What are the 5 characteristics of a short story?They are true masters at combining the five key elements that go into every great short story:character, setting, conflict, plot and theme.The basic steps of a plot are: conflict begins, things go right, things go WRONG, final victory (or defeat), and wrap-up. The right-wrong steps can repeat.A novel can have several conflicts, but a short story should have only one.While we selected these stor...

"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."Rabindranath TagoreWhat you hold is a collection of some of the finest tales of monsoon from over 25 writers. Each written with the motive of stirring up the latent artist within you.This is an initiative of a group called "The monthly anthologies". The group aims at coming up with something new every month. Something creative for new and aspiring w...

In the emerald valleys of Arunachal Pradesh, where rivers remember and trees whisper forgotten truths, a divine story rises -soft, sacred, and untold.Through gentle storytelling and mythic grace, The Untold Story of Rukmini honors the divine feminine, the power of longing, and the sacred geography of northeast India.

All living creatures need one another even though the connection is not clear. It is said, 'When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.'The Homeless Birds shows how human beings and human habitat sometimes threaten other species and their space.Ranjan meets a most unusual bird in his garden. Bigger than him and able to talk, the bird is lost and doesn't know in which direction its home lies. Ranjan take...

Meditation is a very simple phenomenon and is brought about in this book. This book describes the science and methods of the human mechanism to achieve meditativeness. The book highlights as to how important it is for a person to achieve their utmost natural state of being.

The Tao Te Ching is one of the world's spiritual and philosophical classics. The 81 chapters have distilled the wisdom of the sages, oracles and folk traditions of ancient China and are beautiful to read. They offer reflection and insight, and guide us towards personal growth and greater understanding. Tim Freke's new, modern rendering encapsulates the freshness and simplicity of the original Chinese text and makes it relevant to our lives today. It is a book to dip into, to meditate upon ...

This small eBook deals with 'grieve' in connection with the death of a son. Osho uses a Zen story and unfolds a unique and different way of dealing with grieve, death and dying. He acknowledges that it is very difficult not to grieve when somebody you loved has died. Not to grieve is possible only if you have an understanding and an experience of the essential, something of the deathless.

The qualities of a seeker of truth, the transmission of truth through spoken words, attachment to the physical presence of a master and a taste of silence are the subjects of this talk by Osho. "Every child is born with an innate search for truth. It is not something learned or adopted later on in life. Truth simply means, "I am, but I do not know who I am." And the question is natural -- "I must know the reality of my being." It is not a curiosity."

What happens when I die? is the question every human being asks, usually in private, sometimes in the middle of the night, and almost always without receiving a satisfying answer. In this compact and startlingly direct book, David Tuffley PhD turns to one of the oldest and most sophisticated accounts of dying ever compiled, the Bardo Thodol, better known in the West as the Tibetan Book of the Dead, and distils its wisdom into a guide a modern reader can actually use.Rather than tre...

In this book, you get the south-facing home plans as per vastu Shastra. A south-facing home is the one in which the main entrance door open in the south direction. Many people believe that a south-facing house is bad. But the truth is not all the south-facing house is bad. If we make south-facing houses as per vastu Shastra principles, we will get more wealth, a relaxing and prosperous life, also our financial strength will increase. In this book, you get 110 south facing home plans in dif...

We all know that there are thousands of Quotes, Quotations, Teachings & Sayings of Great Masters, Thinkers & Spiritual Guides which are freely available to us. Even then, the Teachings & Quotes by Lord Buddha has got a special importance due to various reasons. Buddha`s Teachings go to the core of our life & can make radical changes in the mind of the seeker of truth. His Teachings are highly penetrating to the bottom our mind. Instead of going into the what & why, Buddha takes us to t...

The last year of school was supposed to be a stressful mess, but Sathya never expected it would get this stressful or this messy. He's pissed off with his parents, his best friend is convinced something is wrong with him, and there's a new guy with a pretty face and dazzling eyes, and Sathya just can't seem to ignore him.Or rather, Sathya doesn't want to ignore him.* * * * *Part of Take a Chance Anthology.