Choices
By Alisha in General Literary | Reads: 666 | Likes: 1
  He slammed the door shut and threw himself on the bed, raging with hurt anger. Steven had never felt so angry before. This was anger dominated by pain. Who were they to tell him what he should and shouldn't do? How could they determine his life? Seventeen-year-old Steven lay agonized, his cu  Read More...
Published on May 28,2020 12:51 PM
GOD'S WILL
By Debarati Nandan in Poetry | Reads: 656 | Likes: 1
While the World is learning to cope with fear, God has taken control of the steer. The melody of birds and the rattling trees, Welcomes Spring with the passing breeze. An unknown silence is in this air, Peaceful calmness fills the atmosphere. Noone to disturb this blissful gathering, Nature can now   Read More...
Published on Mar 25,2020 07:19 PM
Freedom awaits
By Riya Kaushik in Poetry | Reads: 645 | Likes: 1
Is it a catastrophe or a curse come true? Wondered the young girl looking at their rue We have hurt the soul of earth, that's so very true, But can't we expect a miracle to happen, out of the blue? Says a desire that thrives deep within me "Won't we get a chance to feel once again free?" A thing ha  Read More...
Published on May 27,2020 01:46 PM
A Lesson hopefully well learnt from Nature
By Deepa in Poetry | Reads: 644 | Likes: 1
Mother Nature, She is our friend, parent, and teacher. She cares and she gives, but she needs time to replenish. The world needed a break and she gave us one. The world needed a lesson and she gave us one. For all our actions she revealed the hidden consequences, and we have stayed locked up, in f  Read More...
Published on Jun 5,2020 10:29 AM
That took away her halcyon days
By Rohan Dutta in Poetry | Reads: 632 | Likes: 1
The drenched greenish thin pillow, And the sumptuous flower vase broken, With the photo album opened , And the whole room cluttered, Hinted at her unrelenting sadness... Hugged the photoframe to her heart, With incessant sobs her voice totally broke, Those unkempt hair and her blocked nose, Teard  Read More...
Published on Apr 13,2020 12:42 PM
Him
By Aditi Banerjee in Romance | Reads: 627 | Likes: 1
"Do you have a coin?"  I looked to my left and stared at the boy, confused. I couldn't help but notice the decreased distance between us. He must have moved closer while I was busy looking at the lake, thinking about everything and nothing. "Yeah, sure." I said, realising I was mute for too lon  Read More...
Published on Apr 30,2020 07:01 PM
The Modern Ancients
By Roopini in True Story | Reads: 624 | Likes: 1
In the world of science and technology gaining it's highest of momentum.Equality is still an unending debate.Untouchability is a sin.But in today's world "modern untouchability is a tradition". (phone rings)picks up the phone and says(surprisingly) oh really.Thank you. I will come and pick her up no  Read More...
Published on Jun 3,2020 07:43 PM
Menstruation, voice of every woman
By Ruksar Rosy in General Literary | Reads: 620 | Likes: 1
It was 12 at night. She felt an unbearable pain, an ache in her abdomen and gradually realising that blood flowing out of her body. She went to her mother frighteningly and mother persisted her its a natural process, every woman should go through it. The very next morning she was ascribed with some  Read More...
Published on Apr 5,2020 06:52 PM
Broken
By sukhmani anand in General Literary | Reads: 620 | Likes: 1
  HE SAT ON THE WINDOW LEDGE, IN A SHADED CORNER OF HIS ROOM, TRYING TO THINK OF SOMEWAY HE COULD REDEEM HIMSELF IN HER EYES. Days and nights had passed; he could not make peace with himself. There was a storm howling outside the window that had uprooted trees and displace tiny l  Read More...
Published on Apr 21,2020 11:28 PM
Love and the War
By Eswar Tavva in True Story | Reads: 619 | Likes: 1
LOVE AND THE WAR I was a young lieutenant in the Indian army when I got posted in the North-Eastern part of India. The topography of this region is mountainous and densely covered with forests. Militant organisations were very active in the area I got posted at and most of the villages were militant  Read More...
Published on Apr 7,2020 10:05 AM
Paneer pasanda
By Neema Kumari in Humour & Comedy | Reads: 617 | Likes: 1
One month was almost over. Raghav's training in the season was on full swing. Whole morning he will look for different recipes from the cookery books and evening his real task would start. He would lay all the spices in front of him- turmeric powder, coriander powder, amchur, salt, garam masala, mus  Read More...
Published on Jun 9,2020 06:42 PM
Cuckoo's Nest
By Josily Achamma Mathew in Fantasy | Reads: 614 | Likes: 1
One day the cuckoo decided to start his own family with his only girlfriend miss cookie. But little did he know that it was going to be such a big tragedy. Seeing all the other birds having eggs and nests he fantasized of one of his own. He decided the deepest desire to his parents, and on an autumn  Read More...
Published on Apr 24,2020 09:05 PM
When they were happy, when they were sad
By Aashi Krishnatray in Poetry | Reads: 612 | Likes: 1
Once I was running, with a feeling amazing, Happiness tingling and sadness fading. Then I stopped, stood there for a while, And looked behind. No one was there, For me when I was happy, For me when I was sad. & I thought- Have I left loved ones behind? In this run of mine. Where I wasn’  Read More...
Published on Jun 13,2020 11:12 PM
Beyond the City Lights
By Unnati in Poetry | Reads: 603 | Likes: 1
A red building, ambience lightedInhabited by people, yet fully vacantThe jingling bangles laugh and hauntSmirk miserably, often release a sighTheir ringing have a melancholic tauntDeafs confuse it to be "visit again,bye"The tresspassers there are varied menSome new faces, some people oldFor it is a   Read More...
Published on May 30,2020 07:06 PM
My quest
By Priyanka Hazra in Poetry | Reads: 596 | Likes: 1
My sagacious poesy richocheted the plane of paper, and asked me to make it ⁣⁣⁣fly over the heaven. ⁣⁣⁣ It made me awestruck.⁣⁣⁣ I feared if it will come to know the essence of flying, then I won't be able to ⁣⁣⁣ hold it in the ground.⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ So, I resisted.⁣⁣  Read More...
Published on Apr 1,2020 12:34 PM