Welcome to the one hundred and eighty ninth edition of Fiction Monday. “Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist but in the ability to start over.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Stories From Last Week For the Joy of colourful living by AnamikaAmong colors by SuzanaColors of Life, of Love by Vinitha Fiction Monday The idea is … More Fiction Monday – 189
Colors of My Life – Tints of grey stalked me all along, but I knew I couldn’t fall in love with the color that remained a stalker of my life. Black and white, however, remained my friends in the background. They too, were far from coloring my life in their hues. Neither unfortunate nor favored, … More Colors of Life, of Love #FictionMonday
Isn’t that the truth? When you don’t know, you simply don’t. Then why pretend otherwise? Do you really believe that you know everything? Isn’t that foolish of you? Nobody knows everything. Not me. Not you, evidently. Yet you insist that you know — not just what others went through and are going through, but even … More When You Don’t Know, You Don’t Know! #MundaneMonday
Welcome to the one hundred and eighty eighth edition of Fiction Monday. “To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try.” — Rosa Parks Stories From Last Week Stop a little bit! by SuzanaThe Flaw In The Plan by Vinitha Fiction Monday The idea … More Fiction Monday – 188
Maya was skilled in making everything perfect. Each day unfolded flawlessly under her watchfulness; not even a whisper of wind was allowed to disrupt the serenity of her home. Perfection, she believed, was an art achieved through constant awareness and unwavering alertness. Maya took pride in her meticulous attention to detail in designing and organizing … More The Flaw In The Plan
“In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.” — Alice Walker So is a cactus. I’d never seen a cactus in the first 24 years of my life. Well, in Kerala, where I was born and brought up, I couldn’t even imagine … More The Desert Plant #ThursdayTreeLove
Welcome to the one hundred and eighty seventh edition of Fiction Monday. “Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.” —Willie Nelson Stories From Last Week Reunion by AnamikaTiny Teachers by ShilpaA fiction thought by SuzanaBusy! by Vinitha Fiction Monday The idea is simple – to write. On Mondays, I will post … More Fiction Monday – 187
It was an accident—stumbling upon my draft folder in Medium. Lucky that I did though, as just last week I had hastily jotted down a piece while I was out, fully intending to publish it later that day. Like most pieces in that particular folder, this one too would’ve been destined to live a life … More Hiding in the Draft #MundaneMonday
“I am busy.” The words tumbled out without hesitation. Her life was wrapped in those three words. “I am busy.” It rescued her, from pretending to care about matters that she couldn’t care less about. But the weight of the pretense of being busy burdened her slowly. Unable to pinpoint what exactly kept her occupied, … More Busy! #FictionMonday
I tried. All day yesterday, whenever I could sit in front of my laptop, I tried to write. I wrote, too — a couple of stories? prose poems? — I don’t know what to call them. I had a few stunning ideas looming in my head, and I jotted them down. It can’t exactly be … More The Story Continues #MundaneMonday
Void Thoughts 