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Sunaina was bent over her smartphone, video chatting away with her boyfriend, Amar. Her phone was always kept easily accessible but not easily noticeable...

When Truth Hurts

Break Free Srivalli Rekha - March 22, 2019 0

The room spun around me. Was there a part of me that wasn't bruised, cut, or abused? Blood trickled into my eyes blurring the...

The Boy Who Died With A Smile

Claws Club Sreeparna Sen - April 19, 2019 0

I was hanging on the wall of the courtroom, precisely in the same position, since the first day of the year. The clerks had...

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Vintage

THE PEACH TREES IN THE FOREST OF WHISPERS

Indrani Chowdhury - September 21, 2020 0

The Forest of Whispers was now closely watching the group who had trespassed his territory. He had seen them since their birth, as they...

Vintage

Boondocks – A place within another

Chandrika Radhakrishnan - September 21, 2020 1

“I swing out and in to let you through’, read the small sign in the fairy tale font with its Uppercase glyphs and dingbats. Bemused,...

Guest

Stirring up the hornet’s nest- A reviewing primer

Shankar Hosagoudar - July 25, 2020 5

Hola Artoons, Here's another set of helpful tips that, I hope, will come in handy as you go about reviewing. To begin with, anonymous entries are...

The Final Lesson

Seema Taneja - November 18, 2019 0

She stood by the window and watched them. The playground reverberated with the exuberant chatter and laughter of her children. They had just finished...

EVAPORATED IN 24 HOURS

Beaks Club Manoj Paprikar - September 11, 2019 0

DIGNITY

Beaks Club Ratnakar Baggi - September 11, 2019 0

MUMBAI

Beaks Club Pallavi Sawant Uttekar - September 9, 2019 0

Cleopatra of Alexandria

Beaks Club Priya Bajpai - September 9, 2019 0

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Flat No. 808

Yatindra Tawde - August 25, 2017 0

Rahul and Deepa had recently shifted into the flat. After trying to find a place of their own for a long time, they had...

Drama

An Arachnid Anecdote

Pallavi Sawant Uttekar - August 5, 2019 0

"I love spiders....." I spoke aloud to convince myself and failed…. Shoo...shooo….. I cringed in horror…. Three hairy brown arachnids crawled over my blood soaked thigh....

ArttrA-3

Atop The Rolling Hills

Priya Bajpai - August 15, 2019 0

It had been a week since I met her. Ever since, I visited the cemetery every day, hoping to get her glimpse. That day,...

Drama

Dr. Gabriel North tales: The Styx Protocol

Pallavi Sawant Uttekar - July 10, 2019 0

Samuel Clooney was doomed. His new book had received abysmal reviews... "Sam Clooney's comeback is too insipid...too predictable compared to his famous Gabriel series...." It stung. Mostly, because...

Innswoods

Fiction

Phoenix

Vijaykrishna Amaraneni - January 10, 2020 0

I have stood here for countless days, spreading my thick canopy and watching the jungle life unfold around me. Though my first encounter out of...

Inferno

Drama Rohini Jayanti - January 7, 2020 0

The sun bloomed on the horizons that filled the sky with shades of orange and pink, that reflected on each leaf and wisp of...

The Burning Hills

Fiction Ranjit Narayanan - January 13, 2020 0

Subri’s story: My name is Subramaniam, in short, Subri. I work in the Theni wing of Cosmopolitan Trekking Club, founded by Von Reid, a world-famous...

Crime

The Midnight Proposal

Contemporary Srivalli Rekha - June 9, 2018 0

“Midnight, on the bridge. Come alone.” P.S: Don’t tell your twin. It was Ryan’s favourite place. Colourful balloons swayed in the breeze as their strings held...

The Magic Potion

Crime Seema Taneja - April 5, 2019 0

A pale moon glimmered outside her window. Yellow. Jaundiced. She sat hunched in a Baroque chair. Pensive. A grim smile dotted her thin lips. A storm...

Road Rage

Crime Sarita Khullar - July 16, 2018 0

Quietly they were driving back having paid last obeisance to Madhu’s mother who had left them a week ago. Madhu was still crying softly. Suddenly Amit felt...

Aromatic Makutu

Claws Club Srivalli Rekha - July 16, 2019 0

Mysty Bayou- The freshly painted words on an old board greeted as our car entered the town. Delays shadowed me in every possible place....

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Reviews & Ratings- 2 Scary R’s of ArtoonsInn

Srivalli Rekha - January 11, 20190

Writing Tips

We all love to read. Not many of us like to rate though. The reasons could be anything - from not feeling comfortable rating a...

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Romance

Five00-7

Mango Dreams

Itali Madhusmita - August 8, 2019 0

My name is Mango, Alphonso a.k.a hapuz Mango. I grew up here in the back yard, owned by an old couple, by the edge...

Kadamba Mala

Five00-2 Nagamani Kuchimanchi - July 27, 2018 0

Abhijeet Tiwari woke up to a surprisingly cool morning, after spending a sleepless night in the humid weather of Chennai. Born and brought up...

Eyes are sufficient

Failed to Deliver Varshini Ravindran - February 13, 2019 0

A rusty metal trunk box was flung open. Adjusting his eye glasses, Linga kept digging into his treasure box scattering some old and half...

My Diary

ArttrA-4 Kruti Bharadva - October 20, 2019 0

The mind can sometimes be a strange place. Like a house after a tornado has ravaged its heart, full of shards, splinters and broken...

Mystery

Isolated Series

An Epic Journey

Yatindra Tawde - July 24, 2018 0

My backside was feeling all the potholes on the road, the bumps on the road magnified by the bus suspension, which was almost absent....

The Feast

Claws Club Yatindra Tawde - February 10, 2019 0

The phone rang shrilly disturbing the Saturday afternoon siesta of Mr. and Mrs. Braganza. The Mrs. answered. “Hello...oh hi, Maria. How are you?...Oh, a feast....

EYES DON’T LIE

ArttrA-2 Seema Taneja - May 20, 2019 0

Avanika knew something was wrong the second she spied his name flash on the screen. It was tempting to ignore the call, but instincts...

The Fishing Lesson

Claws Club Srivalli Rekha - February 8, 2019 0

“Patience is the key.” The wise man taught. We nodded, adjusting the stained piece of rough cloth across the hips. This was a new...

Poetry

Poems

THE BALLAD OF A SEAMAN’s BLUES

Beetashok Chatterjee - October 22, 2018 0

At the stroke of twelve one night I carried my luggage down Big suitcase and a heavy backpack Both shades of golden brown Friendly cabbie smiled'n'helped Me hoist it...

Rain

Poems Charulata Panigrahi - July 17, 2018 0

I was expecting you since noon Yet apprehending will you? They say, birth death and rain Nobody can predict. But I hoped and hoped, The sky got darker The green...

The Lone Ship

Poems Srivalli Rekha - August 4, 2018 0

The moon rose high, a white pearl against the black sky studded with diamond stars. A ship sailed on the dark waters, swaying, dancing as the wind blew against the pale sails....