WINNER OF BOUND’S DYSTOPIAN FICTION SHORT STORY COMPETITION PROLOGUE New Horizon Magazine, Date [redacted] Scavenged Article Data as follows: Header: Citywide Area Under Science Experiment Content Body: [redacted] OVERSEER The current population of Automata was the reason Chinmay’s job was not demanding. He sat in his comfortable chair – revolving it lightly… Continue reading Automata: A Short Story
WINNER OF BOUND’S VALENTINE’S DAY SHORT STORY CONTEST 2020 The pancake should shape itself into a nice, round disc like your mother’s chappatis but you are not your mother Have you ever been in love? I’m not talking about the kind that makes you feel good. I’m talking about the kind that makes you feel worthless… Continue reading Cooking For One: A Personal Essay
ONE OF THE TOP THREE ENTRIES OF BOUND’S SHORT STORY CONTEST 2019 For the next few years, as they flitted in and out of hospitals and multiple surgeries, Kadambari would stop speaking completely. No matter how much Lalitha tried to explain to her, and no matter how nice she was to Kadambari, her words remained… Continue reading The Revelation: A Short Story
ONE OF THE TOP THREE ENTRIES OF BOUND’S SHORT STORY CONTEST 2019 For the next few years, as they flitted in and out of hospitals and multiple surgeries, Kadambari would stop speaking completely. No matter how much Lalitha tried to explain to her, and no matter how nice she was to Kadambari, her words remained… Continue reading The Colour Of Grief Is Red
WINNER OF BOUND’S SHORT STORY CONTEST 2019 You weren’t even supposed to be here. You weren’t ever going to get married, settle abroad, have a child, make paneer for your husband, have it curdled and turn too sour, leaving the two of you to spend Monday in bed, your stomachs clutched in agony. The dead… Continue reading Curdled: A Short Story
RUNNER-UP OF BOUND’S DYSTOPIAN FICTION SHORT STORY COMPETITION The halogen streetlights blurred into each other as the lone black car snaked down the streets. Inside, the gentle thrum of the engines sounded like a lullaby to Avni but she violently rubbed her eyes and forced herself back to focus. KK had passed out almost an… Continue reading Class H: A Short Story
RUNNER-UP OF BOUND’S DYSTOPIAN FICTION SHORT STORY COMPETITION A Revolution, long before it grows ubiquitous is found in the lairs of an odd soul. It often sprouts from incredible aching of love or impassioned abhorrence to life as known. It burgeons to sustain the odd soul. It then offers her a crude sense of sanity.… Continue reading Long Before Revolution: A Short Story
“My mother is not used to live-in relationships,” Sunil says. I try to be high-minded about it. I could not really blame Sunil; he has not met his mother for six years, ever since he came to New York. And he is shy. His mother must be one of those overly sweet, interfering women, I… Continue reading When The Blinding Light Reveals
Fan Fiction Is For Everyone Twitter Instagram Linkedin-in The fandom began with Star Trek fans creating and exploring Kirk and Spock’s potential romantic relationship, and fanfiction has only further expanded into a vast, rich collection of ideas born from fan inspiration and desires. Fanfiction has evolved, and how, over the past few years, since it started to… Continue reading Fanfiction Is For Everyone: Take Your Pick
Scientist Turned Author: Meet Indira Chandrashekhar Twitter Instagram Linkedin-in Much of my work steps out of the world, to reach into strange and fantastical dimensions,” says Indira Chandrasekhar. Delve into this interview with a Biophysics PhD turned writer-blogger-editor Scientist, fiction writer, and the founder editor of Out of Print, an online short story magazine, Indira Chandrasekhar has dabbled… Continue reading Scientist Turned Author: Meet Indira Chandrashekhar
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