Category Archives: Fiction

Divine Justice

‘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…

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Arising from the Dust

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!…

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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…

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Blind date

  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…

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Crab

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…

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cardinal

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…

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Lunar Eclipse

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…

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cashify phones

  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…

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Late Daya Shanker Mishra, my father

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…

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Half Girlfriend movie 2017

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…

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The Story of A Suicide

  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?…

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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…

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zica

“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…

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love and beyond

“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…

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FSF hallucinations

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…

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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…

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five sentence fiction fsf the style symphony

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.…

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coat

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…

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