Her beauty effortlessly managed to arrest the pulse of each heart at the office and keep it in a dreamlike cage where she could have a look at each at her will and derive pleasure which, it had to be said, was a touch malicious in nature.

~ Pawan Mishra

Pawan Mishra Beautiful Beauty Cage Dreamlike Heart Malicious Pulse

This is where the whole thing entered into a vicious cycle, for her proximity always inebriated the hearts, thus only deepening their desire to remain hostages in the cage so that they could booze even more on that beauty.

~ Pawan Mishra

Pawan Mishra Beautiful Beauty Booze Cage Desire Dreamlike Heart Inebriation Pulse

Did you ever look back at some moment in your past and have it suddenly grow so vivid that all the intervening years seemed brief, dreamlike, impersonal—the motions of a May afternoon surrendered to routine?

~ Roger Zelazny

Roger Zelazny Dreamlike Past Remembering Years