Love Marriage Arranged Marriage
By Joy R Bhamre in Romance | Reads: 2,075 | Likes: 1
  It was a long time ago. Perhaps not really that long a time that I could tell you I was this carefree college girl in jeans or the junior college girl in the teensy miniskirt. I was really neither of those girls. I was the girl who believed in convention or rather believed that if I did step   Read More...
Published on Apr 28,2020 06:32 PM
The Ring of Siraj
By Abhishek Goswami in Thriller | Reads: 1,849 | Likes: 1
The loud sound of the window glass shattering to pieces woke up Shraboni from her slumber.She found Pandey Ji looking at the damaged window glass with a quizzical glance.Shraboni asked, “Pandey Ji, kya hua?Are those guys at it again?” Pandey Ji replied,”Who knows dear, these   Read More...
Published on Apr 16,2020 08:06 PM
The Rat Catcher’s Black Stone
By Durga Priyadarshini R in Thriller | Reads: 1,805 | Likes: 1
As the great bell chimed quarter to 9, I heaved a sigh of relief. Today was indeed tiring at Crunock’s Bakery, where we got hold of 24 live rats in less than four hours and it was Terry’s turn to dump the rats near river thames. So I quickly washed my hands, split the 2 shillings we earn  Read More...
Published on May 26,2020 05:14 AM
MY DAD's UNCLE
By Namitha Ravindran in General Literary | Reads: 1,794 | Likes: 1
One day I accompanied my parents to visit my dad's sick uncle. Initially I didn't want to go, my parents forced me into it like they do with all social arrangements. However this was one decision that they would regret for many years to come.  Now before the reader judges me too harshly, I woul  Read More...
Published on Apr 13,2020 06:58 PM
OMG! I JUST QUIT MY GOVERNMENT JOB!
By M. T. Kharawala in Humour & Comedy | Reads: 1,791 | Likes: 1
OMG!!! I JUST QUIT MY ‘GOVERNMENT’ JOB!!   So, what’s the great deal? One may ask. Who cares…..someone will comment. Dude, people quit jobs every day…..anyone else might say……Government job sucks…..could be the parting blow!  Well,   Read More...
Published on Apr 23,2020 05:35 PM
My native, magic to be felt by senses.
By Mugdha Gujar in General Literary | Reads: 1,536 | Likes: 1
Being born in Konkan is enjoying heaven on earth.  Summer comes with bringing in especially Hapus mangoes.  You can't stop eating them for breakfast, lunch and dinner. (P.s. The mangoes ate in between do not count.) The best way to savour it's taste is eating that full mango with your bar  Read More...
Published on May 24,2020 04:16 PM
Maxwell and Ummachi
By R Chandrasekar in True Story | Reads: 1,486 | Likes: 1
Maxwell and Ummachi “Thatha, you are a pencil,” so saying she shrieked gleefully and did a somersault on the sofa. “Pattu, you shouldn’t say such things to big people,” my daughter chided her. Sreya just stared at her mother and rolled her eyes with her face turned upwa  Read More...
Published on Apr 28,2020 08:15 PM
Conversation between two souls
By kumaresh in Romance | Reads: 1,430 | Likes: 1
"It rained, not on earth but on my heart" he fumbled his thoughts to capture nice lines for her. She was wearing a deep blue saree that day all he could see is "She incarnated herself as the mother nature". He spelled out the words carefully that day to stamp her with his beautiful words. "What in t  Read More...
Published on Apr 28,2020 10:22 PM
The Great Monsoon
By Abhishek Mohan in Romance | Reads: 1,367 | Likes: 1
Anjali : The sky was black. The weather forecasted heavy rain today and for once their forecast became true. We got on the first bus. Sruthi and I took seats on the front.  “ You didn't have to behave like that.” Sruthi said. “ Like what.”  “ You hate Charlie,  Read More...
Published on Mar 31,2020 07:59 PM
Happy Waiting
By The Poet in Poetry | Reads: 1,324 | Likes: 1
Do the birds sing? Does the moon have light? Do angels have wings? The poet came along, He made us believe in it.   So why don’t you wait too? Let the poet come along and say, Yes, Soulmate’s exist too.   Until then, Happy waiting!!  Read More...
Published on Apr 11,2020 07:00 PM
Love Lost for Life, and U-turn
By Dilip Patel in True Story | Reads: 1,306 | Likes: 1
Here is a true story from Meghalaya, a North-Eastern state of India.   I met Nipon Hajong, a young civil servant at Panchgani in the year 2013. He was one of the delegates at the training program for civil servants of Meghalaya we were facilitating.   As such we do not get to learn more   Read More...
Published on Apr 14,2020 01:29 PM
The Child
By Urja dhawan in Supernatural | Reads: 1,280 | Likes: 1
I'm waiting for Mommy to come home -fast! I can't wait for the news. I'm sitting beside the staircase on the floor with my knees folded ,looking outside the door. It's hot. How long will she take? I glance at the clock in the opposite room through the open window.  It has been an hour. She must  Read More...
Published on May 26,2020 11:02 PM
In a room full of people, I love you.
By Mayukh in Romance | Reads: 1,258 | Likes: 1
"You know how you're supposed to feel all tingly and romantic when he says "I love you" to you the first time?Well, I didn't. I panicked.We were in a room full of people, people who were my close friends - it was a small party- but no one knew we had been dating for a while. The secretiveness of it   Read More...
Published on Apr 3,2020 04:49 PM
Poor, poor - Alia!
By Priyan R Naik in Crime | Reads: 1,256 | Likes: 1
I had traveled with them in the train from Hubli to Bangalore. Both mother and daughter - the daughter very garrulous, the mother taciturn and silent but always responsive to whatever her daughter had to say. Alia, the mother called her, was about 22 years, rather short but very communicative, with   Read More...
Published on Apr 27,2020 07:49 PM
A Missed Date with Ruskin Bond
By Suvankar Ghosh Roy Chowdhury in Romance | Reads: 1,107 | Likes: 1
I was going to meet Ruskin Bond in a few hours, and my joy knew no bounds. It was 2006, I had just started my UG-days at Narendrapur. Those were my Ruskin Bond-days. The rest of the authors I read that time – from Chaucer to Ted Hughes, in the history of literature – did not make much se  Read More...
Published on Apr 3,2020 01:58 PM
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