The Frame

On her ninth birthday, Roshena’s father gifted her a photo frame, knowing her habit of photographing anything thing to everything that caught her fancy. It wasn’t a very costly gift but still it looked good. It was silvery gray in color, with some petals and leaves forming symmetric patterns on the corners. After receiving it [...]

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The courtyard

It was that time of the day when a little rain and few clouds make the sun give everything around a dusty look. Sitting at one end was Grandma enjoying the weather and watching the mundane everyday affair. Children were playing in the courtyard, with Mala shouting, asking them to go and play outside.
“Shanu! Go [...]

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A Lie

At the dawn of 24th century the world had gone very advanced. Advanced to the level that the word advanced no longer did justice to whatever it sought to describe. It all started a century back with the success of Richbard Downking’s Neural geneprop project. It paved the way for successfully transmitting information via genes [...]

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The Customer

He comes everyday. Same table, same corner , same order, same direction, same face and the same strangeness of it. He had been visiting our cafe for the past one and a half week. 15th of April was the day when he came for the first time. He’s always alone, always sitting on the same [...]

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Memories

The paragraph which sent him back searching for his school time memories read like that:
..The advent of the monsoon was exciting- and it was always like this with the first big storm, even in his earliest memories back at a time when the torrential rain concided with the new school year, new books, new friends…
As [...]

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Time troubles

He snapped the book shut and got out of the bed. Feeling hungry he moved towards the kitchen. Wondering what time it was he took the cell phone out of his pocket. It showed 00:59 but, just as time had sinked through his eyes to the brain, the pixels shifted their positions. It now showed [...]

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Half a day

22 Sep, 17:49
As he stepped out of the office his mobile beeped. It was a reminder for his meeting with the doctor. He dismissed the reminder and hurried onto the car. He waited for a few minutes in his car as the little disturbance of ppl getting their cars out of the parking died out. [...]

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Doomed to dirt

Mr Kumar was returning to his home after an over trying day in the office. As he neared his place, a filthy pavement by the side of his right window reminded him of a painful development that took place few days back.
He hasn’t still not come to terms thought that he would be living in [...]

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The Ceremony

They were six of them all six year olds standing in a row. The room was dark and they were holding each other’s hands. Though there was a hint of light out thr but just enough to make out the movement of silhouettes.
The reason for darkness was may be that when the lightning strikes it [...]

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Birthday

It had been an eventful morning in Sharma family today. Mrs Sharma had been in the thick of the things as she had to ready up three family members instead of the usual two. From today rahul starts his schooling.
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“Ah! What are you doing Rahul” Enquires Mrs sharma as she walks towards Rahul.
“Shoes, Mom”.
“But you [...]

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Just a vague thought

Slowly he opened his eyes and things started coming into focus. The place looked dark and few things were moving here and there. Every thing looked absurd, those things appeared and disappeared without any apparent reason. Not sure what those things were he assumed them to be some kind of species.
Suddenly he realized is [...]

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Morning mishap

*Beep*..*Beep*..*Beep*..*Beep*..*Be…
He half opens his eyes, his left hand still on the alarm clock. It was all dark around him, not even a hint of light.
*Bang*..*Bang*..
He stops just as his hand was about to hit the alarm clock again. Anguished he curses Mrs. Desai, the head mistress of the house.
He hates it when she changes the [...]

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How i wish..

It was getting late at night. He was lying on his bed and reading something. Though it had been half an hour, he hadn’t gone through even four pages. And now if you had called him then and asked abt the book he was reading, he definitely would have looked at the [...]

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