Happiness Falls Novels & Stories

His heart raced, pumping adrenaline that felt ice-cold through his veins. "Riska, do you... do you feel something strange today?" Bima asked, his voice hoarse, a far cry from the cheerful tone he usually used when seasoning his noodles. Riska fell silent, her finger stopping its tap on the screen of her transparent tablet. She slowly turned toward the large window overlooking the city center, where the scent of happiness usually wafted from the instant noodle outlets. "Actually... yes," Riska whispered, her voice barely audible. "The happiness index data in the city has just plummeted in the last ten seconds, as if someone forcibly disconnected the emotions of millions of people all at once.

Drops don’t fall; they decorate too. Happiness, happiness, has never met you as new. Let it explore the inner you and decide to stay back with you, for you. I know the joy of singlehood. How can I then be happy as two? If you explore the inner you, you find that peace that no violence on your way can ever stand, as if it never even stood.

“That’s the magic of coming to a park, it reminds you of the little things that makes you happy, ice cream for example. Whenever I come here it’s just me and the childlike feeling the playground gives that automatically lifts my mood. It makes me feel like a child again.” “I totally understand that feeling,” I say, feeling my shoulders relax. “We should have come here sooner.” He coughs slightly. “Well if you hadn’t sent a shelf of tampons falling over we would have gotten here sooner.” He hides his laughter with another cough. I’m not having it with him this time. I push him off the swing, thankfully because he’s much bigger he doesn’t end up on the floor like I’d secretly wanted him to. “Y

A to leave the wheelchair as she wants to push it. “You are welcome, how was work? Hope you are not very stressed out.” Evelyn asks the man worriedly. “Work was fine it was as usual.” The man answers in his characteristic cold voice. “That is nice.” Evelyn says to the cold man beaming with happiness. The man looks at her, “Well, why are you so happy today?” He asks the woman behaving strangely. “Why can’t I be happy to see my husband after a long day? I am happy to see you my husband.” Evelyn says looking at man still smiling.

It had only been two days since my return, but I'd heard from different people how Jennifer, Dad, and Lisa had ended up. Dad had only married Mom because she was the only daughter of an affluent family—he wanted her inheritance. After Grandpa and Grandma had passed away, he'd started tormenting and oppressing Mom. When Hector was five, Mom was already severely depressed. That was when Lisa and Jennifer had come into the picture. Since then, Dad stopped coming home. During holidays, Mom, Hector, and I would only receive mockery and insults from Dad and Lisa. Mom stuck around for another five years for my and Hector's sake. Then, on my 17th birthday, she jumped off a building after being taunt

"It seems you don't understand the situation you're in. You'd better shut your mouth and walk. Do you want your husband to get hurt?" "I'm telling you," Hazel closed her eyes, letting her body suddenly sway. Her breathing became heavy and uneven. "It's... so hot. I... I... ugh." Within seconds, Hazel's knees buckled. Her body collapsed against the pavement with a loud thud, falling headfirst. "What the fuck?" "Hey, what's wrong with her?"

Some kids don’t know what they have till they lose it. His father also left angrily muttering an inaudible command for George to meet him at his car, George met Principal Francis gaze as he stood up, the old geezer was happy, what a sick man he thought sadly, he was never going to be happy he was about to leave the room when he was enveloped in a warm hug, the familiar scent brought hope to his face once again

she said defeatedly while Jules quited down. "Falling game is a couple game. You need to actt like a real couple. Where a man chooses his partner among the participants, only days are given in the game. There are activities and attendance. There is a punishment for those who are not active or caynt follow the rules. The price is high but that game is very dangerous. They give letters to the people they choose to participate in ", she explains almost whispering to me. "I think they started giving the letters yesterday in the lockers", Jules inserts.

But as the happiness intensified, a series of unfortunate events began to unfold. David had woken up feeling like it was any other day. He had gotten ready and gone to work as usual. The maid at Blake’s house had offered him breakfast before the family got ready and then he had gone to check on the car. That was when some red flags had started going off in his head. The car had been moved from its parking spot. It was nothing major or noticeable to any other person, but David was very specific about his parking technique.He would never have parked at this angle. He looked inside the car and ascertained that everything was fine. He then drove to the front of the house to wait for Ella and Jas

I realised in that moment that happiness was only temporary, and the worst part of it was that the people who steal the shine from your eyes and the happiness from your heart are the very people you trust not to, the people closest to you. The people you love.