I know this is not a Sunday, but this post has been long overdue. Hence when I finally wrote it, I couldn’t wait till Sunday to share it. Prompt : List down all the cliches you can think of. Now choose one amongst them that strikes your fancy. Write a poem about that cliche- it canContinue reading “Prompt Sunday: Writer’s Block”
Author Archives: Arnab Mukherjee
CHAPTER SEVEN: YOU
Far away from the Cho’s village, there was a mountain. No, seriously, there was a mountain far away from that village. It’s a different thing that people in this world have accepted ‘faraway’ as a standard unit of measure which was anything but standard. It was equal to any distance that consisted of a variableContinue reading “CHAPTER SEVEN: YOU”
Show Review: Prison Break
A good ride that starts to sputter down the road.
Show Review: Breaking Bad
Everything bad must come to an end.
Just like a mystery novel
One of the biggest mysteries in the history of India and its fight for independence unfolds
Of Bugs and Existence
As I delve in and out of pages of Murakami’s 1Q84 on an unbelievably hot October Sunday afternoon, something outside my window catches my attention. Back in Kolkata, it used to be crows and sparrows flying about looking for food and shade. Here in the outskirts of Gandhinagar, it is swans. An occasional peacock hasContinue reading “Of Bugs and Existence”
Prompt Sunday #5: The Scarecrow
The Prompt: Choose a poem you like. Any poem. Take the last line and use it as the first line for a new poem. The poem that I have used here is “The Daffodils” by William Wordsworth. THE SCARECROW And dances with the Daffodils. The scarecrow as joy it kills, To incite fear in creatures winged,Continue reading “Prompt Sunday #5: The Scarecrow”
The Messenger of Death
The wind stops, the song dies, In the distance, an infant cries The rusted windmill, creaks and turns, While civilization, in my hand, burns Look yonder, o’er the hills you’ll see, My gun, my sword, my steed and me, The barrel smokes; blood drips down the blade, The steed foams and struts in the banyanContinue reading “The Messenger of Death”
CHAPTER SIX: YOU GOTTA GO WHEN YOU GOTTA GO
Still in a trance, Cho went back into the house to get his belongings, which like any other character from a fantasy story, could fit in two backpacks. Unfortunately he had only one back, and Dave carrying the bag to the pram was out of question, so he called their household help, Elma, a humanoidContinue reading “CHAPTER SIX: YOU GOTTA GO WHEN YOU GOTTA GO”
Prompt Sunday #4: Cinderella: An Alternate Ending
This weeks’s prompt: Write an alternate ending to the popular fairy tale, Cinderella, in which the glass slipper accidentally fits one of the two stepsisters. Make it a comedy, tragedy, satire, horror, or whatever you wish. Start your story from that very scene. Continue reading “Prompt Sunday #4: Cinderella: An Alternate Ending”
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