This is actually an index, an index of all my works till date, including a few which are in the draft stage. Apart from the obvious intent of wanting to show off, this book would also serve as a guide, so that any reader can find out about my writings, the genre, a hint of what it is about as well as the status of the same.Updated as of May 1, 2020…
A (rather another) collection of poems...Various forms and rhymes.__________________________________________________Enso is a sacred symbol in Zen Buddhism meaning circle, or sometimes, circle of togetherness. It is traditionally drawn using only one brushstroke as a meditative practice in letting go of the mind and allowing the body to create, as the singular brushstroke allows for no modifications. While at first glance, the enso symbol appears no more than a misshapen circle, it symbolizes many things: the beauty in imperfection, the art of letting go of expectations, the circle of life, and connection. The enso is a manifestation of the artist at the moment of creation and the acceptance of our innermost self. It symbolizes strength, elegance, and one-mindedness.…
This is a collection of poems for the PoetsPub Summer challenge.______________________________________________evanescent /ɛvəˈnɛs(ə)nt,iːvəˈnɛs(ə)nt/(adjective)soon passing out of sight, memory, or existence...quickly fading or disappearing...tending to vanish like vapor...early 18th century (in the sense 'almost imperceptible'): from Latin evanescent- 'disappearing', from the verb evanescere…
A collection of poems written for the National Poetry Writing Month - April 2021.…
✬ 2021 Round One Ambassador Picks✩ Round One Qualifier✪ Formerly titled 'The Chocolate Thief'Verdura, the land of Vegetablis. Earth - erstwhile home to Humans.Earth is devoid of most of its human population, but the Humans have not finished with Earth. For Earth is the only place they know where Chocolate can grow. But when Humans discover that there is another planet where Cacao can flourish, they are desperate to use Verdura for growing more cacao trees to meet the never ending demand for chocolates.Verdura is troubled when a pumpkin spy is captured. Of all their fears, Humans are dreaded the most and the Vegetablis and Fructus are terrified of being discovered. The Vegetablis and Fructus get help from an unexpected ally, the Earth Warriors, who despite being Humans themselves, do not agree with the greedy practices of the rest of their species.It is the War for Chocolate, one that would end in disaster for one or more of the planets involved.❉ Genre: Children's Fiction with a dash of fantasy ❉ Submission for ONC 2021 - based on prompt 37…
⋆☆⋆ ONC 2021 Longlister⋆☆⋆ #1 on the #Opennovellacontest2021 on December 6, 2021Gāyathri is a strong willed girl. A survivor. And an orphan.Bruised and broken from the accident which claimed her parents' lives, she is unsure of her future when she learns of the terms of her father's will. She is reluctant to stay with her paternal grandparents, whom she has never seen, but with four weeks to her eighteenth birthday, she is still a minor and has no choice but follow her father's wishes.She plans to stay the required four weeks and then live her life on her terms.Gāyathri is determined to dislike her grandparents and the family she has never met. Armed with a ceramic jar filled with notes that her father scribbled on, she takes comfort from those words, convinced her father is still around to guide her. What she encounters is not what she expected. What she learns, she never imagined. It gradually shreds her assumptions and shatters her preconceived notions. The final truth, albeit a small one, leaves her desolate and desperate.It forces her to reassess everything she has believed. And to make a choice. To accept that her life was a lie and run away from the family she had always wanted to belong to. Or to use the fragments of truth to be the daughter she wanted to be.❉ Genre: General ❉ Submission for ONC 2021 - based on prompts 30, 33 and 74❉ Cover Credit - painting: halfsaree_girl_by_padmakrishna_db410g5 on DeviantArt.…
A collection of poems - for the PoetsPub's weekly challenge and contests for the year 2020. Also includes poems written for the random prompts given by PoetsPub.________________________________________________________Sillage : /siːˈjɑːʒ/ (noun - French):The scent that lingers in the air;the trial left in the water;the impression made in space after something has been and gone;the trace of someone's perfume…
How do you write a story?"This is how you do it: you sit at the keyboard and put one word after the other till it is done. It is that easy and that hard."~Neil Gaiman~•❅──────✧❅✦❅✧──────❅•A collection of stories written for the prompts given by @Ink_Lovers.…
One man - determined to save...G Raghuveera Rao is a man of principles and honour. A man of integrity and valour. A man now desperate enough to make a deal with the Devil himself, if that is what it takes to save his son.One favour - destroy to save...The Devil has no use for Raghuveera's soul, though he does want his skills. And hence places a different kind of deal on the table.One End - disastrous...Raghuveera Rao takes up the deal. Battling his growing unease and grappling with gradual loss of his morality, he realises that no deal with the Devil is straightforward and that the price demanded might not be worth the deal. ✥ Genre: General / Spiritual (Philosophy with a touch of paranormal)✥ Submission for ONC 2020 - (prompts 4 and 45)✥ ONC 2020 Long ListerCOMPLETED…
