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Flash Fiction

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Fiction and Poetry

When the Ashes Come to Hunt

Abhishek Kar -
The village folk looked up as the sky changed colour from a lighter shade of grey into a darker one. The object which was...
Flash Fiction

Twelve Steps

Pritha Deshpande -
There are twelve steps between me and redemption.  When I take the first one and see my death looming before me, yawning open like the...
Flash Fiction

Friday

Tara Rao -
"It was simply imperative to understand the psychology of a man before roping him in and rendering him spent."
Flash Fiction

Lost and Found

Devika Goswami -
“She had everything she needed: a little bit of laundry-change that she scraped off the dining table the other night, some water, her half-eaten lunch, a comic book and a tiny slip with her address scribbled on it.”
Fiction and Poetry

Simpler Thing

Ditsa Majumder -
““But now, we are walking backwards until we collide. We are talking of women and their men, of the wall, of the weather. Of us. “Does it trouble you too?” I ask.”
Fiction and Poetry

A Set of Hands

Diya Sood -
“And with every wrong set of hands, he wished only for a dispassionate life. A life of no knots, no slutty mothers and lovelorn fathers.”
Fiction and Poetry

Narcissus and I

Arshi Khan -
“Time is a blur and I do not remember what I was before. For as long as I know, the day I came upon these untouched waters, was the day I began to live. For is not to love, to live?”
Flash Fiction

Cubicles

Aarti Mukhedkar -
"No one is waiting for him, but he has to be on time. "

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