Poetry —

My Entry for Be Open Writing Contest #1 — Poetry (New Year vibes) — Time is Rapunzel’s hair descended from a tower without stairs. You can only go one up, punishing your forearms. But don’t stop, It hurts more when you stay. We ask, what’s a home without an ‘away’? …

They just need to be done right — People in writing groups are terrified of cliché beginnings. And this is why writers often procrastinate starting a story or their next big novel. Because they’re waiting to start with something out of the world. The bitter pill, however, is that the element of awesome needs to be in your…

Contentment may be your definition of personal success. But that is not okay with the world. We want our people to be shiny, young, with pretty hair and perfect skin. We want them to run out of the subway clutching their laptops like life depends on a click. They must…

Hope is a looming cloud pregnant and dark gray; With broken eyes, it watches All those dreams it led astray.

Indian Novel Review Part III I’m an Indian writer and all of my stories are set in the Indian milieu. I figured reading more from the sub-continent will help. Last year, I decided to read Indian authors. It’s been a bit ebb and flow. There were books where I’ve had…

For now, the uproar’s at bay.

A Writer’s Book Review — There are books you read for fun and there are books you read to learn; There are books to relax yourself and there are books to wind you up. Sometimes, though, you live a book. And living entails everything — boredom, bloodshed, bleak— but it’s not a full life until…

We’re riding the white horse buggy, elated, unaware.