The Sorrows of Shopping
By Priyanka Singh in Humour & Comedy | Reads: 569 | Likes: 0
There’s no rose without a thorn! In life, everything that you like comes with something you don’t quite like. I enjoy shopping, but there is one aspect of it I find irksome – the over-enthusiastic sales staff ever ready to “help” you. For someone like me, who is not rea  Read More...
Published on Mar 29,2020 12:28 AM
Live and let live
By Shruti Prakash in General Literary | Reads: 567 | Likes: 0
LIVE AND LET LIVE If the below significant incidents from our mythology took place in the present era... Situation 1 Bheeshma pitamaha lied on the bed of arrows and desperately praying to be able to get few drops of water... Arjun being the devoted grandson that he was notwithstanding the pain and  Read More...
Published on Apr 6,2020 09:44 AM
Good Bye
By Payal Sharma in Thriller | Reads: 565 | Likes: 0
He woke up without the morning coffee on his bed side. It had never happened in 3 years. His coat wasn't ironed and was lying on top of the pool of his dirty laundry. His breakfast wasn't ready and the house was dead silent.  All there was, was the sound of a fluttering paper on the dining tabl  Read More...
Published on Apr 16,2020 11:51 PM
The new guy in the town!
By divya raval in Humour & Comedy | Reads: 562 | Likes: 0
"Hey gal! I've heard about some new guy in the town. He has been drawing too much of attention these days, eh?" "Yeah! I came to know about him as well. I wonder who the fellow is. Ever since he has entered into the picture, people have stopped paying us attention. As if we do not exist! This is unf  Read More...
Published on Mar 29,2020 09:35 PM
Take me home
By Riya in Romance | Reads: 559 | Likes: 0
TAKE ME HOME Now I felt like asking what he wanted.”Good book”, he said never taking his eyes off me. “Yeah, sure is.”I said flatly. I kept my eyes on the book trying to avoid the only man left in the deserted metro. It was nearly midnight in Seattle but still there wasn&rsqu  Read More...
Published on Mar 31,2020 07:51 PM
A letter to Moon
By The Poet in Poetry | Reads: 557 | Likes: 0
Dear moon, Don’t you know that the sun loves you? He always hides your darkness with his light. People hating the heat always falls in love with you. His tears being burnt away and unnoticed. He still gives life to this earth. The loner waited, Only to find that, Even your heart is as cold as   Read More...
Published on Apr 11,2020 07:06 PM
Beautiful lockdown
By preeti in Poetry | Reads: 557 | Likes: 0
What is the beauty of this lockdown..... I can see my plants growing I can welcome my chirping guests with immense pleasure I have time to sit and talk to my own self Do you know the beauty of this lockdown... It has strengthened emotional connections I has taught how to spend lesser It has become a  Read More...
Published on Apr 28,2020 10:11 AM
Barbed
By ananya in Poetry | Reads: 554 | 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
Men don't cry
By Nandana Vijayakumar in Poetry | Reads: 553 | Likes: 0
"Men don't cry",the words that every crying young boy would hear. What are you supposed to do then, when you're in sadness and despair?    Many men never dare to say, if their favourite colour is pink. As from childhood, most of their possessions  are the colour of blue ink!   Si  Read More...
Published on May 8,2020 12:46 PM
Ma
By Rajashree Mohanty in General Literary | Reads: 552 | Likes: 0
I sing a merry rhythm as I open the creaky old wooden door of the house, calling out for Ma at the top of my lungs. 'Ma.... Ma..', I scream and jump in excitement as my pigtails do a little dancing of their own. Ma doesn't speak. 'MA.....' This time a little louder. Still nothing. I drop my schoolb  Read More...
Published on Apr 26,2020 03:16 PM
The escape room
By Manasvi Kumar in Poetry | Reads: 545 | Likes: 0
Nothing is felt here In the escape room Your mind isn't clear To save yourself from you But this escape room Just feels right When you need to escape From what you fright  You'll find many minds  Scraping their existence here When they're nowhere Else to find But this escape room Just f  Read More...
Published on May 6,2020 01:54 PM
If Ever
By Preeti in Poetry | Reads: 544 | 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
DUNNOCK
By Amrita in Poetry | Reads: 534 | Likes: 0
DUNNOCK  Jiggle,joggle,tweet and wobble,  Incessant chirping and dulcet tonal. Here,a fresh nest again, Made by love,devotion of wren. Flying hither and tither round the clock, Alluring Shy Dunnock,around the folk, Architect of their own,whence they know, To raise the nest by weaving twin  Read More...
Published on May 29,2020 01:32 AM
DOGS OF WAR
By Natesan Ramalingam Iyer in Humour & Comedy | Reads: 532 | Likes: 0
A major issue cropped up in my Condo in Singapore between families having pet dogs and those not having pet dogs. Our Condo consists of 7 Towers. It started with those not having pet dogs complaining that passenger lifts should not be used for walking the dogs; it leaves a bad odor in the lift cabin  Read More...
Published on Apr 22,2020 06:47 PM
THE ENLARGED DREAM
By SATADAL LAHIRI in Romance | Reads: 528 | 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
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