Syed Azeem has written 7 short stories in different genres like SciFi, Romance, Dark etc. Though, he says that he doesn't like writing short stories much. His short story "When the demon fell in love" was shared more than 7000 times on Quora back in 2018. His other 6 stories are not available online anymore (As they were written as co-author for books that are on Kindle and Amazon on sale as of now and not public) but we have the access to the short story we were just referring to!
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When a demon fell in love:
At the edge of the expanding and exploding universe, at the reversal of time until everything began to implode. Witnessing this all sat a demon at his window ringing the death bell, It has been 4 million years since he found his own little world whose inhibitors called it "Arrth" or something, he wasn't sure. He vividly remembers his first visit to Arrth when he was cold and his heart was rigid. It was an autumn night and he saw a girl sitting on her window crying over her life.
"Am I really unlovable? Why do I have to be the one who ends up with the broken heart?" she was mumbling.
He scanned her and found her heart in perfect health as the concept of a broken heart, demons do not understand.
"I wish I had someone to talk to, someone to call my friend doesn't matter if he is a good person or bad, I am just fed up as it always ends" she confessed.
"I am sad and alone and miserable, I don't know how long I can pretend?" she added.
He thought his rage would end but if he said so, he would still pretend.
The misery, the pain, the loneliness, she just wanted them all to end, sitting at her window pane... same as it all always end. Her words fell into his pointy ears, words that he had never heard before. He has brought chaos and havoc on thousands of worlds but the agony of staying alone... he understands. Between his demonic upbringings and the fear of being left alone, his thought stands for killing and creating chaos is what he is taught and understands. To understand love and kindness, he still pretends. For last few centuries, destroying worlds hasn't been that fun as he is left alone in the end. His purpose to destroy gets complete but being happy, he just pretends. He saw the girl sad and for once he wanted it to end. "But how?" he asked himself as the concept of kindness and affection to him were all new. He will fail to see the smile on this girl's face and that his heart somewhere knew. The girl just sat there with a sad face at her window but the night was yet young, The misery of being left alone saddens him as if he was stung. He went away and searched for lonely suns with planets yet to burn as destroying is what he has always done. Ten light years away he found a galaxy with lots of lonely suns and to end their misery and remove the pain where he was stung. He burned them all and burned the suns. He went back to her and looked at her, waiting for the light to reach her and maybe she'll be happy after that, he thought. Ten years looking at her being sad at her window pane was tough and neither was she ever happy nor anything ended her pain. Time was lost and happiness gained as finally one day, the cosmos rained. At first, this was all that the little girl desired, she looked at the window at all the fire as if the entire cosmos burned just to see her smile and she did with her teary, shiny, and glazing eyes. She stared deep into the burning skies and for once she was happy. Two yards away or so the demon cried while controlling his emotions. If he said that watching her smile was not his ultimate desire then he would be lying but then happened the worst, something that he never thought and how could he? The fire he created to make her smile, caught the earth and burned them all, neither they could run nor they could crawl, while trying to make her happy he brought humankind's fall. Furious with himself and realizing how cruel the universe was, he couldn't forgive himself as he saw the girl burning in the fires of his own gift. He ran and ran as far away as he can drift.
He wanted all to end and to see everything burning, for once he wished someone to be happy and then saw her burning. He wanted universe to suffer for the death of his only friend, this might be the only way for his rage to end, at the edge of the expanding and exploding universe and at the reversal of time until it began to implode. Witnessing this all sat the demon at his window ringing the death bell. He thought his rage would end but if he said so then he would just pretend. He was left alone once again,
a whole universe was burning and about to end mourning the death of his only friend.
The misery, the pain, the loneliness, he just wanted all to end. He wished sitting at his window pane, same as it all always end!
THE END.
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Currently he is writing his next short story "When i grow up" which is about a five year old girl who dreams about being an adult and her life, It will be updated here sooooon!
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