Sifar, the urdu/arabic for 'nothingness' Fits this collection of random rambling mess, Which for better or for worse, Are all in poetic verse.Featured in WP_Poetry profile - Reading list : RandomLimericks, sonnets, rhymes, free verse and haiku too.Also included are:❤ The winning entry for the April 2018 contest - April is Greening.❤ The six poems written for the Poetry Gauntlet 2018 that won the 5th place ❤ The winning entry for the October 2018 contest - Courage in Your Own❤ The winning entry (third place) for the February 2019 contest - Hope❤ The winning entry for Mystery Food Writing Contest - Tacos❤ The winning entry for February 2022 contest - What is in a name?❤ The winning entry (contest held by TeamofDreams) - ABC Race__________________________________________…
Till six months ago, she had been Ragini Gadodia, a loved daughter and adored granddaughter. Till six days ago, she had been Ragini Maheshwari, married to the man she loved above all, loved enough to kill her sister, or try to, twice.Six hours ago her world turned upside down and now, she was not sure who she was anymore. Her family had disowned her and the man she loved had turned his back on her. She had no place to go, no one to turn to, no idea what to do next.All she knew was that some way, some how, she would have to make up for the sins she had committed, even if those whom she had sinned against did not want to have anything to do with her.This is her journey, from sin to atonement, from remorse to redemption. A journey from being lost to finding herself. A journey through hiraeth to reach home.___________________________Hiraeth (pronounced [hiraɪ̯θ]) is a Welsh concept of longing for home, which can be loosely translated as 'nostalgia', or, more commonly, 'homesickness'. Many Welsh people claim 'hiraeth' is a word which cannot be translated, meaning more than solely "missing something" or "missing home." To some, it deploys the meaning of missing a time, an era, or a person. It is associated with the bittersweet memory of missing something or someone, while being grateful of that/ their existence.____________________________…
Sanskaar Maheshwari was a methodical and meticulous man, who always had a plan, a couple of backup plans and maybe, a backup backup plan. It appeared that the Universe approved of his meticulousness, for his life went as he planned, like clockwork; till one fine day, there is a blip in the Universe which causes a disturbance in his life, one for which he had no plan.For one full year from that fated day, Sanskaar received them daily, come rain or shine; a bouquet of six flowers and a note. The flowers varied, the words differed, the timings were irregular but the bouquet and note were constant. They were so constant that soon Sanskaar accepted the same as part of his daily routine and never paid much attention to them; till the day they stopped, as suddenly as they had started. Once the notes ceased, their absence became a disruption and Sanskaar starts to miss them. Unknown to him, those notes, unplanned and unexpected, had become a part of him and his life. The onset of the notes had been a minor aberration but the cessation threatens to steal his peace of mind, as he realised that those notes somehow brightened his days.A part of him also worries about what could have happened to the writer and finally, unable to bear the ordeal of not knowing, why the notes started and why they stopped, he decides to seek out the anonymous letter writer. With nothing but the 365 notes to help him, he sets out on a quest to find the letter writer, one that leads him to a unexpected encounter; for he would meet chaos, a perfectly put together mess which would change his life and turn his world upside down.Update Schedule - Erratic - apologies for the same…
This is my collection of writings for the three hundred and sixty five day writing challenge - where one has to write something daily, every day, for one whole year, based on the prompts provided - as part of an exercise to improve creative writing.This book consists of my writing for six months (183 days) for the year 2018. The rest are in Book II…
This is my collection of writings for the three hundred and sixty five day writing challenge - where one has to write something daily, every day, for one whole year, based on the prompts provided - as part of an exercise to improve creative writing.This book consists of my writing for six months (182 days) for the year 2019. The writings for 2018 (Day 1 to Day 183) are in Book I.…
Short stories written for the Reading List Marathon - a series of fortnightly contests held by Wattpad Short Story._________________________________________________🏆 He who Smelt it - Honourable mention🏆 The Clockwork Universe - First place🏆 Sempiternal - First place🏆 Those Little Nothings - Third place🏆One Last Breath - Second place…
A set of stories; tiny and small, to amuse or enthrall, for the month of October. All written for the prompts given by @Adultfiction , @ChickLit , @Microbytes , and @Paranormal profiles for their 30 days of Spooky Tales series.Round winners:🏆 Day 3 - Cursed🏆 Day 17 - Seven Devils…