Flash Fiction Story – Beep…beep…beep…

Heart rate monitor machine

Reading Time: 2 minutes Beep…beep…beep… I’m all alone. Day – night seem the same. I’m always engulfed by a sharp, white light. I still haven’t warmed up to this hospital bed. Home is a distant memory. One I dream about with my… Read More

Flash Fiction Story – A Pink Balloon

A child's blue sneakers and a pink balloon

Reading Time: 2 minutes She was there. And then she wasn’t. Ten seconds, and my world had changed, forever. The horror. No words can explain it. I shouldn’t have let go of her tiny hand. But she wanted a pink balloon. She… Read More

Flash Fiction Story – An Anniversary Gift

Two hikers standing on a mountain cliff

Reading Time: 2 minutes It’s hard to have happy thoughts when you know that you’re dying. Also, I still haven’t gotten over my wife’s death. She fell off a cliff four days ago, plunging to her death. She couldn’t have survived. I… Read More

Flash Fiction Story – The Village Bride

golden red bangles lying on a red wedding saree

Reading Time: 2 minutes Today I will be married, and the entire village is invited. Is that why my mother cries? I have seen her wet cheeks and swollen eyes. Yet she pretends it’s the dusty wind that bothers her. Is she… Read More

Flash Fiction Story – My Lovely Lady

stone statue blowing into conch shell

Reading Time: 2 minutes She’s so beautiful that I want to stare at her every minute of the day. How do I explain such exquisiteness? Her eyes. The windows to her soul. They follow me. When I walk, sit, or just lay… Read More

Flash Fiction Story – No Longer His Girlfriend

wooden coffin in a funeral home

Reading Time: 2 minutes I’m the girlfriend. Or was. He’s dead now. There was a funeral. I wasn’t invited. We lived together, laughed together, doing everything a normal couple was expected to do. He was twenty years older. So what. I was… Read More

Flash Fiction Story – Hands Up!

Close up of hand pointing gun

Reading Time: 2 minutes Hands up! That’s all I had to say. My brother Manu made me practice it a hundred times. Or was it a thousand times? I can’t count. What do I know? Manu says I’m a simpleton. Papa called… Read More

FLASH FICTION STORY: Those Unforgiving Eyes

Close-up of man with intense stare

Reading Time: 2 minutes Ten fingers, ten toes, twenty reasons to avoid his gaze. I counted them with care, assuming he would tire and leave me to my eccentricities. But he waited, a wolfish greed gleaming in his eyes, marking its territory… Read More

Goodbye Sweet January

Reading Time: 2 minutes Flash fiction is a piece of writing short on words but bursting with energy.

Am I allowed to be a Versatile Writer?

Reading Time: 3 minutes Versatile writing is a quality that can be developed. Never doubt the ability of a writer’s creativity.