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CAGED FREEDOM By Neel Anil Panicker There was no leader. In fact all got to play leader. Up, several thousand feet above the earth, they would trade places, move in and out, shuffle back and forth, allowing each one the pride and joy of leading the pack sans any ego sans the megalomania that is … Continue reading neelwrites/cagedfreedom/flashfictionfortheaspiringwriter/fiction/shortstory/10/07/2018
A FALLEN LIFE PHOTO PROMPT © Yarnspinnerr By Neel Anil Panicker These walls__the plaster all peeled off; the smell__dank, an all pervasive nauseatingly pungent odour so clinging that it threatens to lather me all over. The roof above is a hallapolooza of cuts and bruises, the fan hanging down from it a twisted mass … Continue reading neelwrites/afallenlife/fridayfictioneers/100words/12/04/2018
EMPTY BLACK BOARD; EMPTIER LIVES This week’s photo prompt is provided by Yinglan. Thank you Yinglan! By Neel Anil Panicker It was the only ‘school’ In the entire 200 sqaure mile desert stretch that is the Rann of Kutch. In fact to call it a school would be an anchronism. For, it wasn’t like it … Continue reading neelwrites/emptyblackboards, emptierdreams/FFfAW/fiction/shortstory/10/04/2018
BLAST OF A TIME By Neel Anil Panicker “It smelled? Well, it smelled of burnt plasticky, with overtones of sweet gunpowdery, charring fleshery, and concrete dustery.” Inspector Sharma looked bemusedly at his colleague and shook his head. When will these trainee newbies forego their English bred tongue and speak the language of the plebs, … Continue reading neelwrites/blastofatime/FFfAW/shortstory/fiction/175words/06/02/2018
A MATTER OF TIME By Neel Anil Panicker “Let me start by telling you a story, if you please. But before that let me begin with a Biblical aphorism: You reap what you sow.” He heard some rumblings from the back and looked towards the last bench. Pin drop silence followed. Years of teaching MBA … Continue reading neelwrites/amatteroftime/reena’sexplorationchallengewek#22/fiction/coachingtime/2130words/01/02/2018
STUNTED GROWTH PHOTO PROMPT © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields By Neel Anil Panicker ‘Son, see that tree over there?’ “That’s barely a tree, Dad.” ‘Son, that’s the work of man. Evil men. Precisely, a few evil men.’ “Dad, what do they want?” ‘Son, they want to claim the tree for themselves, roots and all. Each warring group … Continue reading neelwrites/stuntedgrowth/fiction/fridayfictioneers/100words/01/02/2018
Lust comes clothed in soft kisses Unlocks closed chambers Her body lathers in love. (c)neelanilpanciker2018 #poem #tanka HAIKU PROMPT CHALLENGE RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #186 Body&Close RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #186 Body&Close
NO MAN’S LAND By Neel Anil Panicker It is a couple of hours after midnight, that still born hour when the entire world and its backyard have taken a sabbatical; that pregnant pause, that briefest of brief interludes before the deluge begins all over again, before the rambunctious merry go round wheels of life start … Continue reading neelwrites/noman’sland/thursdayphotoprompt/#writephoto/31/01/2018
Murder and mayhem Lumpen elements unleash regressive mindsets spreading falsehoods and lores. History anew__remodelled. (c)neelanilpanicker2018 #tanka #poem #myth #write WELCOME TO TANKA TUESDAY! Colleen’s Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 68, “Myth & Write,” #SynonymsOnly
BRIGHT AS LIGHT By Neel Anil Panicker Father, I feel lost, of no use. My life has turned pitch dark and shorn of all light. “That’s not the case, my son. There’s light at the end of the tunnel?” Father, but I see no tunnel, no light? Where is it? “Son, you are mistaken. Look … Continue reading neelwrites/brightaslight/FFfAW/shortstory/175words/30/01/2018
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