QB Short Stories
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The Girl Friend [Part 1]
It’s human to make mistakes. The wise learn from their mistakes and the foolish repeat it. But then there are…
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How About Challenging Truth?
The change of colors that we see in the sky throughout the day is a proof that nothing in this…
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Baba Raised Me Well
“One day, you will know the value of handwritten letters. One day, you will realize how beautiful it feels to…
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Late
“Beta, can you please get my medicines from the chemist”, yelled Sagar’s mother, her voice just slightly louder than the…
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Indebted To Honor
“I was partially unconscious the first time I saw her. It was her voice that woke me up, from a…
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Chairs
Sitting cross-legged across the table they were hesitant to make eye contact and even more shy to smile. Reading the…
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The Forbidden Wish List
I kept walking around in the house like a loon in the dark evening for she was asleep and the…
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Because To Everyone, It’s Just A Message. To Me, It’s The Truth!
“It wasn’t really too hard to believe when I fell in love with you. It wasn’t really too hard to…
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CUT
“Cut along the vein, not across. That way it will be quicker”. The words echoed in his head. He would…
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The Letter
“She wrote you a letter.” He came into my study, while I was sitting there alone, this evening and handed…
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Late Nights And Early Mornings
*The late nights and early mornings will pay you off one day.* From the moment we are all born, the…
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What Love Did, Love Never Could
“Every night, every single night, she will give in. Not because she is made to by force, but because she…
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The Hand That Spoke
“What? Do I look like an idiot?” I said in anger. “No Daju but it is true” He insisted I…
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The Wind Spells a ‘YES’
Sometimes, for a specific few, the sky snows amidst the fall of autumn. For some, there pours rain beneath the…
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The Treat for Good Marks
This morning, in the park, I saw a little girl playing with her mother. She is four years old. A…
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Irony And Surprise
“Laziness, the music that hit the eardrums and the stars too are all in unison tonight. This seems like a…
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When Stories Unfold Stories
*Sometimes, we read a story, we feel related to it and it so happens that we fall in love with…
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The Tangled Escape
Thrice, in one single day, have I felt that I am extremely difficult to be understood. We spend at least…
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Returns of the Lost Ones
“It isn’t the first time that I would be transforming him into words. That’s certainly what I’m best at. As…
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Almost – 1.0
“You are again late, why did you even bother to wake up?” Mr. Banarjee was frowning at Sameer Srivastava, everybody…
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The Birthday Without Her!
Deja-vu! A concept that all of us have been hearing about, reading about or talking about since the time we…
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Beauty of the Truths that Lies Define
*The one thing I feared was to have moments so beautiful that they might be cherished, however, vulnerable too.* We…
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Parting on the One-Way Street
I had no idea about how people parted ways with each other for real. It’s so difficult for me to…
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The Symphonies of Rock Music
It was a usual day, the usual morning, the usual way to college, the usual lectures, the usual conversations and…
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The Definitive Background!
“Sometimes, when the oceans turn white, dreams flow in with those waves leaving the blues of worries in the background.”…
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THE FREEDOM IN DETENTION CENTRE!
“Religion or humanity, terror strikes everybody down. It kills the ones who were from the very religion being fought for,…
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Erased!
“It is all in the mind” read the last line. Maya stared at those words and slowly closed the book.…
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Daughter of War
Shivya got up late this morning. Her coffee is nowhere to be seen, the regular hustle bustle of the house…
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THE KEY CLUE
“How hard do you think, will I try to persuade you not to kill me?” “Not very hard, I suppose.”…
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The INTERVIEW
The clock struck 12, it was noon now. But what mattered more than that was after a few minutes, she…
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Nights Lead to Mornings
It is strange how there can be an outburst of numerous emotions on a silent night. Night, the time of…
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Demons
Wang mo sat on the pouffee as she dozed. She swayed dangerously, about to be unseated from her warm…
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THE GHAGRA
The Himachal Roadways bus ran at a rollicking pace as its passengers fell to and fro, some of the…
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A Trip Down Memory Lane
It was 4 in the morning when my eyes opened up… I vividly remember the sound of ‘Ghanta’ and ‘Hulahuli’…
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The Departure
The clock showed 12 o’clock in my watch, it was noon now. But what mattered more than that was at…
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The Final Incompleteness
I saw her today. After about eight years, I saw her today. I was thrilled and happy, both at the…
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The Day the Sun Forgot to Rise
We often take God’s blessings for granted until they are taken from us. Then we recognize how important even the…
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The Hare and The Tortoise– Extended Version
Everyone must have read the famous Aesop’s fable “the hare and the tortoise”. In India it is published by Amar…
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For No Reasons At All..
Taking steps, one after the other, is what we call life. Its like that old saying “life is what happens,…
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A Photograph
The house was a mess after we had decided to move to London. The packing seemed more like unpacking from the…
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The Camouflage
The moment I saw them, I was hinted that they are genuine gems. But I had no idea that they…
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The Other Side
The clock ticked 10:15 am, Kaya looked at her wrist watch and then around the cabin. It was around 45…
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Have You Ever Wondered How Beautifully Love Casts a Spell on our Lives, Without us Realising it?
She had asked me. I understood her heart but did not have the answer. She waited for it but did…
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Little Flower
The cutest thing about kids is their unusual obsessions. Pema Jangchu was no different. Pema was a 6 Yr old…
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Beauty Wrapped in Canvas Shoes!
She kept wiping her tears off. One after the other. What I did not understand was if they were the…
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The Lost Chance
As usual, the chocolate was found in the desk. It had been a routine to find a chocolate kept in…
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Across the Fence
A whirlwind of emotions ventilated her striped outfit, as her weak eyesight drank in the picture of daisies smiling in…
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The Grey Eyes and Red Tears
She sat in a Starbucks cafe, sipping her coffee and staring out of the window. The bloodstained knife lay next…
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