Of Transitions and Endings

I'm not sure if people here know that I'm a cynic, but I am one. I'm always waiting for the other shoe to drop, for something or the other to happen that will end up disappointing me or else making me feel like I'm the one doing the disappointing. The reason for the opening sentence...

The Twenty-Fourth: On Disappointment and Catching Fire

Fifteen minutes back, I got a phone call. Assuming it’d be my mom, I picked it up. No one else really calls me, everyone I know is aware of how much I hate talking on the phone. So it was a representative from Star Movies, telling me that the Facebook Contest I had participated in...