He stared at the ice cream van with longing in his eyes. Unfurling his fingers to reveal a shiny ten rupee coin resting in his grubby palm.… Read more “The Ice Cream Cone”
Tag: stories
The Climbing Spinach Trellis
I fell in love with short stories when I was in school. We had to read from a textbook of Bengali short stories and I was introduced… Read more “The Climbing Spinach Trellis”
The Heart of the Matter
A friend asked me on Twitter after reading my post on writing short fiction, how does one get the reader to experience an emotional connect with what… Read more “The Heart of the Matter”
The Memory Bank
I’m not a terribly disciplined person when it comes to writing. I have a noisy mind, random thoughts running parallel to one another at any given point… Read more “The Memory Bank”
The Long and the Short of It: Writing Short Stories
“Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the… Read more “The Long and the Short of It: Writing Short Stories”
