by Mohamed Mohaou Why were you late, Omar? Remember to be on time. It is 8h15 a.m. now. Never blame the bus for your delay. Sit down correctly. This is the first thing they should have taught you in primary school. Greet everybody before you sit down. No, Omar! Don’t […]
Fiction
The View
by Prarthana JA The view from the kitchen window was miniscule but pretty. Urvi could see a patch of sky through a single branch of a gulmohar tree that snaked across. That is all. The window was small but large enough for the neighbors cat to get in and out. […]
The Boy Who Ate Glass
by Tejaswinee Roychowdhury I rounded up a few of the young village boys and prepared to take Madan on his final journey. It was customary for the families of the dead to do this but Madan had no family, well, except for the village where he breathed his first and […]
Paradoxical Love!
by Swarnasankha Acharjee Subhangi is one of the most cheerful and lively girls you will ever come across. She is currently in her bachelor’s. A girl who is loved by all in the colony. She is quite pretty as well. Straight long lustrous hairs reached her lower back. Her eyes […]
Happy Hour
by Terry Wynne Dusk had settled into the glass and chrome and cement cityscape. Harry had put in a solid day of writing advertising copy, meetings, preparing for presentations. As far as he was concerned, he had earned that pint of Guinness at Mulligan’s. He was on his way to […]
Nightfall and the Cuban Tango
by Steve Carr In the Casa De La Danza, young women in hues of pink, orange, and green slinky satin dresses sit in a row of chairs along one wall. They look like different flavored shaved ices melting in the heat of the ballroom. The blades of the ceiling fans […]
Ficfun
by Rabindra Soni “What is the name of your paper “? Asked he. ” Ficfun sir, ficfun.” Said a student pronouncing the letter ‘s’ as ‘f’ perhaps had some difficulty. I wasn’t interested in their little talk so I got on my work and then I didn’t pay any attention […]
The Ride!
by Swarnasankha Acharjee Over the past decade, I have grown up as a young writer of the state. Quite a few books of mine have gone on to become bestsellers. I have specifically established myself in the genre of ghost stories and books. As a child, I loved reading ghost […]
The Open Drawer
by Ranjit Kulkarni When she bent down to clean the floor beneath, her eyes were drawn towards that drawer again. The drawer was open when the bell rang. She knew what was inside it. She took a deep breath. “Shanthamma, give the keys to the driver,” she heard from the […]
King of Hearts and Queen of Love
by Amrita Valan “Raja ko Rani se Pyar Ho Gaya, (The King has fallen for his queen), the mushy love song from a nineties Hindi movie played cloyingly somewhere. My mind dove into a cocoon of spun silk memories listening to the lilting refrain. Growing up in an Indian milieu […]