“The shape and size of your hands tells you what sort of person you are,” said the old lady seated on the lower berth in the train, wrapped in black and blue looking ominous and like a rounded cozy hen. Wisps of black hair peppered with white escaped from a straggly hair net as sharp penetrating eyes peered out from underneath shaggy grey eyebrows. Deep furrows outlined her … [Read more...]
Short Story Writers
Catoptromancy | Shefali Shah Choksi
Geeta had cultivated a strange habit that befuddled her friends. As was wont of her posse, she frequently indulged in lengthy monologues fraught with much feeling and little matter, but this was not strange. In midst of such emotional expostulations, she had taken to blatantly exposing her carelessness about the person she was performing for, sprinkling her eye-rolling and deep … [Read more...]
The Boy With No Face | Bhanuraj Kashyap
My dreary existence speaks for itself. As the night drops in on us to take us to fitful sleep, I lie awake, dreading tomorrow, with its infinitely long seconds; I don’t know what to do with the time I’ve been allotted. Neither I’m squandering it nor am I saving it. Ah! Allow me to recount the tale of my uneventful and monotonous life, plagued by boredom. I’m raving, I know! … [Read more...]
The 127th grave! by Sheikh Saaliq
[This story is completely a work of fiction.] It is a June evening and Sun is setting down. The Goldenyellow sky above is getting murkier and the air is moist and humid. Kashmir is in full bloom and everything in and around it is adding to its beauty. Here in the village far away from the city’s pollution, dust, chaos and rush everything seems in peace. The bare mountains are … [Read more...]
The Woman from Palakad | K. L. Joseph ( J. Kaval )
Only a handful of people attended the funeral though the dead person belonged to the same village and known to everybody there. He did not know anyone. He had expected at least a few familiar faces. There was none. After the simple religious ceremony of cremation, he was about to leave the place, when Murali asked him: "Uncle, should you leave at once? You have come from a … [Read more...]