Creative Non-fiction

By Sarah de Caen I wasn’t searching for secrets. I was looking for answers — medical records to explain the complications that surrounded my birth. I expected a few pages of clinical details, something routine, forgettable. Instead, I opened the email and my world split in two. There it was, in black and white:  “Infant male, born alive, 19 October 1969.” A day before my birth date. Same surname. Same hospital. I read the line again, and again, until the words blurred into si

By Javishkar Reddy There are many things in this world that look the same, no matter what city you are visiting at the time. Like the way a thin string of mozzarella cheese hangs in the air just before someone lifts a slice of pizza up to their mouth. That string is always the same, wherever you are. But her smile, at the end of that slice, that’s something completely different. It hides just behind the freshly seared crust; her teeth revealing a mischievous glimpse of who sh

By Deborah R de Souza Life has a strange way of directing one.  Just when we, or at least I, think it is going one way, it changes gear and shifts me somewhere else. When I was growing up, I never truly felt like I was part of my family. With two older siblings, my parents had a template of upbringing that worked beautifully for them.  But not for me.  I like space. I like doing things that gave me delight even though some of them were things that many would not think of doin

By Upama Bhattacharjee It was laughter. It was that open, unabashed, loud laughter that I had first come to associate with her. It rang...

By Thaimi OReilly Causse CAPITULO 2 PARTIDA ( EL MURO DE BERLIN ) EN EL TELEVISOR DE CASA , EN LA PEQUEÑA PANTALLA LA NOTICIA OCUPABA...

By Lovely Joy Galez Hi boo, How are you today? I hope you’re doing well out there  because it will make me smile knowing your answer will...

By Dr Shreyas Srivatsan Part 1 - 3.00 a.m Disaster It was the month of February, 2020 at 3:00 a.m. when a sharp, unnatural thud shattered...

By Sambhavi Mohanty Nowadays all the folks around the world have become too advanced to read books ……uh this is what people around us...

By Surjeet Prajapati या तो कोई किसी को इतना न चाहें  कि उसके लिये अपना जीवन ही भूल जाए और अगर कोई ऐसा मिल जाता है तो उसे ऊपर...

By Gauthami M M Board the first women's compartment of the metro, lean into a corner, plug in my earphones, and become oblivious to the...

By Hani Manjunath The sun warms the cobblestone streets beneath my feet, the heat so relentless it can be felt even through the soles of...

By Rahul Kumar About the writer  Rahul Kumar is a teacher by profession with more than 5 years of experience in the  field. He is...

By Saloni Jain Oh hey everyone, it seems like I need to rush through my speech today as I have an important meeting later. Oh yeah, so...

By Saloni Jain I am a person who thinks deeply about everything. While this often helps me gain better understanding and make clear...

By Abhijith G By the beginning of June 2023, my soul desperately yearned to travel far away. During that time, my friend working in...

By Niharika Srikiran The deafening silence pierced my ears, like the thousands of tiny arrows that pierced Gulliver. I had never been...

By Vedashree B N Journeys have legs too. They put their fresh first step in our minds. We never really wait for buses and trains to...

By Vedashree B N Sitting under clouds always gets me thinking. It's the slow gradual drift, too slow to miss your eyes. If you look close...

By Aarav Kumar I could have died for an umbrella. Raindrops landed and formed queues on stray strands of hair, and then trickled down a...

By Jyothsna Bonthu “ I have no nets to catch fish ”, cried a devotee. The docile Monk retorted, " I could transform you into a Hawk, if...