‘Do you believe in ‘Divine Justice’?”, suddenly my younger daughter asked that day. “Why are you asking this question? You know, I don’t believe in anything illogical ! There is nothing called ‘Divine Justice’ in this universe. We live in a hypocrite world. It’s the truth which is paralyzed here while the reprobates are given […]
Arising from the Dust : #AFTD, 32 Stories of Grit and Grandeur
Arising from the Dust She woke up from the cindersWith laden wings alongFlecked with ashes of the yoreLissome, yet so strong! Her wings weren’t mere feathersBut, limbs of ores alloyedAh! Christened brash and brazen,The Phoenix rose from fire! Ancient Greek mythology says, Phoenixes were monsters resurrected from the remains of their predecessors. Monsters? I was […]
Dark Diwali
Mitranya cried last night. She was getting ready for her wedding. She wept profusely for the seventh time and the dark sky celebrated her wedding night with extra sparkles scattered all over. The otherwise soothing autumn breeze was furious. It effused ether, smothering enough for all who had sensitive eyes, ears and breath. I missed my zephyr. Her […]
Alice and Thumblina on a Blind Date: #TheBlindList
Alice was a menace! She was not that bored and drowsy girl as Lewis Carroll proclaimed her to be, but was an errant grade-schooler with mischief in her moves and a method in her madness. On the contrary, I was a nice girl, sweet and simple with vivid dreams in my colossal eyes. That […]
The Hermit Crab and a Cancer Heart…
Her heart was made of resin, ’twas clear, fashioned easily… She revived and restored it after every hurt and aversion, but it retained those imprints… ….forever… It pretended to be relentless but died from within after each stigma… Every time… its resilience made it more frangible for people to wield it. People around her were happy… […]
The Red Cardinal: Five Sentence Fiction
There were many chirping birds around the fowler… He forgot the nightingale cooing in his den, ensnared…of her own free will… The hunter never cared until she stopped singing for him… Only he realized when there emitted a cacophony of caw after dead crows… She waited for her Cardinal… The Red Cardinal […]
Total Eclipse Of The Heart: A Page From My Dairy
I narrowed my eyes and looked into the quaint sky to find the crestfallen blood Moon. But, Alas! I couldn’t see any celestial being there, neither the eclipse-d moon, nor a single star. The night had revealed in its bewitching aura, deathly dark was the overcast sky. I was all set with my cameras, ready […]
Disciplinarian Dad V/S. Dirt-free Diwali #CleanUpCashOut
Having a disciplinarian dad does take a toll over some of your dreams. 😉 One such is mine who admitted me in an ‘only-girls’ engineering college where phones were a strict ‘No-No!’ to avoid any kind of distractions in studies. What they only offered for some basic communication with our family, was an intercom […]
The Ice That Never Melted After Him
He was only 57 when he left this world without giving us any signals, any ultimatums. Just an hour before his demise, he was combing his hair for too long and my maa mocked him for his partial baldness. He smiled, looked into the mirror and said, “Don’t you think I’m the most handsome Nana […]
“Half Girlfriend?” ❣️ Well, Feelings Need No Fancy Names!
This is a winning post on Blogadda for the meet n greet Half Girlfriend contest! LOVE —> AFFAIR —> COMMITMENTS —> RELATIONSHIPS Are the above phases only relatable to the couples called ‘Boyfriend—Girlfriend’? Well, not really! Every passionate phase in life is synonymous to just one name and that is as simple and as pure […]
The Story of A Suicide: The Void beneath the Complex Mind
This post won first prize among 475 entries in Indiblogger’s ‘Story of a Suicide’ Book Review/ Indichange contest sponsored by Nalandaway! They ended their lives and I wondered, why? When I was a kid, I witnessed two women committing suicide under my vicinity. One of them, my neighbor’s wife, simply ended her life because […]
A Shakespearean Fool: An April Fool Five Sentence Fiction
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Breathless: Five Sentence Fiction
“Take a deep breath, hold it for a while, release it slowly and let me examine you to find the cause of your spasmodic griping pain”— the doctor told to her. “Let my husband go out of your chamber, then only I could do this breathing exercise”— she replied to the doctor with an irritated […]
Peppy Pixie & her Zica-licious Fantastico Fashion: Tata Tiago Car Review
“She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes;” ?? — Lord Byron Walking with grace and beauty, she entered into little Pixie’s life, like a fairy Godmother. Then our Pixie’s monotonous life turned into a peppy […]
Love & Beyond: He made an Impact!
“Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.” ― J.M. Barrie Love is the most transcendent feeling in this universe, ethereal than the air and sturdier than the rocks. And he proved it, that failing in love shouldn’t end up in falling in life. My father recited his story […]
FSF PART III: The Princess, Deathly Evil and the Incomplete Story!
After all the love and support bestowed upon our FSF Part I & FSF Part II, I’m truly thankful to all my readers from the bottom of my heart for your valuable response on this fiction series. Please do read this third as well as concluding part of this FSF (Fifteen Sentence Fiction) and kindly […]
FSF Part II: The Princess,the seductive charmer & the incomplete story!
Firstly I thank all my readers for their love and response on the Part I of my incomplete story (FSF). The way it grabbed attention of all the learned people on TSS makes me humbling. So, the part II of the story is quite influenced by the views shared by you all, in which, the […]
The Three Princes & the Incomplete Story: Five Sentence Fiction
The king and the queen were worried about their princess’ future as she was way too immature and innocent than her age and had an inclination towards evil and dreadful. When she turned out to be marriageable, there came three princes in her life— a Prince Charming, a Frog Prince and a Seductive Charmer. The […]
Love and Pebbles: Five Sentence Fiction
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FSF: The Black Coat, Bare Hands and the Modern-day Gift of Magi
A Five Sentence Fiction… On that scorching hot May morning, he was sweating profusely in his black lawyer’s coat, so she wiped his face softly with her hand laden with red glass bangles and said— “why don’t you buy an air conditioner for your chamber?” “No-no, I’ll rather buy gold bangles for you for which […]