Merak Magazine

Chitra Gopalakrishnan

Chitra Gopalakrishnan

I am a New Delhi-based journalist by training, a social development communications consultant by profession and a creative writer by choice. My work has been published by Celestial Echo Press, Black Hare Press, Me First Magazine, Reedsy Prompt, 50-word stories, Friday Flash Fiction, Terror House Magazine, Unpublished Platform, Literary Yard, Truancy, Spillwords, Fleas on the Dog and Runcible Spoon, among others.

What this Life is Meant to be

I live by the seasons of death. I transact with the un-living, their stiffened death rattles, as they burn on bright-red embers releasing a spiral of thick black smoke. This on a daily basis in my village of Harishankini, born…