Short Stories
Eclipsed and Exiled
This short story was published in Rigorous, an international literary magazine. Inspection - your most dreaded day of the month. It’s not that you…
When Death Whispered Hope
The familiar swish of paper floats in from the adjoining room and I look up from my laptop. A half-smile irons out the furrows of…
Poetry
Soul Craft – October Poetry Contest
Prompt: This Dusshehra, what would you like to rid your life of? My entry was adjudged a winner. As the curtains descend on the…
Locked Longings
This poem was published in The Wise Owl litmag in December, 2024. The chipped raw wood door to my heart lies bolted with a…
Flash Fiction
The Ride
This was among the nine stories selected globally (and the only one from Asia) for the Wordrunner eChapbooks Micro Prose Issue of October, 2024 …
Of Pearly Pinks and Glorious Gold
Paritosh rested against the grille of his balcony, holding his prized DSLR camera - a gift from Ronit - as the captivating Garhwal Himalayas loomed…
Book Reviews
Recipe for a Perfect Marriage by Women’s Web
Recipe for a Perfect marriage, the recently published annual offering of Women’s Web, is an anthology of 25 stellar short stories curated carefully from a…
Xanadu – Three Souls Searching for their Paradise, by Harshita Nanda
A story reads best when it is fuelled by real life experiences and steered forward by vivid imagination, as Xanadu, the debut novella of Harshita…
