The Candy Machine
I always wondered how i still remember some seemingly very much simple details about my childhood. For instance this one, climbing on to my wits, squeezing out my last bits of self control to save a 2₹ coin from my pocket money and eagerly waiting for the school bell to ring. And that hasty run to a candy machine with a hand on my pocket so that the coin doesn't jump out . The candy machine shop was in a lane my mom always warned me to never go to. And that is how i discovered my 'Pandora's box'.The lane was weird in a lot of ways with a way leading to an infamous haunted well blamed of eating up humans and the other way leading to a place where humans where blamed of eating up other humans.Having a candy machine in such a lane somehow reminded me of Halloween treats,i still used to run to that shop everyday. I push that coin in the Machine ,and those last shared glances between me and the candies before they come out of the machine were no less than a classic romant...