Theme 2: 2014: Allure

From @Mitchellez: 

She always got what she wanted,

“By hook or by crook” she said.

Infatuated and fascinated by him she was adamant to make him hers.

But he wasn’t allured by beauty or power.

All he craved was simplicity;

Which she had miserably lost

Innocence fleeing the cage of flesh;

Materialism filling her to the brim!

From @AbhiandNow: 

"It always baffles me"

“Why?”

“Because there has to be something, since he was always the much better choice than you ever were; rich, handsome and romantic.”

“Yes, I had something he never did.”

“What?”

“An interest in women.”

From @sourcasm: 

The allure for abandoned places made him travel all this distance. Having reached his destination, he explored the dilapidated fort. Suddenly he saw an elegant women walking towards him from a distance. He already had a cheeky pick up line in his mind ready, everything was fine until he realised that her feet were missing.

From @Goddamittt: 

She was waiting, excitedly. All she ever heard was his voice or read his emails. Expectations eroded her mind as to what he would be like. Finally, there he was, in crutches and wearing a smile which just hoped for acceptance. She was so overwhelmed, that in the end, it didn't really matter. His charm worked!

From @Pscripturient: 

In an overcrowded bus, he pretended to be blind to avail the handicapped seat. What seemed like a comfortable ride was now filled with her rhythmic laughter from the seat behind. He turned around awkwardly to steal a look and was allured by how beautiful she looked. His pretense made him look the other way.

From @NumbYaar: 

“Don’t take short cuts” they told him. But he knew life was too short for such advice. He went for the kill, quite literally. His first ‘assignment’ lay in a pool of blood as he nearly escaped a shootout. Alas, a bullet scraped his skull and came between him and all he desired.

From @KunalBaidMehta: 

The dance floor was crowded. Her shining nose ring was the first thing that caught his attention through the smoke from the smoke machines.  She turned towards him and her kohl eyes were alluring enough for him to get mesmerized. The sixth drink was enough for him to mistake a mannequin for a beautiful lady.

From @snehzana: 

The hitman stalked her. He was captured by her exotic scent, the inviting look in her eyes and her intoxicating red wine lips. He grabbed her neck and asked her “before I kill you, I want to know which perfume do you use?” “allure” she whispered.

From @ankitsharmatup: 

When I was young, I used to go at the end of the school year with very little pocket money to the bookstore to see what I could find to read over the holidays.The bookstore would routinely sell some titles for ridiculously small sums. They would be cluttered together through which I would search, with nothing much in mind, waiting to be allured, waiting for something to catch my eye.

From @DNRamki: 

Behind a towering glass pane, the advertisement proudly proclaimed “Your favorite books live on!”  But each day, he just walked past that shining glass pane, turned around the corner and entered a tiny little shop. The feeling of holding a book in his hands and taking in the smell was just too alluring to resist. 

From @rohank01: 

“A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies”, she quipped.

“So the allure of power has lured you towards me”, queried the flabbergasted Jaisingh.

With a ‘yes’ she shot.

But little did she know that those possessing power have an alluring eagle eye and a simultaneous gun shot from behind nailed her forever.

From @meticulousBlues: 

“Attraction is a mysterious thing, isn’t it?”

“Yes. It is.”

“What makes me alluring?”

“Your silence.”

“Why?”

“It projects your restraint. You can blabber about your problems, but you choose not to. Your silence lures me away from the lewd noises.”

“Hmm.”

“And what about me?”

“I don’t know.”

“For some reason, that is comforting.”

From @Stupidiotica: 

"Astronomy? Are you insane? You will become a doctor, nothing else. Understood?" thundered his father. The words fell on his courageously defiant ears; his decision already made, prepared for all sacrifice. Intricacies of the human body were no match for the raw allure of the distant stars and the unimaginable secrets their little worlds held.

From @ShekharTripathi: 

I ran towards the exit of the Lucknow Airport; boarded a cab and reached home within minutes.

It was 3PM and I wasn’t too hungry. But my olfactory senses succumbed to the alluring and hypnotic aroma of some delicious food.

Those rotis just begged for some paneer.

It felt like Heaven!! Surely Grandma knows sorcery!!!

From @vagabondinact: 

Do thoughts lure the words or words lure a thought? The urge to express, to articulate, to spell out those thoughts, otherwise lost; the feelings otherwise suppressed; the emotions otherwise hidden! A word a day,  is an allure that cannot be resisted and out comes the stories unbridled, yet bound by a word limit!

From @captain_speakin: 

As the skies turned to the darkest shade of blue, she walked brazenly through the woods, onto the crossroads for her next kill. With the last light reflecting softly from her curvy waist, thick long hair loosely braided, she stood there draped in a black lace sari alluring everything that set eyes on her. 

From @thescotchgirl: 

She was the hottest woman in that ballroom. She knew it. They all knew it. Her skin glistening like gold.  Her curves showing so well on at the right places. 

He was told his body couldn't be the temple of utmost allurement. He could now prove them all wrong.

From @alksmehta: 

Rohini,a middle class girl was so much caught up in a frenzy to make it to showbizz that the dubious compliments showered by the unethical directors allured her and she had to pay it hard by losing herself to their lust.By the time she could realise her mistake it was too late.

From @wistyloony: 

"You can just tell him how you feel.", he grumbled as she continued her daily one-way staring contest. "No, no! Once I tell him, it's all over.", she growled back.

"You don't know that. He might like you too!"

"Oh, he'll like me, alright. I'm just not sure if I'll after I know him. Magic fades away."