Category: #fiction
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ALIVA
There she is. Standing right in front of me putting on a white skirt-like dress with pink stripes on, she looks out of the world; another kind of beauty that I haven’t seen until now; a kind of beauty that you once put your eyes on, you just don’t want to look back anywhere except…
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The Longing Within
Her husband was getting back from the devastating war after one long year. And he finally put his feet on his hometown with a hint of smile on his worn out and drained face that had lost all its charm and light in the horrors of the war, yet he managed to bear a smile…
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Ad For A Ghost Hunter
(Published In The Times Of Nothing, Halloween Edition) Experienced ghost-hunters are invited from registered, reputed and experienced Ghost-hunting Agencies/ Firms/ Individuals for the following purposes. 1) Catching the stupid and nonsense ghosts lurking around in our colony in the open daylight. (I called them stupid as I think ghosts must show up at night, right?…
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Mr. Einstein in Cuttack, The Final Chapter
July 1944, Cuttack, British India: Stewart Science College was established near Buxi Bazar, Cuttack with only seven staff; six teachers and a watchman. The principal cut the ribbon and inaugurated the college. As the inauguration was occurring, the watchman heard some hush-hush noise just around the bushes, which were really big near the washroom. He…
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Mr. Einstein in Cuttack, Ep III
Mr. Einstein In Cuttack, Episode III: September 26, 1905, Germany: Phillip Lenard publishes Special Theory of Relativity and Photoelectric Effect at once. These two papers send a wave of wonder and astonishment among his peers as they had never imagined that Lenard was capable of such discovery and imagination. Soon his contemporary physicists like Niels…
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The Storm Within My Abstract Mind
Stacey Kent’s “In The Wee Small Hours of The Morning” playing in the background, I find myself in the midst of a darkish red room surrounded by big heads of brown deers hanging on the walls, staring right at me with their dead eerie eyes. Stacey Kent’s elegant jazz along with the reddish nature of…
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THE INFINITE HORIZONS AND THE BOUNDLESS OCEAN:
Agatha struggles with insomnia which deprives her of having dreams in the night which worked as a portal for her for something beyond her imagination.