Drum beats
By Monita Priyadarshini in General Literary | Reads: 483 | Likes: 0
It was a new morning when she woke up, yet different from everyday since her birth. She was hearing drum beats, which was quite unusual. She began remembering her sister's marriage. No decorations, no sweets, only some drums beats and cries. "Why today?" , she thought. As she walked through the doo  Read More...
Published on Apr 30,2020 06:31 PM
Silent Nights
By Manaal Babu Adam in Poetry | Reads: 483 | Likes: 0
Hushed by the hoot of an owl, She sat gripping the hem of her skirt,  Wary of his footsteps, up and down,  Until the delicate lining hurt,  In their twentieth autumn daze,  Her words void of her say,  She picked up her broken pieces,  And spilled them on the fire ablaz  Read More...
Published on May 5,2020 03:24 PM
The tomorrow that never came
By Waving Flag in True Story | Reads: 482 | Likes: 0
Heart cried out to express the feelings. But the brain stood bold as usual, forcing the soul to lock down emotions and forcing the body to wear a mask. Was tired being someone else in front of her. Always said to self that you're gonna tell her tomorrow.  Little did he know about the devil in h  Read More...
Published on Apr 4,2020 07:18 PM
The last meeting
By mikhil scaria in Poetry | Reads: 481 | Likes: 0
This is our last meeting, and a bunch of people gathered here along with me. Do you really know them all?  Regular faces, strange entries, and unexpected sympathies. Shutterbugs annoys  with their flashes. You smell dead, but you look promising in this peace attire. Agony, pain, and moan o  Read More...
Published on Apr 30,2020 06:45 PM
Taking Charge
By Preeti Agrawal in Poetry | Reads: 481 | Likes: 0
                            Taking Charge Mother earth is taking charge. Reminding us to roar back to life Look around, every life is bursting joy As we learn, more we know how Fortunate we are now. Just feel a happy breathing Wit  Read More...
Published on May 12,2020 02:58 PM
A child's cry
By Aleena in General Literary | Reads: 474 | Likes: 0
"Amma. I'm hungry." Watching her little boy cry for food was not something Ragini ever wanted to see. He was merely four years old. How could she make him understand that they were basically stuck in the apartment? That his father had gone out looking for food three days back but never returned. Tha  Read More...
Published on Apr 3,2020 09:17 PM
Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da, Life Goes On
By R Chandrasekar in General Literary | Reads: 473 | Likes: 0
This lock-down doesn’t make much difference for septuagenarians like us. The major inconvenience we face may be the closed parks and trails where we used to enjoy our morning walks. Some of us, living in independent houses, are lucky to have an open terrace or a sizeable backyard for our walks  Read More...
Published on Apr 4,2020 11:22 AM
Born again
By Malika in Poetry | Reads: 466 | Likes: 0
It's time to be born again  To deconstruct the self I Isolate to elevate  The chrysalis is my armour It is pulchritudinous outside I'm sure A dreadful battle I fight inside My organs are now matter They no longer matter I am still breathing  How I don't know Caspases devour me I am st  Read More...
Published on May 21,2020 06:17 AM
The Cunning Masquerade
By Akul Anandur in Poetry | Reads: 463 | Likes: 0
The grin from her lips, she tries to end it all-Wombing the grief in her eyes, that’s ever unseen. Masquerades are always misleading,Covering that needs to be Exposed,And Uncovering that’s existent unnecessarily.Are these what we created?Or these what we’ve been bestowed? Nature&rs  Read More...
Published on May 3,2020 04:45 PM
The last call
By P Sarma in General Literary | Reads: 454 | Likes: 0
A sudden call in the evening, as we were sipping tea together like any other day where my father would be sharing his childhood memories, mother would be smiling hearing them and me along with my brother would join too. The last time I saw my mother was before she left for the hospital. It was just   Read More...
Published on Mar 28,2020 06:51 PM
Where Lilies fall
By Sreeju B in Romance | Reads: 452 | Likes: 0
  “Joseph, make sure that arch can stand the wind. Be careful.” Kevin requested the decoration supervisor as he entered the vibrant hall.                 Xavier’s recreational hall was getting ready for another event for the dawn. Facing  Read More...
Published on Apr 12,2020 06:48 PM
Near the Royal Poinciana Tree
By Payal Arun in Romance | Reads: 449 | Likes: 0
Aucky was getting late for college, she packed her lunchbox and surveyed her books. It was that time of early spring when she controlled her emotions for the guy who came to live in her neighborhood! He was tall, wheatish complexion guy of about 6 feet tall and had an athlete body. His rough looks a  Read More...
Published on May 4,2020 08:12 AM
jaane de mujhe
By UTSA in Romance | Reads: 447 | Likes: 0
Jaane De Mujhe First day of college, Adra entered the class room. She noticed a boy sitting alone on a bench. 'Hey! may I?'Arnab neither looked at her nor even replied. He just moved slightly making space for her. 'How weird he is?' She told to herself.She thought to introduce herself but done somet  Read More...
Published on May 28,2020 12:36 PM
SHE
By Ruchira Garai in Poetry | Reads: 447 | Likes: 0
You see her face in the crowd Embracing her semblance,  Battling the vicious world Quietly enduring the undeserved penance. She might be the one who was thrashed today,  or maybe, the one with a scar, Perhaps the one declared irrelevant or the one, whose body is at war.  Yet you see   Read More...
Published on May 31,2020 10:08 AM
That day !!
By Ravioli in Romance | Reads: 437 | Likes: 0
       She was on her way back to where she belongs to since three years ago. Even thought she loves to be around her family pronitha prefers to live away from them . For her tat was a cooked up reason that can make them miss her more.she believes, the life away from them has mad  Read More...
Published on Apr 28,2020 04:59 PM
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