Black

Paranoia, delusions, mirages in broad daylight dreams, strange prophecies, uncontrollable moments, addiction, apprehension, evil gypsies and the synonyms of the above mentioned words buzzed past my otherwise normal life. I stifled awake. I was sweating profusely and my brain had shrunk.

Something was happening to my milieu. There was something abnormal about my apartment. I could sense movement in the air. The usual buzz of the atmospheric taming unit had stopped. My computational gadget had stopped ogling with its CRT. The heating device which uses electromagnetic waves of frequency approximately 2450 MHz had also stopped functioning. Adding to all this was the deep resonating sound of the strange being in my apartment, which the Germans call ‘Raumgehilfe’.
I could hear of the sound of my breath. The silence in the room, sans Raumgehilfe’s peaceful hums ranging around 55 decibels, was heavy. I knew there was something happening below my apartment. I could feel the movement. Suddenly…..
“Knock knock knock”
I trembled when my front door was knocked. There was calling bell, but the stranger outside my fortress was trying to barge in. I slowly walked to the door and opened it. The strange man standing in front of me said something, but I was too distracted to listen to him. All of a sudden, a grey shadow crept behind me. Intuitively I knew it had to be ‘Raumgehilfe’, for the apartment had become completely silent. The strange man outside the door and Raumgehilfe conversed. They seemed be exchanging laughter. I shrunk behind my sofa, sweating.
Raumgehilfe came up to me. He looked sedated, but I knew that was hoax. I gulped down a ton of saliva, expecting great disaster.
“THE POWER….”

-------FLASH!!!!!!--------

I didn’t want to hear anymore. I knew it! The air condition started working, my computer lit up and the microwave gave its usual beep. I was jumping with joy. The power was gone for almost 10 minutes!
My roommate, who had been asleep, in spite of the heat, had been told by the maintenance guy that the power will be up any moment.
Phew! Benjamin Franklin is indeed great to have given us electricity!