Jun 24, 2021Hands Up! — Flash Fiction StoryHands Up! That’s all I had to say. My brother Manu made me practice it a hundred times. Or was it a thousand times? I can’t count. What do I know? Manu says I’m a simpleton. Papa called me an idiot. I remember his last words just before he died. …Flash Fiction2 min readFlash Fiction2 min read
Jun 19, 2021Acceptance and Tolerance and the Sin of Being PowerlessHello lovely readers! You all look so wonderful at a distance. Let’s just keep it that way! Someone, very special to me, recently asked me a question that hasn’t settled in any corner of my mind. …Acceptance6 min readAcceptance6 min read
May 19, 2021Cowards Don’t Die — Flash Fiction StoryA coward can never be a hero. I am that coward. They carried me home upon their shoulders. If only they knew the truth. But a dead man cannot speak, and I would never reveal what really happened. Asim’s burial was quick. Nothing much was left of him. His aged…Flash Fiction2 min readFlash Fiction2 min read
May 3, 2021Flash Fiction Story — Birthday WishEvery wish he had ever made had come true. He could be lying, but it served him no purpose. Eleven birthdays together, eleven beautiful cakes, eleven selfish wishes. Eleven reasons for me to believe that it wouldn’t be any different the twelfth time. But something was different. He hardly resembled…Flash Fiction2 min readFlash Fiction2 min read
Apr 28, 2021Flash Fiction Story — Creature of GreedI’m a man of many mistakes. Some small, some so vile that I struggle to hide in their indecent shadows. I was born just like you. What’s that word? Yeah, innocent. I hate that word. It’s the biggest sham on this planet. A distraction from man’s basic nature. Man is…Flash Fiction2 min readFlash Fiction2 min read
Apr 16, 2021The Man Who Forgot‘I don’t know them…’ ‘Raj. Look at me. I’m Tina, your wife.’ ‘Yeah, Dad. This is Mom and I’m Monty, your son.’ ‘Raj, are you sure you don’t recognize your wife and son? No recollection?’ ‘Uhhh, I have no idea, doctor. I’ve never seen them before.’ ‘He’s lying. Raj, you’re…Short Story2 min readShort Story2 min read
Apr 7, 2021Flash Fiction Story — Death Completes MeShe would never be the same again. — I was four when I died for the first time. The village pond had beckoned me into its brown waters, promising me a gallant win in a game of hide-and-seek. I held my breath, only a fool wouldn’t have, before slipping into a murky slumber. They found me floating like…Flash Fiction2 min readFlash Fiction2 min read
Apr 2, 2021Flash Fiction Story — Those Unforgiving EyesTen fingers, ten toes, twenty reasons to avoid his gaze. I counted them with care, assuming he would tire and leave me to my eccentricities. But he waited, a wolfish greed gleaming in his eyes, marking its territory upon me. I was nothing yet everything, another half-pretty face cast away…Flash Fiction2 min readFlash Fiction2 min read
Published in The Writing Cooperative·Mar 4, 2019It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s SuperWriter!Hey there! SuperWriter is here to save you readers from some dark, dismal, and inappropriate writing. I know you’ve been suffering, and your cries for help have gone unanswered. The kingdom of readers has been under attack since the ‘dawn of writing’ cast its first light. …Writing5 min readWriting5 min read
Jan 17, 2019Kick the ‘I’ out of Ideal and just Deal with LifeAn Ideal life…An Ideal partner…An Ideal child…An Ideal job… All of us have grown up in a Real world with Real people and Real emotions. Yet how many of us have been fed Ideal stories, shown Ideal scenarios, and pushed to follow an Ideal path? Many! MANY! MAAANNYY!! Ideal is really an ideal word in itself. Perfect, supreme, flawless…Life Lessons6 min readLife Lessons6 min read