Reading Time: 2 minutesTwo old ladies sit side by side. Both are hard of hearing. One is Shama and the other is Masha. Sisters by birth, friends by choice. Eighty-eight and ninety-two, ripe…
Reading Time: 3 minutesYou can never be too short. My mother probably knew what this meant. She’s the one who used to say it. Every day till she died. She’d lick her thumb…
Reading Time: 2 minutesOooooh writer, you think you’re so cool. Oooooh writer, the ever-suffering fool. I see that page, that pen, that look in your eye. It’s not cannabis that gives you that…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteGood day to you all! Hope everyone’s getting along fine. I present to you another flash fiction story published by Gobblers/Masticadores. This is the story of a poor simpleton and…
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen Ranga was with Sally, he felt like a better person. Not because Sally brought out the goodness in him. But because he was the brown boy who had bagged…
Reading Time: 2 minutesEvery night, Juju would wake up and scream, ‘THE HOUSE IS ON FIRE!’ The first time it happened, his wife, Maya, ran screaming through the house, searching for the fire,…
Reading Time: 2 minutesI will run away. The idea is cemented in my mind. No, there’s nothing you can do to make me stay. If you really cared, this act of reconciliation wouldn’t…
Reading Time: 3 minutesI hate mirrors. They show more than they need to. Every time I pass one, my eyes dart around like scared rabbits. Who wants to see the ugly truth? I…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt’s a pleasure to share another Flash Fiction Story published by Gobblers/Masticadores. The story is about a poverty-stricken man named Mithoo and his companion who is a witness to Mithoo’s…
Reading Time: 3 minutesAli carried the tray to his grandmother’s room. The boy was only seven years old, but he shouldered the responsibility of his mother’s mother like a grown man. But were…