Life or Afterlife?
He stared at me for a whole minute without uttering a single word. His body was firm, fist clenched, lips tight as if they were sewed up together. I could hear his teeth grind. The atmosphere was tense. I stood in front of him, a blank slate. His silence bothered me. For a second, I felt like I saw his soul slowing turning hollow through his sunken eyes. His face, bereft of any emotion, his eyes looking dead straight at me without even bothering to blink. After a whole minute, he slowly opened his mouth to utter four words, words that felt like they were shot with a high intensity propeller straight at my conscience. "But, he's my son..." the man said. The arrival of the dreaded COVID-19 pandemic has been a great learning curve in the lives of millions of individuals around the globe. While we saw the rise in the number of infected cases on a day to day basis, the number of deaths due to the deadly attack on the respiratory system of humans was alarming. While on the one ...