Tagged: creative writing

3 days in a wonderland

She woke up by the strange voices coming from the next room. She felt anxious when she found herself lying in this unknown room. The room was minimally decorated with antique furniture. She felt...

A Space Aubade

Anne had always been different from others.  She always wondered beyond the endless skyline, to see the blue and what existed out there. She always desired to escape from the prison-house of the known...

Beta-103

We are energies trapped up in human bodies. Some people refer to these energies as souls. They believe that it is a soul that truly lives. Whatever we feel, we experience or see is...

L’Envoi

The year is 2875. Multiple mirror-Earths have been discovered in different galaxies. Our universe has been found to be one of three that exist parallelly – Centuri, Omega, and Heraxus, with inter-universal travel only...

Chronicles of The Living

The dead people walk… The dead people walk. All the dead bodies crossing the roads, and flooding the streets. They are cold and they smell like rotten hearts. Oh, that’s what they are.                                 ...

Wetwood Inn

It was a chilly Thursday night in Wetwood with the cosmic display twinkling in all its beauty. Streets were eerily empty, only a dark shadow was moving across the spindly pine trees lining the...

Ex Inferis

The End The corpses began to stink on the fourth day. The cats disappeared on the eighth. The Beginning It was Ahi’s idea. He’d found a page neatly tucked in a book he’d ordered...

Her

I read the notes for the thousandth time and kept on reading them over and over again just to convince myself that this is not the reality, that I’m just being delusional, that nothing...

Karak Chaye

It’s the beginning of a new year-1947. It is a casual sunny day. Across the street, children are playing “gulli danda”. Today is a special day for Fateh and Saleem as their best friend...

Red Tea-Party

We were having dinner when my father announced, “Tomorrow we are going to visit the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Kartarpur.” I burst with excitement and joy, “really, baba?” Many of my friends have been...