Tag: Short story
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The Donkey’s Burden
Two donkeys argue over emptiness and borrowed glory, while Nasruddin quietly audits their delusions and discovers that proximity to greatness is not authorship.
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Balance Sheet at the Boarding House.
Banno itemizes tea, laundry, and emotional damage; Dando audits salt. In a house called boarding, arithmetic sharpens into rebellion—and invisibility finally gets receipts.
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Get Another Name!
A pseudonym isn’t identity theft; it’s self-theft with artistic intent—stealing courage from your timid self and publishing before fear can trademark your silence.
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Lavatory Of Requirement
At 30,000 feet and zero inspiration, Akshara discovers that writer’s block, like a lavatory door, only opens when desperation politely knocks.
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The Discarded.
She returned not to answers or escape, but to breath, warmth, and the quiet insistence of remaining.
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Buddy The Elf & Crime Junkies.
The telephone rang like an accusation. Not a polite ring, not a missed-call courtesy, but a shrill, bell-ridden insistence, as if someone had wired December directly into the receiver. It was the kind of ringing that demanded to be answered immediately, without context, without caution. On National Crime Junkie Day, ignoring a ringing phone felt…
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