THE ENLARGED DREAM
By SATADAL LAHIRI in Romance | Reads: 933 | Likes: 0
Namita rushed down the staircase of her single bedroom rented house to meet the other nursing staff downstairs. The small nursing home that she and the other girls in her colony had been attached to, had suddenly been receiving a deluge of patients. The pandemic had been slowly tightening its viciou  Read More...
Published on Apr 13,2020 10:38 AM
If Ever
By Preeti in Poetry | Reads: 930 | Likes: 0
If Ever... If ever you fall, May that be only in love.// If ever you cry, May that be only in happiness. // If ever you stumble,  May it be a stepping stone. // If ever you break, May it be a leg. // If ever you are last, May it be saved for the best. // If ever you fail, May it be a path  Read More...
Published on Apr 3,2020 10:24 PM
I'm not a writer but I write
By Iram Fatima in Poetry | Reads: 930 | Likes: 0
I'm not a writer but I write , Sometimes, let the paper be your partner and the pen be your words , And let the words dwell on the paper in the same way the stars festoon the night sky.  I'm not a writer but I write , Let the ink be your sword and the paper be your shield , Guarding you from e  Read More...
Published on Apr 27,2020 05:23 AM
What breaks, makes too
By priyanka rajpurohit in Poetry | Reads: 923 | Likes: 0
Why Togetherness is celebrated , And the Departures are hated? Why hello’s are adored, And why good-bye’s abhorred? Why staying brings deep smile, While leaving makes one revile? Those shedding leaves,that shooting star!  The half cut tree and the plucked flower, Every hold on is no  Read More...
Published on Jun 4,2020 05:19 PM
A beautiful mansion
By Neema Kumari in General Literary | Reads: 922 | Likes: 0
In a soiled pant with torn pockets and stained shirts, he was walking past the most beautiful mansion in the town. Suddenly his feet stopped, and he turned his head towards his left to admire the beauty of the villa. Each corner of the wall was beautifully carved, and the designs were made with comp  Read More...
Published on Apr 25,2020 10:07 PM
My Trapped Soul
By Samadrita Roy in Romance | Reads: 916 | Likes: 0
It was a rainy evening.. I was reading my all-time favourite novel. The room was dark, only the rest chair and my book were lit up by the tiny lamp shade.  The sound of rain and smell of the mud was soothing me. At that very moment I heard a tap on the door. I knew the tap. It was rythemic- the  Read More...
Published on Apr 14,2020 11:11 AM
Getting a puppy
By Baskar in True Story | Reads: 907 | Likes: 0
One of our longing wishes which makes the wait worth,  though we'll have a lot but there's always one which brings us happiness that we forget to realize the inner child in us has woke up. ... it's been a long day reaching back home thinking of thr normal routine, as I entered in a slight li  Read More...
Published on Apr 13,2020 08:44 PM
One More Time
By Sagar Udaseen in Poetry | Reads: 905 | Likes: 0
*One More Time* The hill of my heart weathering and renewing, The lichen ligated to it ousting and emerging!  Windswept crevices eroded by water, Fervid for change  and a deep desire! An ephemeral rock breathing on fire, Ready to revive the hidden sapphire! This time you visit  th  Read More...
Published on May 24,2020 12:59 PM
Hymn for the Dead
By Shama Dinesh in Poetry | Reads: 896 | Likes: 0
The night time terror reigned the streets At the brink of death, humanity retreats Distress weaving its way inside In the awakening of the Grim Reaper’s bride   Desperate, shall you look into the mirror Stare into the eyes of the demons of hunger Humanity is fading, suffering, and dying Y  Read More...
Published on Apr 6,2020 08:55 PM
The New Mango Story!
By Udaya Kathiravan in General Literary | Reads: 886 | Likes: 0
Most of Indian/south Indian kids have heard the mango story from Shiva’s family. This new version of the story explores a different line of thread in current era of critical thinking. Good old friend of Shiva’s family, Mr. Naradhar was very much bored with his routine and wanted to visit  Read More...
Published on Apr 4,2020 06:02 PM
The Lift
By Arinjay Ghosh in Romance | Reads: 881 | Likes: 0
    Anubhav was just about to get in his car, when he heard a girl calling him. In the midst of the torrential rain and not much light source nearby, he was puzzled at first. After hearing the voice for the third time, he looked around, searching for its source. And within moments, he coul  Read More...
Published on Apr 26,2020 10:23 AM
Lost and Found
By Keerthana in True Story | Reads: 880 | Likes: 0
When she was born, she was not welcomed When she grew up, she was bullied. Her parents thought 'to discipline is to hit and abuse' 'to discipline is to neglect' so that she learns moral values Little did they know, this tarnished her self image.  She was struggling for an Identity The more she   Read More...
Published on May 1,2020 09:29 AM
ROOH-e-RUMI
By Mamta Sehgal in Poetry | Reads: 879 | Likes: 0
Do not grieve for your rusty, iron heart. HE will polish it to a steel mirror. And as you are being lowered into the ground, closed away from your friends, don’t cry. HE turns the ants and the snakes into beautiful new companions. –RUMI  Read More...
Published on Mar 29,2020 03:37 PM
Tale of Shining Armour
By garima bapna in Romance | Reads: 878 | Likes: 0
She was running upside down on the walls of his home, breathing and sweating heavily like someone was following her, pleading with her eyes for mercy and freedom.Wearing a beautiful dress which was abruptly ruptured, that glorious skin having brutal marks all over her body. Those silky hairs messed   Read More...
Published on Apr 4,2020 11:10 AM
Barbed
By ananya in Poetry | Reads: 877 | Likes: 0
A thousand blades may wound your heart, The last strings of hope you cling to so painfully bleeds out like the wail of a lover loved and lost. All alone you lie in that sewer, covered in the stench of their mockery, the dirt of their words . Darkness clouds those damned eyes. But roar back dear hear  Read More...
Published on May 24,2020 03:03 PM