We had 12 entries and to be honest, each and every entry was just flamboyant. Whether it be, new married couple playing holi or a gang who loots government on the pretence, a soldier struggling for his nation or a flight of dreams, each and every entry was just so unique in itself.

But, there has to be just ONE winner.

So should we reveal the winner?

Naah...not so soon.

So, first, presenting you the top 6 finalists of the contest, 'Color Brave'.

Note:- It's not in serial order.

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1. dramarcastic

#celebratingholiwithbsc #colorbrave #prompt1 #blackxgreyxwhite

Her life was a palette of colours bright,
His was in the shades of black and the soothing white.

She knew what colours looked like,
He knew what colours felt without the sight,
Her life was a colourful mess,
His was a 60's movie without the remix.

For her the colours meant nothing,
He regarded colours to be his everything.
She had the power to see,
while he had the magic to feel.

They were a mismatched case,
One who radiated the orangish vibrancy,
The other  who could lecture on the shades
of grey which he claimed were more than fifty.

For him emotions were colours to be felt,
He knew what red, pink and blue meant,
But he didn't know how they looked in sight
and it was her who had healed his blight.

Showing him how the shades of red, green and blue bloomed,
She freed him from his  blackened doom.

His colour blindness was his strife,
but she showed him the colours of life.

They were the epitome of the perfect hue,
She added colours while he rectified using his white,
Their love had seen its own colour as they grew,
From orange to the reddest bright.

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2. Godisgracious0102

#celebratingholiwithbsc
#colorbrave
#prompt3
#Nocolor
'What an artist! '

The little girl smiled brightly.

Hadley and Michael who were planning on adopting a child, were visiting the 'Aquarius Orphanage' as it was their closest option.

Mrs. Fernandez, the owner was showing them around, when Michael was mesmerised by the emerald colour of little Letty's eyes.

She had folded a perfect christmas tree from paper. The couple were confused as to why the tree was red.

Mrs. Fernandez smiled sadly and said, 'She has an amazing talent for craft but the girl is unfortunately blind. '

'When I do craft , I can imagine things in the world, ' she says with enthusiasm.

And suddenly Michael began to acknowledge the world around him, the colours around him.

He looked at the girl who had brought about this sudden change in him and said, 'How can someone who has the ability to make someone appreciate colours be truely blind? '

And at that time, he knew that he would love to have her as his daughter.

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3. VELLIGal

#celebratingholiwithbsc #colorbrave #prompt1 #greyxwhite

His life was just variations of grey and some strokes of white. He never knew what blue colour was like but according to his mother it looked the best on him. He wished he could see that colour too when his mother would smile so big outside the trial rooms. Though he had long accepted his monochromacy yet those fleeting thoughts would appear occasionally. Holi was one of those occassions.

Like every year he thought that he would be monotonously sitting on the verandah savouring gujias. What he didn't expect was his ever so lively neighbour to lean on the railing of her blacony while sipping on her thandai. Sans colour. Sans company.

They never talked but she was always the talk of the town. So out of the 300 residents of his society she would be the last person he'd expect to be in solitude at this time. She was also the last person he would expect to have a chat with.

"Blue looks good on you."

"Err... Thanks?"

And let's say that was how she managed to drag him to the society compound to enjoy the festival of colours, his cheeks tinted with a darker shade of grey.

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4. sonali112

#celebratingholiwithbsc #prompt5
#colorbrave #Red

She looked into the mirror while applying sindoor and blushed hard. A newly wed she was, had been more with her in-laws than her husband due to trips. But this didn't lesson her happiness to welcome the one person she was tied to, for the rest of the life, by that green color adorning her head.

For people like us, it's the holy red color that decorates a bride's hair, but the colorblind Isha, who couldn't differentiate red and green, had same significance of both. She wasn't the same always. She could see all colors until 13, but it seemed like with her mother's demise,the colors too faded from her life.
Not permanently though.

Turning, she left for the hall, not noticing the muffled laughs of Monu,
who couldn't wait to have fun with his Chachi on this Holi.

"Yeh kya apshagun hai?" Her MIL thundered shocking Isha. "Sindoor ki jagah kya harwa lagaya hai?"

Isha could've sweared that she took correct jar of sindoor, if only her MIL heard her. Her silent prayer was answered when someone spoke, "Maa rang se kya pharak padhta h? All that matters is bonding relations by heart."

Ajay smiled as he touched his parents feets, "Happy holi Maa Papa! Aur Monu, holi shuru hote hi shararat?", he twisted Monu's ear.

"Bura naa maano, holi hai!" Monu ran off shouting.

Turning to Isha, he took some red color and applying above her hairline, he smiled,"Happy 'our first Holi' ", and that moment she could see all the colors smeared in his kurti including red, the symbolic of love.

With her mother lost, she thought she'd lose the ability to love, but this moment she knew she can and only her man changed it.

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5. priya_265

#celebratingholiwithbsc #prompt1 #colorbrave #Blue

Title- The First Flight of My Dreams

"Butterfly, Butterfly which color do you want?" They asked.

"Pink," she chirped and all ran to touch that color as the girl in floral ran behind them.

Her eyes fell on me while running and I quickly averted my gaze from her. When after few seconds, I turned to look at her, my heart stopped pounding as I found her nearing me.

"Do you want to play?" She asked sweetly, standing in front of me.

"Leave her, Anna. He's colorblind he would probably touch yellow if asked for Blue," one of the boy commented which made me bow my head in shame.

"That's not the way to talk to someone, brother," she snapped at him.

She sat beside me on the same bench and whispered, "I remember my father saying that to me when I was small, to keep my feet on the ground and eyes on the stars," I listened to her as she removed a handkerchief from her pocket and handed it to me to wipe my tears, "But I won't say that, rather I'd say you to fly high, with your eyes touching the stars."

She passed me a warm smile as I drowned myself in the whirpool of her eyes.

"Don't let anything come in between your dreams."

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Even today her words ring in my ears as I take off the first flight of my dreams being an aviator. I was finally successful in proving that 'yes, nothing could stop me from achieving my dreams.' Though, she wasn't with me today, but I could see her smiling from afar.

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6. SHADOWOFMOON_

#celebratingholiwithbsc #colorbrave #prompt2 #BlackWhiteGrey

"In this colorful world, our world is colorless . " she whispered looking ahead through her lifeless eyes.

He smiled and his eyes of pure darkness too shined and those colorless words slipped from his lips and splashed to make her world colorful.

"Not everyone is lucky enough to unravel the secrets that dark holds. We should consider ourselves lucky enough to be residing in dark amidst black and grey with pinch of glimmering white and knowing colors is just a cover to the beauty that dark held. "

"But hey, how is it so easy for you to fall in love with colors ? " he asked amused .

She grinned and a shine graced her face while the fragrance of colors filled his insides with the words slipping from her lips.

"If you have waited in the abyss of darkness all life then those splashing sounds are enough to make you fall in love with them. You just have to do is feel them complimenting the black, white and grey. "

~And like that she found him leading her towards a mysterious shelter and he found her leading him towards his new favorite color .~"

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You all were just PERFECT! It truly was very difficult for the judges to chose top 6 because all the participants were literally playing with the words which made us overwhelmed.

To the one, who couldn't make it to the finalists, please don't be disheartened. Like, I said EACH and EVERY entry was just MARVELLOUS and I'm sure if you post it in your accounts you would be recieving uncountable praises because you guys deserve every bit of it.

And wait, on a special note there is honorable mentions as well, which we will be revealing later.

Thank You,

Team BSC❤
#starlights
#TomxJerry