Love is Love
“May I redeem the souls tainted by the sins of their body.” “May I salvage the good that remains.” “May I lead lost minds to
Penmancy Releases
The Forbidden Delicacy
“May I have this sweet?” Eight-year-old Bantu looked up at his mother with hope simmering in his eyes. He envisaged a smile on her lips
The Familiar Emerald Ring
“May I please interrupt your alone time and buy you a drink?” There is nothing in the world that would persuade her to say no.
The Harbinger Cafe
“May I make a beginning from the scratch once again Naina?” Leela’s question made her daughter Naina proud of her mother’s decision. She was genuinely,
May I, Pretty Please?
“May I have a McD’s burger for lunch, mom?” chimed my 12-year-old as she spooned upma into her mouth, her beseeching voice sounding irresistibly endearing,
The Study of A Local Cafe
Sweet-sour scent of slow-roasted coffee beans (a) Recessed lighting, softly highlighting (b) The clamorous cackle of a callow clump of teens, (a) Who are somehow,
The Impending Journey
“May I please embark upon the much desirous trip to Holy Mount Kailash?”, pleaded Radhika for the nth time from her bed. Her husband Mohan
The Bus Ride
“May I sit next to you?” Sarala had been gazing out of the window as the bus trundled along. She saw a young man wearing
Train Switch
“May I sit here?” A voice asked disrupting the nervous tapping of Arnav’s feet. He looked up to find a tall lanky man standing at
Conflagration
An outburst of green Emerald like feathers fanned Blooms glancing between Bushes flared up like bonfires on land Amazed looking at spring Green inferno lighting
First Love
The beat of the unsteady heart; thump, thump, The power of infatuation. The goosebumps, tingles, titillations, happily confused mind in a stump, First love, a
Mother to be
The phone in her hand vibrates ..shaking her out of her thoughts.Her son lay in the hospital bed waiting for the second chemo “hello ma’am
Related Uncanny
Jubin was heading towards the last room of the row where the veranda ended. The second floor ends there. At 8 in the morning, sunlight
The Homemaker
The alarm rang incessantly. Avoiding the temptation to snooze it, I turned it off. I slowly unraveled myself from the bed and sleepily walked to
The Best Gift
“Have you taken mom’s gift?” Saumil asked his wife Neha as they sat in the car. Before Neha could reply, their 10 year old daughter
‘Jannat’ in Your Arms
“Amma, please come back soon. I will reeeeeaaaaallllly miss you!”, screeched little Piyu as her mother Kamala dropped her at the hostel corridors. Kamala hugged
A Page From My Mother’s Diary
My dear Sonshine, Let me share a secret with you! I became an unwed mother at the age of twenty-three. It was accidental. I had
Her Bhairavas
The audience roared while the shutterbugs clicked to glory, the flashes providing collective illuminance to brighten the dark auditorium confines. “The influencer award goes to
The Unconventional Mother
The night slips into silence. The world is in deep slumber. But a distant wail annihilates and creeps into the silence. Crumbling it bit-by- bit.
