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Holiday Aftermath
Tan lines on my back, What do they say?Yoo-hoo! I am having a rocking holiday. A hot water bath after a nice swimming session.Ouch! What is this burning sensation? Frantically I search for some soothing liniment,Only to find the sunscreen mocking at my predicament. It simpered, ‘Forgot me again, I am an important thing,You deserve…
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Change is Constant
“Oh, my best friend”You claim while sipping tea. After few shots of vodka,I am a Soul sister, your honey bee. There comes your boyfriend,Now I am a stranger to thee.
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Drive Safe
Today is the last Friday of the quarter and like every year, tonight we have a year-end party organized by our firm to celebrate the end of the financial year. Or say it’s the way to pacify employees who have strived hard the whole year but got peanuts in return. It is also the yearly…
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Before The Sunset : An Anthology
One book, 95 emerging writers. Love, creation, death, regret, discovery and terror, sirens, ghosts, monsters, and humans. This is who we are. These are the stories we tell. Bookmarked With Bliss presents, Before the Sunset, an anthology of creative non-fiction, speculative and literary fiction, and poetry. Read us. Be moved. Book details –Compiler : Bookmarked…
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Bloody Orchids
Perched atop the hill, there stood a colossal wreck, where she had been living a jailed life. The shattered house only had a torn mattress and some broken utensils. He would come each night with food and water and fulfil his desires unbothered of her consensus. Today was no different than other days. He came,…
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Swadhya BOX OF POEMS: A collection of poems
Swadhya BOX OF POEMS is a collection of 300+ poems compiled from 300+ poets across the nation. The book contains poems of various genres. Book details –Compiler : SWADHYA QUICK READSASIN : B08JMC48VGPublisher : Swadhya Publishing House (20 September 2020)Language: : English
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DARK INK: Embracing The Darkness Within
For once in our lives, we all fall into darkness and rise from it too. Leaving behind a lesson that we learned and an experience that we would never forget, some dark secrets, musings of melancholy, shackles of trust, and few quotes of heartache, lead our lives into the brightest and the most beautiful today.…
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Belligerence : A Book of Struggles
Professor Stephen Hawkings rightly said, “Look up at the stars but not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist”. The momentum of your destiny will only change when you believe in transitions. The more difficult things you undergo, you get reshaped into…
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The Scar
This makes you look ugly and bizarre.Aren’t you ashamed of the scar? No. It’s a reminder of my valor in the war.I am an ex-soldier and this is my real avatar.
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Let’s Talk Periods, With Our Sons
Originally posted on Pen It Rather Key It: 14-year-old Nidhi was playing hopscotch with her best friend. She was having a churning stomachache that day and was feeling lethargic. “What are you doing Nidhi? Play properly.” Yelled Ananya. “I am not feeling very well today.” Nidhi said holding her belly. Suddenly, Ananya screamed looking at…
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