Suicide: Absence of hope

When the policeman entered the house, he found that all the luxuries of life were in place, intact, before he beheld the woman hanging from the ceiling with a crumbled paper in her hand. When he was done reading it, he muttered to himself ‘Alas! If only she had hoped!!’

A Short Story

He looked at the half-finished portrait, and knew it will never be completed. With the last bit of will-to-live fading, his heart wailed, and for once and for ever, begged for a concession of self-pity...