Short Stories

This time’s short story is a bit different. It is not a narrative or a story in its literal meaning. I have experimented with something different. This time

My Gemini conversation was working perfectly fine on my laptop. I told it to research on poverty for my project (I definitely did not tell it to structure it in

The arrival of the storm was apparent. It was not just the clouds that signalled the storm’s coming, but the weather had become similar to that of a

Crowds were not my best friend. It was my biggest foe. Any path that veers away from sweaty and noisy people was always in sight for me. If

Exams were meant to be long but not this long. It seemed like we were in the exam hall for a decade. I was done with my exam.

My mission was simple. I had to enter the grocery store, get a carton of milk, pay for it and get back home, just in time for a

Ahhhhhhhhhh! My terrified shriek was drowned by the late-night traffic outside. My hands seemed to have bathed in sweat and my heartbeat pounded like rock music. My body

Weird things never happened to me before but all of that was soon to change when I conjured myself a doppelgänger. I really wish I never bought that

I was sitting in a homey chair with a floral cushion, sipping my freshly brewed coffee. I was just enjoying the floral atmosphere in the cafe when I

There’s just so much a stray, street dog can see. My fur stank like the gutters and maybe that was because it had seen a lot of what