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Magic and Magician : A short story by Sayantan Basu

    A helpless look is what my eyes cast upon the large, black hat. Just beside it is a black stick with which I picked a lively rabbit out of the hat, just a month ago. Yes, I am a magician. I am not that sort of magician who walks up to the stage in black coat, in a dazzled atmosphere and show magic to the already dazed audience. I am that sort of magician who performs magic anywhere, anytime and under any condition. It so happened that one of my friends once challenged me to disappear in an open ground in broad daylight. I asked him to count upto five and upon his fifth count, I simply vanished. My poor friend was simply in a state of utter consternation as there was no place where one could hide in that ground. I reappeared after half an hour or so as I saw him sweating hard. So that’s me. I vanished in my unique style which I call ‘Now you see me. Now you don’t’.  One day a child asked me, “Who are you? Magician? Wizard? Or some sort of spirit?” That amused me a ...