Short Story

By Tejas Yadav You fell down without a warning on Wednesday. Thud! Dead in the middle of the marketplace. People ran to help, turn you,...

By Tejas Yadav Sense of Self “What’s the matter?” Juan pretended to check his texts, once more. “Oh come now,” Mirella said. “Go on,...

By Tejas Yadav She wiped away silent tears. A coral-peach sun swam in the double waters: a stream of salt trickling down her cheek and...

By Tejas Yadav He felt her beady eyes on him, slowly scanning: up and down, then down and up. Some muted hostility glinted behind those...

By Shreya Tare The rugged ground felt better than belt slaps under my body, absorbing the roughness through my attenuated trousers. It...

By Shrayansh Chopada It was sometime in the first week of October, when the eager cold of the coming months rubs itself against you from...

By Rinku Prakash It was still not too dark when she decided to get out of the cramped room where she had been stuck for the past couple...

By Swaraathmikaa The judgement Varsha was waiting in a sabha outside the gates of heaven and hell. There were others like her, waiting...

By Hiti Anand In the past year, there was an army of ants. They were black ants. They didn’t have a house. One fine day they decided to...

By Prabal Das I was returning from the office. On the busy city road, I was caught in traffic. I was in hurry to reach home which was on...

By Sidak Singh Narang I graduated High School as Valedictorian.I had my extracurriculars in order, I was in the right path to get into an...

By Bharath Adepu Ananya is a modest girl with pretty looks. She is so fair that if we touch her, we may leave our fingermarks on her...

By Dr Santhosh Rajagopal It was this sultry desolate evening that one gets used to as a doctor in the hinterland. Nothing much to look...

By Swati Verma The world is turning upside down. Sea waters are filling the lands, muddy water flowing from bank to bank. Mountains, not...

By Ankita Mishra So, this was during the summer of 2017, when I was admitted in the Oncology Ward of Army Hospital in New Delhi. I was...

By Shubham Arvind Birmi This is fiction yet based on events that we have or might experience if the nature is either kind or cruel for us...

By Kanchan Deora सावन का महीना जैसे मीरा की आंखों से बरस रहा हो, कांपते हाथों से वो अलमारी में रखे कपड़ों को निकाल पास ही रखे बैग में लगा...

By Kanchan Deora रागिनी और राजा दोनों पडोसी थे रागिनी के माँ बाप नहीं थे और राजा अपने माँ बाप और अपनी ५ साल की बेटी इप्शिता के साथ रहता...

By Kanchan Deora वो हर रोज कालेज आते जाते मुझसे टकरा जाता, लम्बा कद और भोला चेहरा जिसपर उत्सुकता और मुस्कान हरदम बनी रहती। कहीं ना कहीं...

By Rupali Tiwari I look at her. She is my future. So why does it feel like looking into a mirror? Is she my past? Or am I her future? She...