A little bit confused
By Riya Shah in Poetry | Reads: 805 | Likes: 0
I often wonder what it's like to be composed, be oriented. But I guess I'm not the only one so clouded. Do you find yourself constantly struggling  to unscramble? Your thoughts,  words or even your dreams! There's always some sort of chaos around yet everything seems so void. While we're c  Read More...
Published on May 8,2020 06:02 PM
A DAYSPRING VIEW
By Ruchira Garai in Poetry | Reads: 802 | Likes: 0
Hazel eyes, a crooked smile That was my every morning's sight Furtive glances, a crimson flush Blew away the webs of a dull summer night ; Once a night owl,  Now waited for the dawn, Tiptoeing to the terrace with a coffee mug Was the first task of my morn'.  The birds chirped, the clouds m  Read More...
Published on May 31,2020 10:16 AM
DOGS OF WAR
By Natesan Ramalingam Iyer in Humour & Comedy | Reads: 801 | Likes: 0
A major issue cropped up in my Condo in Singapore between families having pet dogs and those not having pet dogs. Our Condo consists of 7 Towers. It started with those not having pet dogs complaining that passenger lifts should not be used for walking the dogs; it leaves a bad odor in the lift cabin  Read More...
Published on Apr 22,2020 06:47 PM
My Diary of 1971 - Living thru War-Sunday is Special!
By Ratna Pande in True Story | Reads: 798 | Likes: 0
Day 4: Sunday morning is always special. We usually have a South Indian meal for lunch and chicken curry for dinner and I like both. The ladies in the colony learnt to make authentic South Indian dishes, courtesy Mrs Uma Ramaswamy. Uma aunty is the loving mom of my friend and our neighbour who has p  Read More...
Published on Apr 12,2020 11:14 AM
The room of one's own
By Namrata Mukherjee in General Literary | Reads: 795 | Likes: 0
A rented room in an apartment of a fast moving city. The original floor colour and pattern are lost in the quagmire of layers of dirt and various stationery strewn all over. The only source of light, the window, remains closed for days on end. The dim fluorescent bulb hanging from the ceiling has li  Read More...
Published on May 31,2020 12:03 PM
Fire in the sky
By Andrew Rajkumar in Mystery | Reads: 794 | Likes: 0
Once there lived a king named Uzur (meaning "life" in Tamil). He ruled a small region in southern region of ancient Tamil Nadu. Once Uzur went into his city, in disguise in order to find out whether his subjects face any problems under his rule. He talked to every civilian he met and gathered detail  Read More...
Published on Apr 19,2020 12:55 AM
St Antony & a Quiet Sunday
By Anilkumar Kurup in General Literary | Reads: 779 | Likes: 0
  The boat ride back from the island seemed swift. I jumped out on to the wharf that was feet and a half above the deck and unknowingly and perhaps appearing to ignore the rest of the women folk extended my hand to her to hold and hoist up on to the wharf. That chivalry apparently did not go u  Read More...
Published on Apr 16,2020 11:47 AM
If Ever
By Preeti in Poetry | Reads: 775 | Likes: 0
If Ever... If ever you fall, May that be only in love.// If ever you cry, May that be only in happiness. // If ever you stumble,  May it be a stepping stone. // If ever you break, May it be a leg. // If ever you are last, May it be saved for the best. // If ever you fail, May it be a path  Read More...
Published on Apr 3,2020 10:24 PM
What breaks, makes too
By priyanka rajpurohit in Poetry | Reads: 767 | Likes: 0
Why Togetherness is celebrated , And the Departures are hated? Why hello’s are adored, And why good-bye’s abhorred? Why staying brings deep smile, While leaving makes one revile? Those shedding leaves,that shooting star!  The half cut tree and the plucked flower, Every hold on is no  Read More...
Published on Jun 4,2020 05:19 PM
Barbed
By ananya in Poetry | Reads: 766 | Likes: 0
A thousand blades may wound your heart, The last strings of hope you cling to so painfully bleeds out like the wail of a lover loved and lost. All alone you lie in that sewer, covered in the stench of their mockery, the dirt of their words . Darkness clouds those damned eyes. But roar back dear hear  Read More...
Published on May 24,2020 03:03 PM
THE ENLARGED DREAM
By SATADAL LAHIRI in Romance | Reads: 761 | Likes: 0
Namita rushed down the staircase of her single bedroom rented house to meet the other nursing staff downstairs. The small nursing home that she and the other girls in her colony had been attached to, had suddenly been receiving a deluge of patients. The pandemic had been slowly tightening its viciou  Read More...
Published on Apr 13,2020 10:38 AM
ROOH-e-RUMI
By Mamta Sehgal in Poetry | Reads: 755 | Likes: 0
Do not grieve for your rusty, iron heart. HE will polish it to a steel mirror. And as you are being lowered into the ground, closed away from your friends, don’t cry. HE turns the ants and the snakes into beautiful new companions. –RUMI  Read More...
Published on Mar 29,2020 03:37 PM
Tale of Shining Armour
By garima bapna in Romance | Reads: 755 | Likes: 0
She was running upside down on the walls of his home, breathing and sweating heavily like someone was following her, pleading with her eyes for mercy and freedom.Wearing a beautiful dress which was abruptly ruptured, that glorious skin having brutal marks all over her body. Those silky hairs messed   Read More...
Published on Apr 4,2020 11:10 AM
Price of love.
By Saba Hussaini in Mystery | Reads: 749 | Likes: 0
I'm at a bookstall, enquiring how the book I saw a couple of minutes before is missing from the shelf. The shop manager tells me, the boy walking past the park just bought it. I quicken my pace towards him and walk alongside. A minute and a half later, he stops. "Hey, I'm the guy who lives down the   Read More...
Published on Apr 27,2020 06:32 PM
Hymn for the Dead
By Shama Dinesh in Poetry | Reads: 743 | Likes: 0
The night time terror reigned the streets At the brink of death, humanity retreats Distress weaving its way inside In the awakening of the Grim Reaper’s bride   Desperate, shall you look into the mirror Stare into the eyes of the demons of hunger Humanity is fading, suffering, and dying Y  Read More...
Published on Apr 6,2020 08:55 PM
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