Tears of calm

Her calm demeanour startled him. “Are you alright?” he asked alarmingly. She looked at him, but tears blinded her. “I hope I...

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Steps for career, love and marriage

Coming from someone who is presumed aimless for renouncing all career goals and aspirations for a life of domestication and erstwhile languor,...

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Social service

I’m not moody. I don’t throw tantrums. I only try to check peoples’ adaptability to change. It is social service. Understand? (You...

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Fishing Mom

When Papa is out of town and the normally achingly tyrant and junk-food resisting Mom is fishing to earn some brownie points from...

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Etiquette and boundaries

A is out for a reunion with his college friends this weekend and on the day he leaves, the tube in our...

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One line story #6

They had signed on for a week of adventurous revelry, but their lives were now hanging by a bleak invisible thread.  

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The Afterlife

We are all aware of that consuming gripping distress that envelops our being when any bad news hits us, be it with...

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Bespoke temptations

When some bespoke insatiable temptations hold all the other senses ransom till they are blessed with their coveted reward and the mind...

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