Miracle

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I think I was in 3rd or 4th grade when I first learned the love between pen and paper. After reading/encountering a youth magazine named Kishor Kontho, I fell in love with storytelling and wrote my first horror story, with a pencil (like Sadat Hossain Manto). Even though I was unaware of the methods of structure, my story had an ideal protagonist, foil characters, and villains. Surprisingly it had three structures. Intro to the character and his journey, a call to action when he meets with his friends and learns about a supposed treasure (common troupe), and an invisible villain testing the characters to give them moral lessons like Aeshop's fable, I think it was a conscious choice I chose after reading his fables, particularly about greed. And had a denouement where everyone but the protagonist succumbs to greed and dies and the hero gets a diamond and keeps it at his bedside as memorabilia. For me, it was a miracle. The miracle is that it was completed, later in my life, I tried to write a few more stories with plots I thought, were pretty interesting and worth exploring, but the miracle never repeated. For which I am still waiting.