Hello everyone, As most of you know, my short story, ‘The Descent,’ has been published in the Fall 2021 issue of Jaggery Lit Journal. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration if I said that I consider this to be the greatest accomplishment in my short writing career. I feel like I have come a long way …
Day 1 I enter the Bengaluru airport, walk up to the ticket counters and ask for a seat in the plane flying to Chennai. The petite girl with the perfectly coiffed hair in the counter stares at me for a moment before nodding and issuing me the ticket. The ticket doesn’t cost me anything; Silly …
Someone once said the past always catches up with you, however fast you run and try to evade it. I don’t know much about it. Why do I keep coming back to this place then? I was created here – I’m more than flesh and blood. I’m sand, sea breeze, sweat, music, and sex. My …
Alisi remembered the hot summer day her triplets were born. The kids, the result of a fling, grew up without knowing their father. Alisi was their everything. By forty-five, she had become a grandmother. Her twenty-strong family including the sons and daughter in law, celebrated her fiftieth last year. It was a great party. …
‘Please!’ I sputter and cough disgusting stuff into the gutter before looking at the repulsed passerby, ‘Point me to the nearest dentist.’ The scrawny, rag-clad man stares at me as if I had sprouted a second head. It was obvious that he did not understand a word of what I said. ‘Dentist! Please! Emergency!’ I …
‘We will form two teams,’ Commander said, his eyes burning bright. ‘Team A,’ He pointed out, ‘Your job will be to nullify the security. Once you are done, you will signal Team B and return to camp. Team B will receive their instructions separately.’ We nodded, saluted, and left the tent. That night, we executed …
