A train journey in pandemic
By Shahitiya in Romance | Reads: 1,140 | Likes: 1
Abhay checked the time on his phone. It was 2:25 PM. He hurried his packing and in the meantime he booked his cab. After 10 minutes he got the call from the cab driver. He informed the warden and got out of the hostel. He took the cab. There was something unusual in the streets of New Delhi. Many yo  Read More...
Published on May 26,2020 11:03 PM
Security Guard
By Subhq Deb in True Story | Reads: 1,138 | Likes: 1
You are tired. There are dark bags under your eyes and your skin is freckled with mosquitoes bites. You fiddle restlessly with your cane, tapping it in tune to the muffled music that streams from your battered button phone. The same set of 90's hits played over and over again.  I remember promi  Read More...
Published on Jun 9,2020 08:58 AM
Little girl
By Anmol Rai in Poetry | Reads: 1,135 | Likes: 1
When life gives me bad days, I remember myself as a little girl; all soft and gentle never apologizing for what she felt or for all the words she never stopped saying, never skipped a meal or a good night’s sleep dreaming about the world as her oyster; she was so beautifully herself and so fie  Read More...
Published on May 17,2020 02:45 PM
Distance
By aarushi in Poetry | Reads: 1,131 | Likes: 1
It feels like yesterday When we used to sit together in the park, But now it's all dark. It felt so good when you kissed me, But now it just feels like a mystery. Our hands were clenched perfectly together, But now I'll have to wait for that forever. Without you my birthday was incomplete, But now I  Read More...
Published on May 28,2020 11:00 PM
Story of humanity
By Kavya Sharma in Poetry | Reads: 1,127 | Likes: 1
It all started with a smile. A gentle, unsuspecting gesture , Of friendship, of love and of happiness. A beauty, with inocent eyes, smiled at him, and, His heart skipped a beat ! It all started with a smile. A loving and a passionate gesture  Of care and abundance of it. A mother hugged her lit  Read More...
Published on Mar 25,2020 10:32 PM
◾The Monster Under My Bed◾
By Suchismita Ghoshal in Poetry | Reads: 1,125 | Likes: 1
the monster under my bed seems very punctilious never forgets to hop in my mind and knock me down in the times of darkness. his horrendous features fear me sometimes and sometimes don't, he adores me with his unkempt nails and smother me through his recitation, a minute reflection of horrendous so  Read More...
Published on Mar 22,2020 06:52 PM
Not another COVID-19 precaution message
By Sanket Pai in General Literary | Reads: 1,125 | Likes: 1
Not another COVID-19 precaution message. Rather a wake-up call to human beings. There have been a few things that have been going on lately. The Coronavirus has been spreading like a wildfire. Just 7 days ago, the global cases were around 199K. Today, the infected numbers are around 423K. That&rsquo  Read More...
Published on Mar 25,2020 10:23 AM
My Saviour
By Mohit Kukadia in Thriller | Reads: 1,122 | Likes: 1
My Jaws clenched blood out from my veins as the Fork spiked my hand. They all just looked at me in reticence as nobody had the courage to save me because at the end they were too afraid. Tears rolled down from my face as the silver fork turned crimson and broke at once but that didn’t stop him  Read More...
Published on May 16,2020 10:31 AM
THE DIRTY PURE
By Chithra Rangarajan in True Story | Reads: 1,121 | Likes: 1
Never mix my clothes with others while you put it in the washing machine, I shouted.  Do you think our dirt will stick to yours? Mom yelled back.  Ignoring her words, i wore the face mask and started walking towards the bus stop.  I hated the bus stop as it always had a spilling over   Read More...
Published on Apr 22,2020 08:26 PM
Reading—the greatest invention of mankind
By Tayyibah in General Literary | Reads: 1,118 | Likes: 1
Books remain— Even when Narnia disappears...                              Voldemort dies...                                    &n  Read More...
Published on Apr 7,2020 10:43 AM
ALZHEIMER'S
By Palash Kumar Majhisamant in Mystery | Reads: 1,114 | Likes: 1
“You need anything, sir?” asked Sudarshan. “No, thank you,” Rex responded. Sudarshan has been a relief for Rex for long now; taking really good care of him and assisting in his day to day activities. Rex can’t move but he is one of the finest clinical psychiatrists; a  Read More...
Published on Apr 25,2020 05:52 PM
Happy Mother's day
By Suhani Bansal in Poetry | Reads: 1,113 | Likes: 1
Blue sky is very clear, No more thunder we hear, What is hidden, is the cloud tears. Wind's fury quiet by the time, No more it's war time, What we left with is the sunshine. Chirp of birds is out by now, No more hidden are the cows, What to see now, is the broken boughs. India is full of fears, No m  Read More...
Published on May 13,2020 09:28 PM
Choices!
By Kanishka Tuteja in True Story | Reads: 1,111 | Likes: 1
CHOICES!❤️ All of us has so many choices to make in our lives! Either for ourselves or for others! You know! Sometimes the most difficult decision can be taken by choosing the simplest way! Why do we always have to CHOOSE the difficult path in order to do something important! If the thing is re  Read More...
Published on Mar 25,2020 11:52 PM
Butcher's wife committed suicide
By Ajitkumar Nambiar in Poetry | Reads: 1,111 | Likes: 1
Butcher's widow said "My husband is dead so let me meet your need for meat" To the crowd on the street And she fixed a board With whatever she could afford Just above the tiny shop Tied it hard lest it could drop First day a banker stood Like a snake raised his hood The 'blade companies' drink hum  Read More...
Published on Apr 4,2020 01:46 AM
Reincarnated Soul
By sanjana maheshwari in Poetry | Reads: 1,109 | Likes: 1
In a dark place was a girl searching for herself, After her heart broke her soul. All her thoughts were drowned, And the pain of betrayal was crawling on her skin like a ghoul. A belief she left behind was still tied to her ankle like that anchor which she could never cut loose. Choose! Was a sound   Read More...
Published on Apr 20,2020 08:37 PM