Fiction in a Flash
Fiction in a Flash spins stories and poems, short in appearance but big in essence. Some are specks of imagination while others reflect life itself.
Tag: domestic violence
Don’t Be Late
*repost* She stripped off her dress and stood in front of the mirror. That tiny scar below her left eye, the first time, the first beating,twenty days after a fairy tale wedding. A minor glitch; happens in all marriages, she had rationalised, not wanting…
The Wife
The shimmering silvery waters are seducing her, promising her of joy, a lack of which has today driven her to where she is standing now. In the middle of nowhere, in the vastness of a shore playing hide and seek with the sea, an…
Despair
She crouches in the corner, in terror. The door slams. Hugging her knees, she sits still, afraid one movement of hers would make him return.She is numb to the pain now. It is the silence after the storm that she dreads now. A silence…
Escape
The summer stung, the buzz of the mosquitoes deafened, the afternoons dragged.Every day of that summer, the little boy thought of escape. Today, he just sat with his mother and watched her cook dinner. The roti puffed up as his mother flipped it with…
When A River Cries
“We will not know if a river cries, Ma,” muses my little poet.I sigh. I, too, am a river, son. I cry, a lot, but no one can see my tears. I cry behind closed doors, in bathrooms, at nights. I cry to release…
Fiction in a Flash
- My Roaming Soul September 8, 2019
- The Afternoons of My Childhood August 24, 2019
- Clouds August 3, 2019
- N for Nervous July 27, 2019
- Rest June 29, 2019
- A Common Friend June 16, 2019
- The Butterfly June 9, 2019
- The Big City June 1, 2019
- The Crimson Skies May 18, 2019
- Afternoons of my Childhood May 11, 2019
