Interim
That was the first time in my life I’d smelled charred meat. I could tell it was different from the kind you’re supposed to eat, and my mother had to hold me as I threw up violently on the side of the street.
17 February 2024, 14:45 PM
Of chaand raat and cadet college
Old friend, you will be kept alive in jotted snippets and paper clippings.
13 July 2023, 00:00 AM
The Last Few Fries
The place had no soul or spirit left, and it was evident in the colourless walls, the unclean glasses, the empty eyes of the server who left me a menu card.
13 July 2023, 00:00 AM
Delirium
The wish itself was pretty mediocre and commonplace, a mundane fantasy to escape the mundane.
27 May 2023, 11:14 AM
50 Questions to Ask Your Partner
"What would be an absolutely perfect afternoon to you?"
23 November 2022, 23:55 PM
My Mother’s Shoes
I didn’t know the endings to most of the stories as I fell asleep halfway.
25 August 2022, 00:00 AM
Vermillion
Radha stared ceaselessly at the mangled slab of flesh, blood and bones, trying to find any hint of resemblance between the person she'd known and loved, and been happily married to for all these years, and the mess lying in front of her.
13 June 2018, 18:00 PM
The Evacuation
The feathery white clouds floating lazily across the cerulean sky indicated that it was going to be a lovely day. Just like other days that ended in massive brouhaha. Old Li Yan was sweeping the park, when he sensed something different in the air. He looked around, but everything seemed pretty normal. Call it the superstitions of an old man, but Yan's intuitions had never failed him previously. Something was not right.
30 May 2018, 18:00 PM
Sandcastles
Today, after so many years, I'll get to see him again. I try to walk quietly, but my arthritis affected knees make it an inconceivable task for me. My lucid, floppy arms grab on to the walls for support as I stumble on air.
18 April 2018, 18:00 PM
Dénouement
“Come on, man,” Irfan ushered Tahmid on “You have officially lost the bet, and now we get to hear THE big, dark, evil secret that you have been keeping from us!”
The five of us were sitting inside our regular rendezvous spot, which was Raju mama's tea stall and this was an intense moment, we were trying to get Tahmid to spill the beans.
21 February 2018, 18:00 PM