Dark Dreams- Damn Comics

BUTTONS by Dipayan Chatterjee My mother is obsessed with buttons. Wooden buttons. Metal buttons. Plastic buttons. Old buttons. New buttons. Rusted buttons. Broken buttons. Shirt buttons. Pant buttons. Good old fashioned buttons. Since my childhood...everywhere I looked the only thing I could see was buttons. She had more buttons than I had toys. Sometimes she would even make sock puppets for me using buttons as eyes & nose. She hoped it would make me like buttons. But it didn't. I hated all these buttons. But realising how much hard work she put in to raise me as a single parent...I tried to put up with her OCD. But not anymore. I am a grown man now. I have a family to take care of. And especially since she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's...it has become unbearable. It broke my heart to put her into an institute for the elderly...but what other choice did I have? Now that she has settled there and the doctor's confirmed she is slowly recovering...I have decid

                                                                   SHE LOVES ME                                                                 by Dipayan Chatterjee I am writing this to you now in all my senses. I may sound completely insane but you have to understand what I am going through. I am not mad. Its her...its all because of her. She loves me. I know she loves. I know she wants me. And she will do anythng to get her hands on me. But I hate her. I absolutely despise her mere presence. Let me start from the beginning... It started a few months back...right after my wife left me. I was emotionally broken. Lonliness engulfed me. But then she was there for me like a gleam of hope. Everytime I looked at her I had this feeling of warmth. It felt as if I wasn't completely alone. Her enchanting beauty fascinated me. Her endearing smile gave me a blood rush every time I looked at her. For months, I ran home from work filled with joy and love in my heart...just to spend tim