Reign's End
By Anushka Das in True Story | Reads: 955 | Likes: 0
There it was. So beautiful , so pure. It’s mere presence radiated joyousness , it burst into perfect strands of raucous laughter. It’s aura lured, it’s beautiful spectre beckoned. It burned too brightly and if you got too close, you burned with it. It was so close and yet unreacha  Read More...
Published on May 17,2020 09:01 AM
Take me home
By Riya in Romance | Reads: 951 | Likes: 0
TAKE ME HOME Now I felt like asking what he wanted.”Good book”, he said never taking his eyes off me. “Yeah, sure is.”I said flatly. I kept my eyes on the book trying to avoid the only man left in the deserted metro. It was nearly midnight in Seattle but still there wasn&rsqu  Read More...
Published on Mar 31,2020 07:51 PM
An Airconditioned Extravaganza
By Archana Nair in General Literary | Reads: 947 | Likes: 0
With the heat soaring high taking a week end break was a blessing for Nina and her joint family of her husband, her naughty twins always onto redefining what's being naughty,and  her exceptionally lovable in-laws. They checked into the farmhouse of Sam's friend who was generous enough to hand o  Read More...
Published on Apr 21,2020 10:42 PM
Showering Thoughts
By Spandan Nath in Poetry | Reads: 945 | Likes: 0
When I stand in the shower, Unclothing ...wet scraps of linen, Naked and alone... Sometimes, stroking myself With the reminisce of you, softness! And water takes over Sliding through me, Filling chasms and eroding wholes tearless... Then, I wonder of unthought of thoughts!  I wonder if you hid  Read More...
Published on May 7,2020 11:02 PM
Love self
By Lisha Patnaik in Poetry | Reads: 945 | Likes: 0
She lost herself  Little by little, In search of warmth  Her heart filled With agony of laughter, Her owns spilled Words of fear Of being left out Love being not around Never finding it again. It’s not a person A concept of whom She built in heart That didn’t get fulfilled. If   Read More...
Published on May 24,2020 03:05 PM
MY LOCKDOWN BATTENBURG CAKE
By Mousumi Biswas in Humour & Comedy | Reads: 944 | Likes: 0
MY LOCKDOWN BATTENBURG CAKE ( My entry for the 3rd phase of the contest )       It all began while I was waiting for my turn in the waiting room at the  doctor's   clinic  few months before the lockdown . I was  flipping aimlessly through the pages of a glossy  Read More...
Published on May 25,2020 06:32 PM
Paying It Forward
By Dilip Patel in True Story | Reads: 942 | Likes: 0
At Asia Plateau, the International center for training and conferences of Initiatives of Change, Panchgani, India, we have privilege of coming across some amazing true stories from amazing people who come from all walks of life to undergo training in personal change. Here is a story, stranger than t  Read More...
Published on Apr 2,2020 11:20 PM
Trapped Soul
By Srinidhi in Poetry | Reads: 941 | Likes: 0
My soul feels trapped, in an invisible cage Wanting to break the shackles of this life's race  I am running at a hustling pace,  And honestly I don't know where to head in this puzzling maze  My soul craves to breathe in the free air flurry, For once it wants to feel the ecstatic epip  Read More...
Published on Mar 26,2020 08:15 AM
Digi-World
By Revti Singh in General Literary | Reads: 939 | Likes: 0
“Isn’t it yum?”, I looked at the face of my guy as he gulped his first forkful of the delicious creamy pasta, which I prepared after a hassle-full cooking session of one hour with my mom tuned in through a video chat. “Yes, no doubt about it, but…” That’s i  Read More...
Published on Apr 30,2020 03:00 PM
The best birthday gift
By Mousumi Biswas in General Literary | Reads: 939 | Likes: 0
My entry for the 3rd phase of the contest The  best birthday gift          Priti picked up her phone to check out on her mails and messages . She deleted the unnecessary ones . A  notification showed a friend request from one Sambhavi Shibu of ' Friends NGO ' . Pri  Read More...
Published on Jun 7,2020 10:51 PM
Rhyme of an apocalypse
By Arun Dev Kumar in Poetry | Reads: 938 | Likes: 0
It came knocking one day, without a call; like the storm uncalled, the trap of a trawl. Hooks like fangs that barge deep within; efface one and then a kin. An isle that was once life, in ecclesiastic peace; where oaks were shade with flowered streets. The clan that escalated, seized by riches; spoil  Read More...
Published on Apr 23,2020 09:00 PM
The escape room
By Manasvi Kumar in Poetry | Reads: 917 | Likes: 0
Nothing is felt here In the escape room Your mind isn't clear To save yourself from you But this escape room Just feels right When you need to escape From what you fright  You'll find many minds  Scraping their existence here When they're nowhere Else to find But this escape room Just f  Read More...
Published on May 6,2020 01:54 PM
The Wedding After The War
By Madhu Shruti Mukherjee in Poetry | Reads: 915 | Likes: 0
The Wedding after the War “Faster, you fool! Faster I say” In her wedding dress, bellowed Ms. Holloway. “I have no time; my lover’s coming back from the War We’ll get married today at that little chapel we both adore.” “How long does it take to gather daf  Read More...
Published on Apr 2,2020 07:43 PM
Home
By Raina in General Literary | Reads: 904 | Likes: 0
Dad’s first car didn’t have air conditioning. When it rained in the hills during the monsoons, the glass windows of the car turned into beautiful translucent canvases. I drew hearts on the condensed glass. Hearts and smileys and stars. As I grew up, dad bought more cars. They all had air  Read More...
Published on May 6,2020 10:23 PM
AMOUR
By Kuchi Sravya in Poetry | Reads: 903 | Likes: 0
Broken but beautiful; Or beautifully broken, Must I say? Love is the healer, they tell He got plenty of it, barmecidal But what if it is the cause of the wound?  A wound so deep,  the ocean's ashamed A wound so painful, I see a grim reaper A wound so severe, the scar lasts forever Broke  Read More...
Published on May 25,2020 01:57 PM
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