Category: Fiction

  • You’re a Monster too

    You’re a Monster too

    (I hope you enjoy reading this short story I wrote based on the prompt: Ignore every instinct to flee. Remember: You’re a monster too.) The bed creaked as Noah snuggled deeper into the covers. The rain pitter-pattered against the windowpanes outside. The cloud-shaped night light by the door glowed and…

  • Forget me not

    Mike Walton was very forgetful. “You’d forget your head if it weren’t attached to your shoulders!” his wife, Janet, had sighed that morning, flinging her hands up in exasperation, after he’d forgotten half the items on the shopping list she’d given him. Now, on his way back to the grocery…

  • Choices

    (A short story) So colourful! Olivia had just stepped into the food aisle at the supermarket. Sunday afternoons were for grocery shopping. She’d always found supermarkets intriguing. They were magical places with aisles that stretched out forever and rows of shelves that seemed to touch the ceiling. Hundreds of products…

  • Green

    (Illustrations by Vaishnavi Gopal) Green. The colour of jealousy, that vile monster. The colour of her eyes. Anita walked into the bedroom. Green drapes here too. They would have to go. She couldn’t stand the colour. She spotted a movement outside the window and turned her attention to it. The…