“An entire day at the Planetarium!” thought an excited Rohit, as he got ready for school that day. His mother watched as he got dressed on his own and managed t...
Single Mother Legacy
Life as a single mother was never going to be easy, yet she had chosen to go down the path less travelled. Most people choose a life of ea...
“Are you blind, you fool?” Megha yelled at the rickshawallah. Her car and his rickshaw had gotten into a tiny accident and there was hardly a scratch on each ve...
Commuting in the city had become a hassle. The traffic was insane; the roads were populated with impatient drivers and more vehicles than the roads could fit. D...
I couldn’t wait till the bus drew to a stop. The motion sickness was getting a bit too much to handle and to make it worse I really wanted to pee. The effects o...
The Day of Christmas Eve
It was 4 pm in the evening. Sheena had her headphones jammed into her ears. Listening to her favorite Bollywood songs, she walked alon...
Mr. Jason Rice is mostly silent. Rude. Arrogant. His house is considered a haunted place. Rarely a human being is found in his house except the mailman. Mailman...
It had been raining all day. ‘It’s perfect weather for a horror movie,’ Marie said. ‘You bet,’ I said. We both loved the eerie claustrophobia of good horror mov...
‘You have to decide it now, time is running. 3 months! It will pass quickly’ said Agent Aaron to Sam looking straight into his eyes. Sam looks at his son while ...
Work had taken over their lives. Ayaan was constantly on the phone on the weekends, trying to broker this deal or that. There was no beginning and no end to his...
Rahul sat quietly at the table poking his food in his very special Winnie the Pooh bowl, only the food in it wasn’t his favorite! His mom had made peas rice and...
The Kumar household was in that magical stupor which is only brought upon by a delicious and heavy homemade Sunday lunch. The kids, who were not so much of kids...
Tracy is a 22 year old girl working for a law firm. She is meek, lacks confidence and is and low on self esteem. People find her sluggish and dumb too. They thi...
Please talk to him Kittu, Vikram is a very good boy. They are such great family friends, you know uncle and aunty since childhood, and he is so handsome too! Th...
It was pouring outside. The corrugated sheet of the tiny bus shed could only shelter them so much. Vehicles whizzed past. Young men of about eighteen or twenty,...
Picture perfect is the word that came to everyone’s minds when describing Meha and Rishi. They were the perfect couple. High school sweethearts, they had dated ...
Four friends were going on a road trip when it started to rain heavily. The thunder and lightening was fierce. After having seen lightening strike just few mete...
It was the same scene as usual, the beer was on the table, the pizza box lay open with the cheesy crust Pizza and the TV was showing Manchester United jerseys. ...
For all of his 27 years, Vinay had loudly and vociferously advocated that there was absolutely no substitute for hard work, however deep within he felt that his...
Everything about her was a mystery, which only made her more interesting. When I look back on that day, 13th December 2011, I know I should have realized that a...
The train had just begun to pull away from the station when the old man walked up the bench May was sitting on. He set his bag on the bench in between them, smi...
I had been consoling myself for five years now that I would be home for Christmas next year. Year after year, I kept making plans and changing them. I would cou...
An apple, a banana and a vegetable sandwich. "This is my lunch," said she to no one in particular. Like most days, she was alone at home while her parents were ...
There was a time when Raju Kaku (Rajenath Kaku) was the talk of the town. Nobody could resist his crispy puris or the golden aromatic potato curry se...
As he stepped into the train compartment, the few tired faces greeted him. He smiled back at them and went to sit down at his usual place - by the window neares...
