Mashed potatoes embarrassed cries
By Ankita Sirker in True Story | Reads: 993 | Likes: 0
I pretended to not know my father while on a flight to Dibrugarh. Don’t judge me yet. I’ll explain exactly why I did what I did. Year 2009: It was a beautiful windy morning here at Kolkata, in the month of December. Christmas, new year and chilly winter mornings – it was that time   Read More...
Published on Mar 28,2020 11:00 PM
Vacation untaken
By Neema Kumari in True Story | Reads: 993 | Likes: 0
My granny, in her late 70s, was an active lady. Not ready to sit at home idly and take rest. Here at the young age, we are dealing with white hairs and she still had black hairs in the sea of white hairs. Her eyebrows still black. Every time she called me, she would ask, "Don't you miss the village?  Read More...
Published on Mar 31,2020 09:48 AM
What would my tombstone say?
By L.M.A in General Literary | Reads: 992 | Likes: 0
Somedays are just beautiful.Unexplainable. I wouldn't change a thing. If I could frame it. I'd probably would.Like those picture frames in Harry Potter films that has an instance stored in it. If it were up to me, I'd save the whole day.Then, some days are bad. Some get worse.But the worst of them,   Read More...
Published on May 25,2020 07:35 PM
90s - The Simpler Times
By Sumedha Srivastava in General Literary | Reads: 991 | Likes: 0
Today as I'm skipping through the old photo albums, I realize how those camera shots captured on celluloid actually open the magical door to nostalgia. Some of these pictures have gone withered by time. Some are now dusted with remembrance.  Time is a strange feeling. It flies by like an unstop  Read More...
Published on Jun 10,2020 11:47 PM
A love affair with English .
By vaibhi narang in Romance | Reads: 990 | Likes: 0
I always had love for you my area of life,career,knowledge.You cleansed me from the crowd and filled me with wisdom. You have acted as a charmer and a star on my shirt which differentiates me from the herd.Unlike people, you have and will always stand by me when nothing else stays. I find leisure an  Read More...
Published on Apr 1,2020 01:19 PM
Living half a dream
By chinmoyuri in General Literary | Reads: 990 | Likes: 0
The last 4 years were not easy for me. I counted each passing day with a heavy heart. I remember the pact we made to go to art school in Paris after we finish school, to live our new dream to fly.   He was not very happy with his strict military family. He was different from them .They were dis  Read More...
Published on Apr 6,2020 02:35 AM
Happier
By Dishari in General Literary | Reads: 990 | Likes: 0
"Don't you miss me anymore? You seem to be happy nowadays. Things weren't the same that day.", said Meena. Scared, Sheetal's eyes flew open. That was just a dream. A bad dream. Or maybe the reality! She couldn't understand rather she didn't want to understand.  Sheetal was eighteen. Meena was h  Read More...
Published on Apr 12,2020 10:17 PM
Cold/Mess
By anisha joshi in Romance | Reads: 990 | Likes: 0
4.45 am my phone rings.  I was half asleep but the blurred sight of your name brings back too many memories to be viewed with my eyes closed. My heart which I  think probably went numb years ago starts beating faster than the wings of a baby bird's first flight. I pick up the phone excited  Read More...
Published on May 9,2020 02:48 PM
Routine
By Boomika Vellaiyan in True Story | Reads: 990 | Likes: 0
Everyday, one cup gets broke. Not by mistake. It is very much my blatant action. Ma keeps saying, "you should learn to do everything if you want to live on your own." Ma knows, I’m the only one who always served her hot cup of tea or coffee in the late weary evening on her work days and otherw  Read More...
Published on May 13,2020 11:45 AM
An Unanswered Dusk
By piya in General Literary | Reads: 989 | Likes: 0
The metal beneath her bare feet felt tempting, trying. Unlike her sour body, heavy and stinking of pain. Her world still dizzy, she positioned herself for where she knew her destiny was, as a hundred echoes bounced about inside her hazy head. Soon another from the distance. The long day was drawn. T  Read More...
Published on Apr 26,2020 12:32 PM
Falling
By tarun sharma in General Literary | Reads: 986 | Likes: 0
If you fall too often in life, Then, Getting up becomes, just a "reflex" !  Read More...
Published on May 7,2020 09:55 AM
UNKNOWN
By Aarthi Jayaprakash in Poetry | Reads: 985 | Likes: 0
This weight is not easily lifted A nagging ache, an unknown fear What will or will not happen? Not knowing is both bliss and curse So hold on to what you know Your worth in forged memories Your purpose in a hopeful future There's more to life than we know Stay in faith till then The ache shall sleep  Read More...
Published on Mar 25,2020 08:56 PM
Memoirs of memories
By Snehashree in Poetry | Reads: 985 | Likes: 0
Memoirs of memories I was a small girl then, when rivers were different from seas. I did not know then, that I laughed like the tinkle bells, and cried like the clamouring blades of colliding swords. Life was soothing then, when I could count the moving shadows of buses passing the hot, pitch roads,  Read More...
Published on Apr 26,2020 12:44 PM
Shades of love
By kanika in Poetry | Reads: 984 | Likes: 0
They keep on saying Go with the flow,  Let it go,  Life always have something more,  Put all in vain, all in pain I fail to understand,  How not to let it grow You healed and put things back together,  Thought this could go forever,  So I held on to you,  You were  Read More...
Published on May 6,2020 07:07 PM
Ugly truth
By snowfy amirtha in Poetry | Reads: 984 | Likes: 0
I saw a man.  Full of confident and modest. Surrounded by positive vibe.  Stronger and gentle   Smiling and innocent Sweetest and coolest Dressed like Greek God with the manly breeze  But who knows  He's a devil dressed as an angel  When I looked closer I  saw  Read More...
Published on May 7,2020 10:36 AM
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