Fiction

Shruthi D'Rose

Apr 74 min read

Operation Hamelin

Kay addressed the crowd assembled in his basement, “It is 2099. Only a thousand families survived a spate of disastrous events – global...

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Shruthi D'Rose

May 30, 20225 min read

The Threads of Fate

.” A statement that I have been taught since childhood…something I always abided by. I was born with sparse hair on my head. And being a...

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Shruthi D'Rose

Apr 23, 20223 min read

Donate Blood, Save Lives

All the seats were occupied in the waiting room at the blood donation camp. The protocols issued by the government were in place. Masks...

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Shruthi D'Rose

Apr 17, 20229 min read

Muse, Ruse, Bemused

‘Love thy neighbour'. I had taken this commandment quite seriously. It was barely two months since I rented a spare room in the Johnsons'...

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Shruthi D'Rose

Apr 8, 20223 min read

The Birth of the Special One

It will be 12 soon and I haven't heard from Kate. Usually, she calls me ten minutes before the clock strikes 12 so she will be the first...

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Shruthi D'Rose

Mar 30, 20229 min read

For Better, For Verse

“Apratyashit. It means uh…unexpected.” She patiently clarified. “I haven’t even read three lines of this poem. It’s beyond my...

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Shruthi D'Rose

Mar 15, 20223 min read

Touched By An Angel

I stood by the bridge staring down at my fate. Soon I’ll be a corpse floating in the river, by fish, beaten by the torrents, and...

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