Yesterday’s Stars

Yesterday, just after the sun had waved goodbye, and the evening breeze gave way to a clear sky, there up above the world so high were stars. And not just a lone or two but enough for my fingers to fall short of counting. The sky hasn't been the same ever since the lockdown set...

The Darkness Of Truth

Unbearing as it may seen, Truth is the darkness we pass through to reach the light. Darkness, they say is nothing but the absence of light and while the world preaches this motivational cliché the individual yet remains unaware. Our social media accounts are a visible display of how comfortable we are with lies. We...

2020 – The Jumanji Year

Every morning I wake up hoping that 'today we all will be thrown out of a gaming console' back to the good old world of pollution and traffic jams. It was a wonderful world. It was killing us of-course and finally, we all would have died but it was like arsenic - slow silent and...

Kitchen Horrors

The icebox clattered in the night He stood there in plain sight I wondered why, does he hold a lantern, He replied, “Girl, I couldn’t find the cinnamon!” But darling why do you need a spice, Remember, you are as dead as ice. But sweetheart, they never found my body… ‘cause I threw it down...

Paper Cuts

She sat in front of the blank sheet wondering where to start. She looked at the variety of pens on the desk. He rarely wrote nowadays, most of his works were directly typed on his laptop. The writer’s desk was just for photo-ops with the media. Yet somehow every day he managed to clutter the...

Budhan

Writing Flash Fiction after a long long time. The dry leaves had not been trodden for years. The ground kept giving birth to more and moreover the years. It was like a population explosion. No one would sweep them off the grass anymore. Wild shrubs, creeper hanging over the golden Amaltas trees, which stubbornly stood...

Sleepless Sunrise

trading midnight to insomnialazy eyelids refuse to closesomewhere in a distant echothe nightjar sings a sleepy prosewitching hour engulfsthe witch lays fidgetingas dark room plummetsinto a never ending black hole city lights twinklelike firefly's luminescencefading into twilightjust a step before dawnopening eyesinto the morning chilllike a clandestine loverreturning homeblushed in shades of pinkthe sleepless sun...

Tenant Takeover

Lockdown 2020 has seen nature heal and takeover spaces that we humans had encroached upon, What if the takeover happens in a part of your own home and that too in your happy space?

Epilogue – Closures of a different kind

Words flow into blank pages creating inkblots of stories, Smudges of characters and twists of punctuation Pre-positioned chapters and then life happens… In details of time, a story lost, giving away the plot The ghostwriter takes charge, rips away the story’s heart In details of time, a story lost, giving away the plot Scribbles on...

For the Foolish Heart

1 Affairs of the foolish heart Passionate tangles of Spring and Fall Unusual promises ‘till death do us apart” Affairs of the foolish heart ‘Happily ever after’ like a game of darts Blunt arrows fly and hit the wall Affairs of the foolish heart Passionate tangles of Spring and Fall 2 I stepped into the...