N is for A Nice Guy
N is for noir fiction (my first attempt). And N is also for a Nice Guy.
L is for Letters I’ll Never Send
I’m falling utterly behind. So I decided to post this already written story and catch up on the missing three later. Here’s another attempt at epistolary, this time in a more traditional, simple manner. Two letters I give you for today’s A to Z Challenge in the form of L…
A Professional Woman
A fortnight ago, a friend and I parted ways. He came to me, looking for comforting, for sympathy. I gave him instead, honesty. Words were exchanged and the friendship is now a thing of the past. The thing is, I never offered comfort or sympathy, only outright, unvarnished honesty. We’ve…
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K is for Kitne Aadmi The?
A Tall Tales take on one of the most popular Bollywood stories ever. You only need to know, Kitne Aadmi The?
H is for Happiness
I usually avoid religious references. But what are myths but great stories of power? I picked Happiness for today. And there was only one character to portray its essence.
When Douchey Men Have Daughters
All that noise and gunfire and the sound of grown men weeping? That’s just the sound of someone getting his just desserts.
G is for Gift
I tried an exercise of epistolary format so I used a story you may already know. It’s about a gift.
F is for Fear Economy (Feardom)
Feardom is a world of ghouls, monsters-under-the-bed, aliens & otherworld creatures. They manage freshly dead souls’ passage into Feardom or wherever else they may be bound, with all the expected errors, goof-ups and emergencies. They also run a fear economy, collecting, creating, processing and distributing fear across the living world.
E is for Evil
I wanted to do something dark and all the E words I could think of, were positive & bright. Exuberant. Elaborate. Excess. A friend suggested EVIL. How did I *not* think of that?
D is for Dread
Today’s story came from the prompt ‘DREAD’.