Mr Rao, reputed govt servant, is dead. He has had a colourful career. and even a book written about him, which he hoped would become a Netflix series He even commisioned a few of his own statues.
But now in the afterlife, his sins will be judged, and streamed across a multiverse. Does Rao really deserve purgatory?
Category: Short Stories
Fire Blind
The Aagran tribe was about 300 in number and lived in the north-eastern mountains, around the region of Mizoram. They had a strange affliction, that caused some of their children to be born in the shape of human’s but not inhabiting the spirit. And such children could never be coached in the ways of the…
The Pregnant Djinn
Faris was an angry Ifrit . Anger was bad news in an Ifrit, who were Djinns, creatures of smokeless fire. An ancestor of Faris was said to have burped around the Mesozoic era, and accidentally wiped out the dinosaurs. The Almighty Yehwah was yet to fashion humans from the red dust of the earth, and…
The BTR Pandemic (Better than Retinol)
A new pandemic has invaded the masses because of the idiot act of a scientist. And instead of owning up to his mistake, he proceeds to patent it, and insists on turning his pandemic viral. Septemus is onto Chang…while also worrying that his wife could be into Chang.
LMS Hostel, 1995
The alarm rang with significant fanfare, garnering little enthusiasm and much irritation in the sole listener Jubin, helpless in the next room of the hostel. “Are you getting that?” Jubin shouted. He plummeted his head into his pillow and shut his eyes. In fifteen minutes it would give up its lament, he told himself. The…
The Lost Tooth
She opened her bleary eyes, when the cat, all seven pounds of squirming flesh, climbed onto her belly. Squinting into the sunlight streaming in from the open window, she discovered that she was now the weary possessor of a pounding headache, and at some point, had managed to lose both a tooth and a spouse….
Zombie Zack
Zombie Zack had eaten his girlfriend’s brain, again. Of course, if you look at it, it really wasn’t Zack’s fault. It was almost like Jenna was asking for it. You don’t date a Zombie if you’re the kind that scares easily. Or even worse, gets disgusted. Now that’s just cruel, and impolite. So what if you burp…
A Desi One Night Stand
After ten months of self-imposed chastity, I was to go on a date. And my date was late. My rucksack stood in the corner of the room. Its contents bulged from all sides, prostrate like a flaccid dick, awakened only to sit in the corner of my living room, watching sitcom reruns and PG-advised advertisements…
I, Homophobe
The first time was entirely Divya’s fault. And Goutam blamed her for it. He would never have been on that trip if not for Divya. And now, he was paying for it, running out of the bus like a school-kid, holding onto the railings in one hand, his stomach in the other, and on the…
How far will you go to impress someone?
Sam desperately needs to impress Jisha, the pretty girl on the trip. His only opportunity leaves him terrified.
Amel Rahman 