Very short fiction #29

Played different roles in dramas till I was 15. Life, and adulthood made me forget the stage. Now at seventy, the audience gives me a standing ovation, and I rediscover my childhood again.

Short fiction #40

It’s 9 PM when the movie finishes, 9:30 when we reach the hostel. The mess is long closed, and we take the long way to reach our rooms to avoid the warden. Hunger gnaws my insides, the popcorn and samosa I ate during the movie have long been digested. Our snack boxes in our room …

Short fiction #39

All my life, I had made choices that were difficult. I had chosen to walk the road not taken, not because it was different, or overgrown, but because for me standing at the crossroads, it had seemed the right path. These were choices my grandfather never approved of. Of all his grandchildren, he expected the …