Hello Friends This month for the first WEP prompt of 2022, I decided to refurbish an old tale that I had written last year. I hope you enjoy it. If you wish to join WEP for lovely pieces of flash fiction every alternate month, visit here. Thanks to @DeniseCCovey @YolandaRenee, @LGKeltner @jemifraser, for the February …
Fuchsia
(This story is based on true events) Rekha spun round in her swirl skirt, an orange cotton blend with a zari border and tassels hanging by her slender waist, which was barely able to hold the heavy garment. My gaze was fixed on her face, gaunt and grey. The last two months had played havoc …
Small Talk
[ Dear reader, do you have an opinion about the things that happen around you? Do you openly speak your mind? Or, is it that just like me, you'd like to say a lot but watching the sun go down or talking about the weather takes precedence?] I’ve spent the better part of the day …
Reclaiming Myself
In the year 2018, I started this blog titled ‘A Hundred Quills’ after winning a few online short story writing contests and after one of my stories was reduced to ashes by a reader/critic. It was such an emotional moment that the title of the story became the title of my blog. No sooner did …
We Got Your Back! (IWSG Feb,2022)
Hello to my IWSG fellows I read an interesting term, called ritual being sometime back, and it’s stayed with me. Last month I couldn’t post for the IWSG and couldn’t even visit other writers because ‘C’ that stormed the world two years back struck home and I dealt with my share of the pandemic. But …
Airavata Microblog Hop
Author Name: Sonia Dogra Book Name: Airavata About the Author: Sonia is an essential poet at heart, who also dabbles in the world of short stories. She is a freelance editor with AuthorsUpFront. Having been an educator for ten years and owing to an association with a children's bilingual monthly 'Keekli' for the past five …
A Hundred Quills 