Reading Time: 3 minutesSheebu Weds Sheffa The yellow, rectangular pieces of paper littered the desolate street. The warm breeze scattered them, arranging them in haphazard patterns before displacing them again. The wafer-thin bits…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWelcome To TUESDAY FLASH FICTION at GOBBLERS/MASTICADORES! A man is more concerned with his death than life. He spends years preparing for the gathering at his funeral. But an ironic…
Reading Time: 2 minutesI know something that I wish I didn’t. This knowledge came to me in the form of a confession. But I call it panic-stricken sharing. The person who gave me…
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe boy hated his name. It made him want to hide in the shadows and question his parents’ wisdom. But the nonsensical tag was more the mother’s doing than the…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWELCOME to another edition of TUESDAY FLASH FICTION at Gobblers / Masticadores. What happens when a stupid game becomes a fight for life? Is it so easy for madness to…
Reading Time: 2 minutesThey call me Big…Boy…Diddy… giggity…wiggity…tiggy… ooo yeh…ooo yeh…ooo yeh… Big…Boy…Diddy… This is me chilling. Taking in life and taking out crap. Literally. I’m in the bathroom. On the pot. My…
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: < 1 minuteIf you are in the mood for a wonderful short story and writing that makes your jaw drop to the floor, then LITERALLY STORIES is the right choice for you.…
Reading Time: 3 minutes‘I don’t know’. One hour and thirteen questions later I was repeating the same three words. But the two men in front of me didn’t seem convinced. They looked at…