Rendezvous Gone Wrong

Read the first Part here. I sat for a long time on that bench and chewed a bit of tobacco to simply stop myself doing something more drastic and obvious. Like, maybe, something that would kill me quicker. I shouldn’t’ve been afraid though. That bumbling idiot, Khurshid had always taken care of his end of …

Smoky thoughts

I pulled the trigger and click. I was convinced I was dead. The pistol was now empty and I had no reason to believe otherwise. Flinging it away, ensuring it carefully landed on the couch, I sat back and thought of the life that I had lived; was it worth thinking about? Maybe it was. …

Battle of Wills

There was a padlock that harassed him a lot at his library. The attendant who locked it for the day was always very meticulous about the manner of his locking the door. The door in question lead to the lending section and was located on the first floor landing of the 4 floor library. He …

Nevermore

It was a Friday. Of course, it was. After all, that is the entire basis of this story. If not for that, I wouldn't have let my train of thought run wild and get lost within its slipstream and let myself be fed upon by these misgivings. It was the weekly Friday namaaz during which …

Unaware

Once upon a time, there was a relatively short, relatively fat and bespectacled boy of 17 whose definition of a good day was when a girl looked at him. But, unlike every (mostly) 17-year-old boy fresh out of school looking forward to the relative freedom of college life, he was paranoid of not being accepted. …

Railway Station Rendezvous

He was walking at an easy pace. A pace that he had empirically proven signified a lazy stroll, a pace that reflected an unburdened heart and mind. He didn’t want people to know that he was in a hurry to reach somewhere. His clothes were an odd combination of working pants and an un-tucked buttoned …

Just me

I looked at her with a casual calm air of a poor person surveying an expensive piece of silverware; nonchalance etched on the face, but jittery nerves playing havoc on the inside. She, on her part, played the perfect role of silverware being stared at. She stood looking at me without batting an eye. She …

A Study in Dichotomy

****************** She had that exact ‘broken smile’ that I had imagined what a broken smile would look like. Every time Levine crooned the line, I was transported in a dimension where time was unending, boundary-less and infinite. A warm glow would rise from deep inside and spread itself like the lights of the sun and …

Beauty by the poolside

She was lying stark naked by the poolside. Naked, except the casual towel thrown over her calves covering her all the way to her toes; she was wearing black nylon socks. Apart from that, the only thing that covered her nakedness, she only had the whitest and lightest possible top that covered her from her …

Chai Pav

They spoke quietly as if afraid that they will draw attention to themselves. Though they were aware of it, they pretended to not notice the stares that followed their every moment. They pretended that it didn’t bother them. They took care that they broke off pieces of their kadak pavs slowly, mitigating the crunch of …