DO OR DIE Dark silence hung in the air for a few minutes as the ex-couple remained dumbfounded with extrapolation, unable to draw any conclusion as to what was going on or what was coming up in their lives. For them, The fate was a bitter reality they had to live every day where every step forward for a new-beginning stung like poisonous thorns of a beautiful red-rose plant and every step back was throwing them in a cage that was wrapping them up like a huge python around the trunk of a sandal tree. Komal felt her heart shrinking when caliginous shadows of past overtook her providential present. She didn’t know why life was so hard on her and why the almighty was punishing her when never in her life she had ever made an excuse to harm someone. She had been a good girl all along. A p