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Three Line Tales, Week 145 Three Line Tales, Week 145 ROLLING ON… Maria woke up to the roar of the steam engine and as she looked through her frost filled window the sight that greeted her was pristine, other wordly, magical to say the least. There, laid out in front of her, was a feast for the … Continue reading neelwrites/threelinetales/haibun/09/11/2018
SCENE STEALER By Neel Anil Panicker “This is the best scene that I have seen in my entire movie making career, and now it your job to go ahead and find this girl and her dog and make them an offer to star in my upcoming movie, an offer that would make these real stars … Continue reading neelwrites/scenestealer/TTC/ThreeLineTales/FOWC/flash/fiction/18/10/2018
A SUDDEN CHANGE OF PLANS By Neel Anil Panicker As soon as the balloon burst, all of us knew little Priya would get upset. And sure enough she commenced her crying routine. It was a bright summer morning and as is our wont we were heading towards Silver Hills Lodge, the out of town … Continue reading neelwrites/asuddenchangeofplans/fiction/shortstory/threethingschallenge/timetowrite/271words/14/09/2018
Written for multiple writing prompts: https://thehauntedwordsmith.wordpress.com/2018/09/13/three-things-challenge-13-sept-2018/ FOWC with Fandango — Prism https://girlieontheedge1.wordpress.com/2018/09/12/its-six-sentence-story-thursday-link-up-20/ CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL (genre:literaryfiction) By Neel Anil Panicker Ram Bahadur never took his 24/7 job as a hostel cook at St. Paul’s Residential School for Boys lightly; for him it was as important as the Office of the ‘most powerful man on … Continue reading neelwrites/chickensoupforthesoul/flash/fiction/TTC/SixSentenceStories/FOWC/283words/14/09/2018
IT’S PAY BACK TIME By Neel Anil Panicker Vishwan’s eyes bored through the contents of the fifty page file___each page headed with neatly indented paragraphs, some embellished further with sub headings, timelines et al but all with notations such as place, type of food ordered, credit card bills etc…etc… Finally, when he had had enough … Continue reading neelwrites/it’spaybacktime/sss/ttc/flashfiction/14/07/2018
THE WAIT By Neel Anil Panicker Ashish looked across the street towards the bus depot. Barring the neon lit signage that insouciantly proclaimed the words BUS DEPOT and the near fading sulphur vapour lamps emitting from inside the highway depot three miles out of town, the place screamed desolateness with a capital D. As the … Continue reading neelwrites/thewait
MOVING ON PHOTO PROMPT © J Hardy Carroll By Neel Anil Panicker It’s over. I’m done…done with you. I don’t need you. Not anymore. ‘You sure?’ you ask. “Dead sure”, I say. Dead sure ‘coz I’m done with taking insults__the poison dipped barbs, the not so veiled innuendos that come my way every single time I … Continue reading neelwrites/movingon/fridayfictioneers/flashfiction/100words/05/07/2018
AN AERIAL ATTACK By Neel Anil Panicker His feet firmly implanted to the edge, the brand new off grey canvas shoes pointing inwards towards the mouth of a an ill formed puddle full to the brim with last night’s inexplicable deluge, Wendell___his ill famous heavily lined visage heavily covered under the forbidding shade of a … Continue reading neelwrites/anaerialattack/ThreeLineTales/flash/fiction/shortstory/07/06/2018
NOT MUCH WATER By Neel Anil Panicker “ Your Honour, my client, 21 year old Asha and the victim, Sharad, were in a relationship. She’s also three months pregnant with his child. At the time of the incident, the two were in a boat in the middle of Marina river. An argument erupted over … Continue reading neelwrites/notmuchwater/flash/100wordwednesday/flashfiction/20/05/2018
DANCING IN THE DARK (ONE MINUTE READ) By Neel Anil Panicker The child in her was still born; never did she knew the everyday unalloyed pleasures of frolicking with her seven siblings and their gang of neighbourhood kiddies, not for her the squeals and the laughter; the serpentine anxieties and the meaningless worries; the ubiquitous … Continue reading neelwrites/dancinginthedark/ThreeLineTales/fiction/flash/17/05/2018
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