“You held me tight in your strong arms.” Sita was sitting in the living room holding the 8-page letter Gayatri wrote to Sita’s husband Sitapati. The letter left a bad taste in her mouth. Her face turned pale. Sitapati has…
Category: Stories
A Creator by Bommireddipalli Surya Rao,
Gangayya woke up early in the morning, took bath, put on ash patches on his body, the kumkum dot on his forehead, picked the machete and stepped outside into the street. He was facing the only problem—must earn the day’s…
Revisiting childhood by Kandukuri Venkata Mahalakshmi
Katyayini start wondering. To be frank, why is she going there now? Did her cousin and his wife really invite her because of their affection for her, because they wanted her to attend the wedding? Her cousin mailed the invitation…
BEYOND BELIEF by Polapragada Rajyalakshmi
She was new to the town to start with. On top of it, the houses were so far apart with huge open spaces in between as if they were flung around on purpose. The place was strewn with big bushes,…
Uhaagaanam-9 by Tenneti Hemalata
udvaahe niyatih nayatyati balaa venaam samaam prakphalaih An ancient astrologer, Varahamihara, believed that the fate would make a man tie the three knots around the bride’s neck only at the appropriate moment. We often hear people say, “He survived because…
Life Imitates Art by C. Vedavati
I am not sure whether this is a story or not. Nor do I know if this should be started only in this manner. They say that the stories should come from people’s lives and those stories are only the…
Virtual Reality by Dr. Sivasankar, Papineni
“Supriya” “Hmmm.” “Not able to sleep?” “Yes. The thunder, lightning are not letting me sleep. I feel my entire heart being cloudy, Manisha.” “I too feel too restless to sleep. We are roommates but hardly ever speak to each other.…
POET’S WIFE by Nayani Krishna Kumari.
There are only two characters in this story—the Poet who just returned home and the wife busy with chores at home. Between these two characters, there is the pen which is busy chiseling the letters, passing comments off and on,…
Men’s Special by Madhurantakam Rajaram
The beauty and enjoyment in life comes mainly from unpredictable and unforeseen events, I guess. For instance, I never thought I would meet Narahari after nearly a decade. On my way back home from a wedding in a distant…
Shattered by Singaraju Lingamurthy
As soon as Ahmed saw the office order informing him that he was assigned to Mysore office, he screamed “oh, Allah!”, crashed on the chair and tipped his head to the side. All of us, the entire staff gathered around…