Impugn
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. – Dale Carnegie What are you blessed with? A house, a plate of food? A well working set of Limbs? A child, a wife or a family…
The best lesson
Human life is a long path which is filled with challenges and problems. No one can escape from this common formula in our journey. But as human beings it is our duty to change those hurdles as good lessons to…
The Note. (Retort)
Dear love, My heart skipped beats while I read your letter. I thought you moved on effortlessly, hope you find this vignetter. I am in pain like I’m being sliced with swords, so much of it that I fail to…
The Note.
To the only one it might concern, “There’s life after fall and there’s love after failure” I hope you are keeping fine. I am writing this mail with a lot of things in my mind. Right now, it’s…
Appeasement
“You must either use all that money on things that are useful, or give it away to those who are in need”, I told Naveed that morning when we met at a Café near his house and that is…
Parents – Pay Rents
It’s the due date Both of them are in a state of panic yet excited Hurriedly they reach the emergency room After facing death the mother hears a cry and smiles with relief 2.5inches of happiness looks at them blankly…
Peacemaker
Rea Nelson turned eighteen that Autumn. No cakes, no parties, no wishes, no presents to cheer her up or celebrate her legality. “Well, this isn’t something offbeat anyways”, she told herself as she got back to finishing a story she…
The Grey Village
Everyone has heard of Costa’s miracles in our grey village; the boy who had a wooden toy and a cheerful wren bird. His giant miracles were in his spoken wooden toy which could create a lot of jokes in a…
Metamorphosis
I don’t remember how I got here. Before, I was drifting. I try to recapture my dream but except for a brief glimmer of clouds and blue sky it is gone completely. Time to wake up then, I guess. I…
A Career
What do you really know about being happy and content with your career choice? Just get a degree and follow what your elders tell you to do and be depressed and stressed all your life? Or you get a degree…
Following Your Heart
“I bet there are three-eyed monsters and man-eating trees on the other side of the great river,” said Shyam. Shyam was the only one I was close to, besides my mom. She was my world. Shyam and I used to…
Three Balloons
“I want three”, she shrieked as she handed the little silver coins she had gathered from her old piggy bank and the balloon-man handed her three Red balloons as she desired. Overwhelmed, she could…
Hauntingly Beautiful
Abbey opened the mailbox, tentatively looking inside. Her heart skipped a beat when she saw there was a letter, a long-awaited letter, from a well-known music studio. She knew what it was about; her submission. A keen pianist since she…
Left Alone
There’s nothing like the smell of fresh cut grass, the warm touching of the sun, and the drool of a life-size Rottweiler to get you up in the morning. Yup, me and V.J the Rottweiler were an item, partners in…
The Purgatory Cave – A fiction
Purgatory: adj. Having the quality of cleansing or purifying. “Where the hell am I?” was Grant’s first thought as he woke up in a sweat. He tried to sit up, only to be met with shooting pain from his neck…
Butterfly’s Kiss
I held it together until the last person passed through. They swirled around me like ripples on a lake; restricting my ability to focus my eyes. They were overwhelmed by the extravagance of the city lights, and I don’t blame…