"What's your backup plan?" That was the question everyone asked Arjun the day he announced that he was preparing for the UPSC Civil Services Examination. But Arjun had already made his choice. There ... [+]
Red plagued the office corridors along with dissonant alarm bells. It was what jerked Violet out of her seat before she became part of the scramble towards the exit. Amidst the crowd, she chanced ... [+]
They called the city a furnace with streets. Kilns ringed the markets like open red mouths, and clay figures cooled on racks—lions with human eyes, queens with crescent crowns, gods whose smiles ... [+]
Once, there was a God.
Though the God was undoubtedly a God, and, as per God status, was to be unbothered by any human-like type of annoying life side effects (feelings, bodily functions and
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As the city's sanitation crew dusted the fresh snow from the avenues, navigating his way through the morning traffic, Nathan finally arrived home. He was still buoyed by the remnants of a long night's ... [+]
When I explained the plot to my friend, he said it was too easy. All the characters had to do, was drive through the border. What could possibly go wrong ? Her brother was driving, like ... [+]
She had mentioned this park being her favourite, yet she is still not here, and the agonising pain in my heart keeps on hurting. Where could she be? I was 18 when I came to this country, with a few ... [+]
The ocean breeze hit her first. Sharp, salted, alive. This feels... oddly familiar. "Is it home?" she thought. The sky stretched in streaks of dull blue and white, mesmerizing--yet her mind ... [+]
The little boy on the stage was the son of a famous actor, the kind college girls used to press their lips against posters of, who was one evening found face down in a hotel swimming pool like ... [+]
The stars circle him. It's not just stars. It's galaxies, he knows; galaxies and nebulae and burning spheres of pure fire, so distant they form only pinpricks of light even this close. He thinks he ... [+]
I choked. The room wasn't even that cold, but my hands felt numb as I stared at the question paper. Pens were already scribbling around me like a starting gun had gone off in a race I hadn't even ... [+]
Her eyes burned from hours of staring at the laptop screen, a dull ache pulsing behind her temples — part headache, part frustration from memorizing endless drug names. The library was silent, the ... [+]
I hate this. "Miss Tanaka, are you afraid of me?" I hate the step he takes forward, placing one polished shoe in front of the other with the confidence of a man who has nothing left to lose. I hate ... [+]
When she arrives at the hospital, Lily is not asked to wait in front of the operating room. She strides in on the dot, protected by an entourage of two secretaries answering questions of appointments ... [+]
