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My Beautiful Fantasy

Fantasy 12:30 am, it was raining heavily.. the street lamps were blinking like humans blink their eyes when tears come up to them. I was standing beside a telephone booth near the bus stop for ...
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I'll always be with you

They were lying next to each other.Their bodies were embracing each other’s touch. It felt so real. And as if to prove that it was all true, she turned her face and looked at him and after a long ...
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The Parent Of All Professions: Teaching

Arun and Sumitra were very ecstatic since morning, as their only daughter Ananya was coming home after completing her Masters. Mr. Arun was a civil engineer and his wife Sumitra was a homemaker. They ...
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దైవం !!

చాలా రోజుల  తరువాత నేను కూర్చున్న క్లాస్ లో అమ్మాయిలు కూడా కూర్చున్నారు ఎందుకో ఏమో మా నాన్న నన్ను చిన్నప్పటి నుండి కో ఎడ్యుయేషన్ వద్దు అని నాపై రుద్దేవాడు ,కానీ ఈసారి మాత్రం ఆయన మాట నెగ్గగలేదు ...
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The Disabled Mother

The rectangular piece of paper shivered in Amy's hand in the cold breeze. She looked at Aidan. He was almost nodding off to sleep in his car seat. She made sure that he is securely buckled up before ...
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Seminar

The place was near a shore, somewhere from where all could see the earth touching the sea as well as the sky. Where the azure of the sky reflected on the sea, which touched the golden sands. But then ...
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She understood

She understood (A short story) ======================== Aisha and Rajiv were a couple. In the beginning days of their marriage, they were very happy. They loved each other. They could not live ...
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Unspoken

She's seven. Dreams are born in her younger soul. She doesn't play kitchen game anymore. The birds are flying and she wants to be one of them. The aeroplane is her new toy. She wants to conquer the ...
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Old School Romance

It was New Years already? The year had flown by in a jiffy and as usual I'd broken all my resolutions right on the next day that I made them. It had been an absolutely horrible year (that's what I ...
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English stories

Even though I'm a native Telugu writer sometimes I use to have interest in writing stories in English. My wish was fulfilled when pratilipi introduced English and please read my stories if possible ...
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Hope

He made a final decision. He is not going home today empty-handed. It’s been three months Lakshman last had a job. Lakshman is a daily wage laborer. He did not expect to see this day when he ...
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18 parts

ഗന്ധർവനും.... പിന്നെ....? ഭാഗം 1

ഗന്ധർവ്വനും... പിന്നെ? ------------------------------------- ഭാഗം 1 തുലാവർഷ മഴ തിമിർത്തു പെയ്യുകയാണ്.. ലേഖ പതുക്കെ തന്റെ മുറിയുടെ ജനാല തുറന്നു.മഴ എന്നും എല്ലാവർക്കും ഒരു കൗതുകമാണ്.. അവൾ മനസ്സിൽ ...
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Sarah's Motherhood

Her three-year-old was singing ‘whoopsy daisy angel’ for the hundredth time, looking at her, in the hope that her mummy dearest will join her bed, sooner or later. She with her big, black eyes of a ...
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Seeing the real YOU

Ramesh is a bright engineer working as a Manager in a leading automotive company in India. He is nearing 40. His wife Swathi is also gainfully employed in a reputed audit firm in Bangalore. Both hail ...
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Calendar

Every evening, cool breeze from the Ganges used to find its way through the solitary window of Baby’s shack, after the siren from the jute mill shrieked to announce a recess for the second shift, on ...
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The Last Wicket

It was his debut match and he was the last batsman, the last wicket. It was a one day match. Well it was a one day match in the World Cup. To state it accurately it was the finals of the World Cup. ...
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The Girl in Blue

Alia, clad in a blue polka dot frock, cried out from her colourfully decked up stall that faced the frolicking waves of the sea on the beach, “Only five rupees per story! Only five rupees per story!” ...
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Maria kissed a boy

Maria had never kissed anyone in her twenty-three years of life. On special occasions such as the New Year’s Eve and Valentine’s Day, she preferred to stay home to prevent herself from the magic in ...
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Some Truths in Hiding

Bruhannala is the name Arjuna used when he was in disguise as a eunuch for a year at King Virat’s court. He was cursed by Urvashi to live for a year as eunuch . This episode is taken from the first ...
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Lines Men Draw

You could call our Mukherjee Para ancient. In 1947, it was an hour’s ride from Khulna by a horse tonga. A bicycle took about forty minutes. Boys who had a bicycle, kept it squeaky clean and flaunted ...
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