by Seema Taneja | Nov 18, 2019 | Beaks, Countdown, Short Stories
She stood by the window and watched them. The playground reverberated with the exuberant chatter and laughter of her children. They had just finished a soccer match and their joyous backslapping enlivened the dull horizon. A smile lit up her face. It waned the next...
by Sheetal Ashpalia | Nov 16, 2019 | Beaks, Countdown, Fiction, Short Stories
The alarm buzzed. Sam opened an eye and glanced at it. 6 AM, it read. Turning it off, he groaned as he pushed himself out of bed. He hadn’t slept well last night. Hell, who am I kidding? I haven’t slept well in ages…since Allie left, he reminded himself. He put the...
by Sonal Singh | Oct 19, 2019 | ArttrA-4, Beaks, Short Stories
10 am, February 2003. New York, District Court. “All rise for the Honourable Judge Richards.” At the bailiff’s announcement, all rose. Judge Richards sat, perched a pair of glasses on his nose and said, “The defendant will state his name and occupation for the...
by Manoj Paprikar | Sep 16, 2019 | Beaks, Drama, Fiction, Greenhorns, Metamorphosis, Short Stories
“Please welcome our celebrated guest for today, Mrs. Mina Badami,” the interviewer introduced as she walked on the decked-up stage with all the lights focused on her. The audience rose up in a thunderous rapture as they welcomed her on stage. “Welcome to the function,...
by Manoj Paprikar | Sep 11, 2019 | Beaks, Drama, Short Stories, UniK-5
The sun-baked day did not auger well for the energy pent up inside her. Tara needed to cool down; back from the mission just the day before, she was not up for action yet. But she was summoned and it signalled something else. It was a cat-and-mouse game all her life,...
by Ratnakar Baggi | Sep 11, 2019 | Beaks, Drama, Short Stories, UniK-5
Daniel stared at the massive pile that awaited him. Discarded medicines, toxic drugs, hazardous materials and chemical wastes. The stench no longer assailed him. More than three years of drudgery in his job as a sanitation worker at the local pharmaceutical research...
Hiraeth
Death at Midnight
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