Short Story

No Strings Attached

“That’s pretty much it Mr. Nekkanti” He handed me the receipt. I nodded. “You will get your goods in a month. We will keep in touch.”

The truck rolled away. I turned around to face an almost empty house. It had been my home. Now it was just a set of rooms — an empty…

The Great Flood

“There is a flood alert you know! Looks like the road ahead is under water now. You still want to go that way?” Geeta asked Ishaan.
 
 Ishaan started his motorcycle. “We’d be home before you knew it.” 
 
 She put the helmet on and made herself comfortable on the pillion seat. “My dad will kill me if…

The Accident

Vinita Das is my close friend. In fact she is my only friend. Ever since she found me twenty years ago when I was a three year old kid in Madras, she and I have become inseparable. We are friends of the highest degree — we have so far managed to remain that way.

Hail God

“Hail God” the chants continued unabated. The atmosphere was electrifying. The devotees were all in a trance. They were no particular hurry to get a peek at God. For most of them, waiting in the line was an integral part of the entire experience that reached its zenith with a fleeting glance at the deity.

A Vivid Imagination

“Am I imagining you?” I looked at her suspiciously.

She burst out laughing. “No you are not.”

I nodded.

“Maybe you are imagining us!” She said.

Confession

Father Gallagher looked helplessly at the near empty Church hall that Sunday. Of late, religion and God had not quite managed to pique the interest of the town. There were three folks that day at the congregation. He gave the usual sermon extolling the virtues of leading a good life and finding peace in it…

An Official Love Story

She walked into the conference room and immediately stopped my heart from beating. I could not take my eyes off her. I knew she would feel uncomfortable by my shameless stare. But I couldn’t help it. There was something about her — quite magical — and really magnetic — that managed to…

A Conversation with God

I stood there on the top of the hill completely captivated by the beauty of the valley in front of me. I had my camera — firmly set up on the tripod. I had already taken close to a hundred pictures of the valley. However I wanted to take a close up portrait of a person with the valley…

Olive Branch

It was a freak accident on the highway. The deer had managed to cross barely the first two lanes of the road when the car hit it at 80 miles an hour. Five lives were lost in an instant, including the deer.