Short Stories

   The railway clock struck 20:00 Venky missed the train.The train that was heading to Chennai from Madurai carrying Venky's fate. A fate which could have landed him a job at the MNC where he was supposed to attend an interview. It stretched along the rails like a rattling snake and disappeared right before his eyes among the commotion inside the railway station .He cursed himself wondering if this was a play of fate. Wasting no time , he started thinking of the alternatives to travel to Chennai. And at this moment time stood still. The Train to OO-la-la                             How could time freeze? The shock tested Venky’s vanity. Before he could react , another train crawled towards him on the same tracks he missed his train. The train looked exactly the same as the one he missed except that its destinat...

Source: Youtube - The Kids Picture Show                                                     In the planet of Mars , in the country of Selsey, in the island of Garcia stood the Garden of Theja . It was the time when humans had inhabitated Mars . Planet Earth had been destroyed by Global Warming and the humans who thought they were a unique species didnt realise there had been atleast a dozen of human alike species on Earth previously , all removed through Ice Ages and other earthly bad phenomena. Nature chose homo sapiens this time. Those who flew by Elon Musk's Mars Colonial transporter to Mars were the only left human beings in the Universe. Those Humans on Mars:  They established the tenets of nation state, private property, capitalism just as in Planet Earth. And Theja one of the multi billionaires from India who made a killi...

What can water do to you? Shut down ATMs Put down electricity Jam traffic Kill people Raise prices Destroy houses                                            Moved at the spread of sea view at Besant Nagar beach on a full moon night, Iniyan fell into deep thoughts on the power of water. Not a few months back, he quarreled with his father, a Ph D scholar at IIT Madras and so nerdy that he had little time for his son than for his research on the Internet of Things(IoT). The quarrel started like a drop, trickled down into a rivulet, gained force as a flood and left them emotionally drained. This left Iniyan guiltier for on Dec 1 he lost his father to water.                  ...

coutesy: hexrpg.com She stood there, She stood there with anger in her eyes and said , “I will kill him tomorrow”   He sat there. He sat there in a meditative state. Nothing mattered to him at that moment. No one could disturb his mind. Not even the threat that he could be killed the next day would disturb him if he were aware of it. Residents of Second cross street, Theriyur knew that if Kitty(aka Krishna) kept quiet he was either sleeping or watching Chota Bheem or biting human flesh ( His neighbourhood   aunt bore the longest bite, 15 minutes at a stretch). Right now he is watching Chota Bheem. Just few minutes back he slapped Reshmi in her cheeks for a reason even he couldn’t figure out, after which he rushed straight to his house, switched on the TV and He sat there. He sat there in a meditative state. Nothing mattered to him at that moment… Kitty and Reshmi became friends today morning , just when Kitty’s mother was trying t...

 Ompuri keshav has a problem.  His name is Ompuri Keshav.  And that makes it OK to call him OK which was not OK with him.                                             Here is why,                      When OK met Neena on Feb 14th at Hiranandani Gardens , Powai , he made a classic Valentine Day's move towards her: Kneeling down with a bouquet of flowers , and asking her, "Will you marry me?" She smiled , started with "OK" and followed it with "hmmm..."  and then remained silent. OK looked sternly at her lips waiting for more words but she remained silent. He again asked, "Will you marry me Neena?" She smiled, said "OK" a...

"We Hide in the Day And Dance in the Nights We Sing with Pain And Scream with Joy We Are The Spirits of The Night"                                          Room no 22 B, 20 kms away from siruseri .... .... ..... Sathya: u believe in ghosts ? Lucas: Me, no way , is there any proof for ghosts? they are just fantasies machi Sathya: hmm, absence of proof is not proof of absence, it shd be 3 am in India now, what are u doing still awake Lucas: he he, working for ur US client, just finished an On Call da, i am literally a ghost now, so stressed up, going to booze Sathya: Idiot , just go an sleep Lucas: ok machi Sathya : Ghost dreams :P Lucas : ha ha Signing off..... Lucas played on Mozarts 40 th symphony Took the whiskey from his refrigerator and poured i...