The Singing Mother
By Ayush Nigam in Poetry | Reads: 663 | Likes: 2
Before the Moon hid hid behind the clouds, before midnight would befall   Alongside my dirty mattress, towards the five year old, she would crawl.     With a quiver of a smile streaking up her face,   She planted a kiss on my cheeks with the utmost grace.     With cackl  Read More...
Published on Apr 10,2020 09:38 PM
I stood and watched.
By Shreya in Poetry | Reads: 646 | Likes: 2
I stood and watched as the mother cried, When she heard that her son had died. He didn't die because he was sick, Or he siding die because he was in a wreck. He died doing what he felt was right. I watched a father try to hold back his tears, His son had lived only a scant 22 years. His son had die  Read More...
Published on Apr 23,2020 12:30 PM
I want to die young
By Eswar Tavva in Thriller | Reads: 642 | Likes: 2
 I WANT TO DIE YOUNG He was driving his car in the outskirts of the city on the national highway. All of a sudden, he found himself being followed by two SUVs. He doubted them and when he was about to slow down his car to confirm their intentions, they started firing at him. He immediately acce  Read More...
Published on Apr 8,2020 09:20 AM
"Nations United" by Corona
By Johnny in Poetry | Reads: 636 | Likes: 2
No visas and no immigration process, An uninvited guest fast and furious! It has no borders, discriminates none. Black or white, brown or yellow; it treats all as one. Pushed back everything and captured the center stage. Spare no worship places, saints and sage. Does god admit it as wrath on mankin  Read More...
Published on Mar 25,2020 06:04 PM
A fallen Leaf
By Pavalamani Pragasam in Fantasy | Reads: 623 | Likes: 2
Perhaps this is the last lap of my race. Mellowed and matured. I have reached my autumn and I am content to fold my wings and take rest. Now I simply observe the world around me. Being a leaf on the verge of falling all associations connected with the word "fall" come rushing to my mind. History boo  Read More...
Published on Mar 24,2020 06:21 PM
Letting go !
By Filter Koffee Chronicles in Romance | Reads: 616 | Likes: 2
Vani was tossing and turning in her bed. Her sleep was very disturbed, her dreams too, were vague and hazy, and she could not recollect them. That bothered her a lot, normally, she would have dreams that were 4K HD resolution and she would recount them to her husband, Vasanth, every morning in excru  Read More...
Published on Apr 7,2020 01:11 AM
With love, from 300 km away.
By Akshaya Muralikumar in Romance | Reads: 582 | Likes: 2
Love has no latitude, longitude. It resides in the warmth of the soul and purity of the emotions that make the distance dissolve in thin air. But, if the big blue sky shared by us could rain, it would shed the silent tears hidden in our telephone conversations. If the breeze could hum, it would sing  Read More...
Published on May 2,2020 10:07 PM
Frailty.
By Christel in Poetry | Reads: 575 | Likes: 2
What is life, but like a flower, Blooms today, fades tomorrow, Taken away whenever, by the sower, What have we, from the future to borrow? Tossed to and fro, like the chaff in the wind, Man races for worldly riches, Every minute, the heart is pained and hardened, By endless plaints and wishes. Eve  Read More...
Published on Apr 23,2020 11:20 PM
A different queue
By subhadra kunduri in General Literary | Reads: 552 | Likes: 2
A different queue Two old women – Rani and Vani - were seated in their usual places opposite the temple gates. They generally spent the whole day there, looking for the devotees going in and out of the temple, and anticipating that some of them would drop a rupee or two -  and if they wer  Read More...
Published on May 11,2020 07:38 AM
Touch
By Dia in Poetry | Reads: 548 | Likes: 2
...beneath the layers   bodies intertwined, naked  skin against skin  She buried herself in his warmth  his fingers ran down her body, as though tracing the path of a treasure map his lips reached in, kissed her soul he embraced her so gentle yet so tight her flaws,he cher  Read More...
Published on Apr 11,2020 05:56 PM
The Morning Breeze
By Preity S. in Poetry | Reads: 519 | Likes: 2
The  Morning Breeze   The heat and breathlessness of the night, Is replaced by cool breeze of the morning. It gave me a hope and affirmed, That nothing is permanent and going to last. Even darkest of despair & gravest of suffering, Will make way for the sun of happiness & goodness,  Read More...
Published on Apr 17,2020 09:05 AM
Vermilion
By Prerna in True Story | Reads: 509 | Likes: 2
The temple bells rang loud, prayer hall consisting mostly of women and some old men was resounding with the incantations being repeated in the honour of goddess Durga. Goddess Durga, the deity representative of feminine power, said to be present in every female especially minor girls who are yet to   Read More...
Published on May 21,2020 06:58 AM
Bright morning
By Vaishnavi in Poetry | Reads: 507 | Likes: 2
As i wake up, And have my morning cup, I feel the rush of blood, Like a new winsome bud. I cherish the fresh air, As it messes over with my hair. The environment smells new, The leaves greener with dew. The sky, on it's best show, The flowers have an extra glow. Everything so good, Adding on to your  Read More...
Published on Jun 13,2020 09:18 AM
The Insightless Virus
By Aditya Shetty Jnana in General Literary | Reads: 500 | Likes: 2
"They looked so naive and humble in demeanor, how vile their intentions were, we did not know” echoed all of earth when asked of the intruders who kept sucking on its resources like hungry leeches. “It was many a daylight back when in the dawn of the day they arrived, asking for nothing   Read More...
Published on Apr 27,2020 08:22 PM
You are fired!
By Filter Koffee Chronicles in General Literary | Reads: 499 | Likes: 2
Rakesh Sinha, aka Rocky to friends, sauntered into the office building, his club yellow Dr. Dre headphones, covering his ears completely! Hater blockers, white tee, an unbuttoned flannel shirt, distressed jeans and multicolored kicks finished his looks. Swiping his access card, he ambled towards hi  Read More...
Published on Apr 1,2020 02:17 AM
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