Elevators : Think Before You Step In

Elevators – Think before you step in. It started about a month ago. At first there were one or two isolated incidents. Everyone thought that the first people who experienced it were either lying or delusional. But then more stories came to light. Now it has become a regular occurrence. So much that people have […]

Dog Day Diaries – Week 3

Welcome back. This week has been busy. With too many cars passing through our street I had a lot of chasing to do. Then Jenna, the human who lives in house across the street delivered a human pup. Yeah you heard it right just one human pup. This is a weird thing with human females. […]

Edward Grimm – Case of the Dead Actor (Part 2)

Inspector Brian Foolhardy was the most senior inspector working with the crime detection branch of Lornoirville Police, about half a decade from retirement. He had been passed over for promotion a number of times and served under younger superiors. He had become a bitter man, unsmiling, sarcastic and sometimes rude. He knew Edward Grimm since […]

Cold Turkey

The Neanderthal feeling takes hold, The inevitable hug of ubiquitous cold, Kaleidoscopic patterns of purple and grey, Emerge against the background, Of burning bright golden sunlight, Hands trembling like the taut leather, Of the drum just hit hard, Voices screaming in the head, Creating a cacophony of clamor, Thousand and twenty needles, Pricking and piercing […]

Short Stories

The words that you enslaved, Made unwilling accomplices, In your game of subterfuge and shadows, As you continued to weave, Strands of fiction overlapping, With masterstrokes of different hues, Your Stygian motives painted cerulean, Sugar on your short stories. Your eyes were obliging, With their talent for deception, A picture of phantasmagorical lands, Tales of […]

Dog Day Diaries – Week 2

Just came back from a tiring and harrowing trip. And this is one of the terrible things I have to put up with. Once every month either Joe or Jill takes me to a sinister man in white coat, whom they mysteriously call a ‘wet’. And I don’t know why they call him that, he […]

Romeo and Juliet

O! Romeo, A heartbeat and a wink, A length of a breath, A lifetime, Did you wait ages, to live a moment, Or die in a moment, to live forever, A dazzling diamond teardrop, a silent revelry, A Golden Champagne, A silver moonlight, O! Juliet , A soft pink silk, A sweet strawberry, Velvet sands […]

Friend

Chand looked at the passing cars through the iron strips of the railway fence. He was waiting for more than an hour now. Every couple of minutes a train would pass by deafening him with the thud-thud on the tracks. Not that he was not used to it. He heard it more often than he […]