Rude Mr. Red

There once lived a rude man in a lovely cottage just outside of town. His name was Mr. Red. And ...

jagged light: a short story

Shorojabala combed her long dark tresses slowly. The Jaba Kusum Hair Oil that had come with the month’s groceries from ...

The ironed shirts delivery: A short story

Mr. Brown was farsighted, a condition commonly referred to by an ophthalmologist as Hyperopia. That word, however, would have been ...

maloti’s world

the news came early morning. he was coughing again. a dagger plunged sharply just below her heart. maloti jolted with ...

the walls

there was no cognizance of time within its walls. there seemed to be no awareness almost of the time without ...

Secret Alliance – A short story

She was sitting at her table by the window. Her books spread out in front. A pen in her hand ...

when sunday invaded monday

"it is tyranny, i tell you, tyranny!" exclaimed the frog, leaping up all of a sudden from its thoughtfully reclining ...

upsidedownturn

"you can't go back…" whispered the summer wind brushing against my temple. "what? what did you say?" it was nine ...

nolen gur, balaclava, and bombs

“if you don’t want a child, just use nirodh!” said the ten year old. “nirodh!” there was awe and bursting ...
going back to school short story

What she learnt at school that day…: A short story

She had hoped to take the bus to the school, but as usual, had allowed herself to get distracted by ...

the girl called rhino

a wail rose up in the calm late afternoon air. the tail end of it came stalking into the room ...

headcount

ravan was chasing me. he had ten heads and ten faces and ten sets of teeth bared as he sprinted ...

on glinjerade rim

steam rose in quiet swirls from the tea cup. the sky was cloudy, a faint hint of tea leaf in ...

the red oxide floor

it looked like it was going to rain. flashes of lightning lit up the frosted window pane every now and ...

five feet of the snake

"unpalatable to the lord of death! forerunner of the monkeys!! you've seen five feet of the snake?? burnt face, low ...