Your understanding of the occult is about to change. There are no vampires here, no werewolves. These are stories of life interrupted by forces unknown: energy flowing dark and silent from unspoken fears, repressed desires and small-town secrets. Set in hauntingly beautiful hill-stations, the sleepy lanes of Lucknow and breath-taking Rishikesh, these stories explore cities and the characters they coil around: whether it is a waiter disillusioned with the world around him, a school boy foll...

In our daily life we come across thousands of emotions outburst, but there would be some major bottled-up feelings which we sometimes felt oppressive to manage or understand. 'The Chaotic Thought' reflected somewhat similar emotions which we thought its curing must be important not by diagnosing from any psychiatric or any prescription by doctor. But through aligning into deep introspection where the outbreak of such emotions come from. It highlights the twisted beliefs and strands of diff...

Meet the four misfits living in one HDB flat.One is a Malay–Jew who is trying to get his father to come back as a ghost. Cantona is a promising Bangladeshi artist on the run from a construction company. Tights is a Chinese illegal immigrant with a Forrest Gump obsession. And Shanti is a gifted Indian lab technician hiding from her abusive husband.When a forlorn pontianak begins haunting them, the four friends find themselves embroiled in a surreal showdown that may just upe...

A provocative, challenging masterpiece by John Ashbery that set a new standard for the modern prose poem"The pathos and liveliness of ordinary human communication is poetry to me," John Ashbery has said of this controversial work, a collection of three long prose poems originally published in 1972, adding, " Three Poems tries to stay close to the way we talk and think without expecting what we say to be recorded or remembered."The effect of these pr...

Finalist for the Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction"The excellent strength [the novellas] share is a gracefulness and dreamlike sonority, reminiscent of writers like Jhumpa Lahiri and W.G. Sebald, wherein strange evolutions of solitary lives are the rule, and readers are held by the stately, hypnotic dignity of the voice that tells them." – San Francisco ChronicleSet in modern India, these three novellas move beyond the cities to places still haunted by the past, and to ...

Love. Never has a topic been the object of so much writing, so many tears, talks, feelings, and so much pain, and anger. Love clearly has a grip on us. Why are we absolutely compelled to be in a relationship? Why are relationships so difficult? Why do we tend to hurt our partner? Where does this pain come from? Why is passion always so consuming and how can we survive a failed relationship unscathed? How do we still trust love? Why are we so dependent on a partner and how could we love wit...

Poetry that flirts with the edge dealing with loss from divorce and betrayal. Pulling no punches, this medium uses anger as a short term coping mechanism to move through to the other side.

There are 1.2 billion people living in India; more than 1.2 billion stories in one country. A man living on a tea plantation in the Nilgiri Hills realises he's in love with his daughter-in-law; a young family eagerly awaits the launch of Shakti-Cola; a chronically anxious yoga retreat manager struggles with the demands of her enlightenment-seeking Western patrons; and a family legacy hangs in the balance when a horrifying discovery is unearthed on their Rajasthani estate. Traversing thirte...

Reply to Oblivion, Donald Patrick Redheffers new poetry collection, presents poems covering over two hundred subjects, including aging, wit, democracy, flattery, love, poetry, religion, and war. Every effort has been made to retain those forms that characterize unforgettable songs of the past. Although rhythm and rhyme are critical, meter has been manipulated for artistic impact. They aim for a place where sense and sound merge into the beautiful and true.The poetry addres...

Wander like the lone clouds,Be someone’s guiding light,There is so much to meet your eyes,Don’t content yourself for the end being near. Rehaan Rashed

Satire essays on Insanity in general and some spin-offs26 chapters and a list of macims

Scholastic and Artistic Poetry about the subject matter of Piano (Theoretical, Musicology), Violin (Art form), Nature, DNA (Genetics), Fragrance, The Universe, Love and Romance, Physics, Meteorology (Chemistry), Family, Education, History and Intellect.