Response for the Microfiction Writing Challenge — I need to find her. I need to find my little princess. It was dark night as an old man walked into the graveyard. He was wearing shabby and dirty clothes. As he trudged through the graveyard, he kept murmuring. They can’t take my princess from me. I never let…

Flash Fiction — *grumble* I held my stomach, tightly, as I was lying on my bed. All day long my stomach grumbles and isn’t satisfied with the food my mother gives me. “He is a growing boy, he needs more food,” My grandmother had said once. “But if he eats too much, he…

Flash Fiction — *Ding* *Dong* At this hour of the night, who could it be? It can’t be Rashid. He is on a business trip. Then who? I see a box wrapped in flowery paper foil when I open the door. It is a gift. But who sent it? There is no name…

Fiction — “1… 2… 3” Monika counted until the last one. “There are fifty roses. That’s enough, I think. Mama will be happy to see this,” Monika said while returning home from the flower boutique. A year ago, her mother had to be sent to a hospital in a nearby city. Though…

Fiction — “Do you have the time? Do you ever?” Priya’s words came back to me while I was sitting in the waiting room. She left me a month ago, and since then she has neither come back nor picked up my calls. We have had a lot of rows before, but…

Flash fiction — “Really anything?” my 5 years old sister, Shreya, chirped as she ate her breakfast. “Not always. But since tomorrow is your birthday, the tooth fairy might give you anything you wish for. But you have to be a good girl.” I told my sister, whose one tooth fell off today…

It’s already 3:30 pm, with only half an hour left to report to school. I was both nervous and elated. How could I not be? This is my first school trip and I don’t want to miss it. Yesterday, our teacher had told us that we will be going on…

For a week now it’s been boring to go out to cycle alone. I never did. I was always accompanied by my best friend, Sushil. But now we ended up having an argument. A big one, at that. It’s not like we never had any arguments before. We did. But…

While I was enjoying the cool afternoon air from my house’s roof, I notice the lights switching on in a house 2 blocks away. Have the residents come back after 2 long years of absence? Or have they sold the house? Whatever it is, I won’t be able to see…