Micro-FictionCheating Doesn’t PayBy Anna Maria Sprzęczka-Stępień It was beautiful autumn, just the beginning: September. So golden and sunny. People have been coming back from their holidays. James too. He has spent a wonderful time in the countryside, but all good things must come to an end.The next day after the return, first thing in the […]
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A POEM BURIED IN SNOW poet – Ayub Khawar In a square cottage in the middleOf a snow-covered terrainI sit wrapped in a worn-out blanket of the nightAnd there,at one corner Is placed a tray made of burnt clay On it, flickers an appalling lamp.The shrill of the sand laden Windrush through the slits of
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Book ReviewBook: Of Cloudless Climes (Poetry)Author: Ravi RanganathanReviewer: Cijo Joseph Chennelil The poetry collection book titled “Of Cloudless Climes” is a work that does have multilayered elements within its framework. The book itself is divided into four categories such as poems of normal wavelength, myku(poems of minuscule pedigrees with the inclusion of profound thought processes),
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Poem: Najma Mansoor Translated from Urdu: Muhammad Azram O My Lord — The most MercifulLord of Action: “Be! And it is”I am your powerless creationDwelling on your EarthLooking forward to your command ‘Be’I won’t share everything with youKnowing that a prayer filled withsadness, pain, and sorrowMakes angels tremble tooSatan laughs and saysI didn’t say that
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[G.K. Chesterton,{Gilbert Keith Chesterton},(May29, 1874- June 14, 1936),was an English critic and author of verse, essays, novels, and short stories, known also for his exuberant personality and rotund figure.] The Secret Garden Aristide Valentin, Chief of the Paris Police, was late for his dinner, and some of his guests began to arrive before him. These
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A DARK BROWN DOG BY STEPHEN CRANE A Child was standing on a street corner. He leaned with one shoulder against a high board fence and swayed the other to and fro, the while kicking carelessly at the gravel.Sunshine beat upon the cobbles, and a lazy summer wind raised yellow dust which trailed in clouds
A STORY BY O.HENRY[O. Henry was the pen name of William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910), a well-acclaimed American short story writer. There is always an element of surprise at the end of his stories.] A Cosmopolite in a Caféwriter : O.HENRY At midnight the caféwas crowded. By some chance, the
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Short Story What You Want By O. Henry Night had fallen on that great and beautiful city known as Bagdad-on-the-Subway. And with the night came the enchanted glamour that belongs not to Arabia alone. In different masquerades, the streets, bazaars, and walled houses of the occidental city of romance were filled with the same kind
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[ R.L. STEVENSON (Robert Louis Stevenson1850-1894) was a Scottish essayist, poet, and author of fiction and travel books, best known for his novels Treasure Island, Kidnapped and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.] The two Matches One day there was a traveler in the woods in California, in the dry season, when the
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By O. Henry One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one’s cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied. Three times
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