Shanti was walking along the woods surrounding her ancestral home. It had been 18 years since she visited the town where she grew up. Memories hit her face like cold wind on a bike ride – Raju, a stray dog who she had rescued from the streets as a puppy, her younger brother who she had the best of times with, especially at their prime … Continue reading Homecoming
As he hid behind a clump of bushes, he noticed his knees shaking. He was never the one to give attention to fitness. Who can blame him? He headed one of the world’s biggest app companies. And members of the Korean military, who had sought his technological assistance for their latest project, were chasing him today. Sensing the damage it could potentially cause to the … Continue reading Falling Prey
“Now what on earth is this?” Tracy looked up. Alice had noticed something in the corner of the shop, and both of them went near it to have a closer look. “Could this be a gruesome representation of an execution?” “Execution? Who executes by puncturing the person’s eyes? Looks more like an image of someone who died in a battle to me. ” “But it’s … Continue reading The Three Eyed Raven
Sid was walking back from the store with his twelve-year-old daughter one evening. His wife had instructed him to buy some canned beans for dinner. That his daughter was glued to her mobile phone instead of talking to her father worried him. Sid thought about his childhood. The conversations he used to have with his dad on their expeditions. Conversations that shaped his life, and … Continue reading Reasons To Smile
As Karim was surveying the location to plant his bomb, he noticed quite a few things. The most striking of them all was hundreds of happy people of different ages and walks of life. There was a small girl carrying a Barbie, holding her mom’s pinkie as they made their way through the crowd to the other side of the road. There was an elderly … Continue reading To Do Or Not To Do
As he sat by the beach, a rush of memories came back to him. The first time his dad took him to the shore, the time when he played frisbee with his cousins, the time when he built sand castles and the times when he used to paint pictures of the beach. He tried recalling the last time he went to a beach. Was it … Continue reading And He Pondered
