my other roommate - too bought one. Problems began to surface. The minis got confused between their owners as their voice recognition software was not that great, revealed the secret notes of one with the other and so on.

But why do I bother so much to have it a mention here? You know it right?

Gerald's Game - Movie

Gerald's Game - Movie

"Gerald's Game" was first written as a novel and later adapted into a movie.

This was written by Stephen King.

Gerald brings his wife to his guest house. What begins as a kinky-game between them ends up in a nightmare. Jessie who is cuffed to the bed frame remains immobile for two days since Gerald succumbs to death due to excessive intake of viagra.

In the two days, Jessie experiences delusions that takes her back to her teen days. She recalls the day her father behaves in a weird manner with her on his lap.

Confrontations between Jessie and the delusional counterpart of Gerald and Jessie carries the rest of the film until she finally escapes the guest house and allows herself to be saved by the neighbors.

The screenplay handles a certain degree of Freudism. I liked the movie especially because this is another movie which was made out of a novel work.