In short stories, when I come to endings, I feel I can end in more than one way. I get the idea of a short story from real life, but most of the times, it is just a phrase that I overheard somewhere or a scene in a restaurant that I witnessed. I elaborate that …
Author: Prachi Jain
Prachi Jain is a short story and real-estate writer. She is a self-proclaimed skincare/home remedies guru and an impeccable procrastinator with some unusual habits like blessing each airplane that she sees from her bedroom window. She is very thankful for her abilities to rethink every consensus and reevaluate every opposition.
Her work has been published in the Huffington Post, Ascent Aspirations, Vending Machine Press, Six Sentences, and Brown Girl Magazine.
Writing Prompt – By the dark of dawn
Mom left home just before dawn, dad left later after dropping me to school. I went to after care and then home just before dinner. I do not know when mom came home from work dad was the parent I saw. Then one day I was told dad needed a surgery to help his ailing …
Contentment- A rare feeling?
There are a lot of us who are aggravated, annoyed, angry most of the times. There is always a heaviness in our heart and a complain on our lips.So few of us feel the calmness of the mind. How would total bliss feel? I decided to write about that sought after Utopian feeling. This is …
To blush or to bruise
Blushing and Bruising - Two experiences constantly affecting human psychology. You blush and bruise so many times a day, you don't pay too much attention to it. Unless of course, you are blushing because you have fallen in love recently or you are bruised because you have been dumped recently. When you are fifteen and …
Writing Prompt – After Sundown
I walked up to the edge and inhaled the warm air that rose from the valley. Fireflies ate up the darkness below. The restlessness of stray dogs was apparent in their howls. Behind me in the yellow mud house, Mrs. Ruth lit a candle. The teenage couple copulating under the sequoia finished hastily. Life in …
Are writers a selfish and lonely breed?
I feel writers love to be by themselves so their creative juices can flow without any hindrances.They sit endlessly on their computers or with their notepads pouring out their imaginations. God save anyone who comes and disturbs their chain of thoughts during that time, they can really get super creative in showing their irritation and …
Writing prompt – Starlight, Earth-shine
A concert under the starlight Under the night sky, we walked, you and I. The dim light of the stars created a halo around us making us appear like ghosts with a form. Our feet sank in the cool desert sand as brown as the color of earthly human emotions. Under the night sky when …
Higher purpose
"Fire is whispering a secret in smoke's ear,"This aloe wood loves me because I help it live out its purpose." Rumi Some people have a higher purpose in life than merely earning and paying bills, raising kids and sending them to college. It is said that some special people get their calling. Like millionaires who …
Writing prompt – Wood,Fire, Ash
I wonder if wasn't so interested in writing, what would have been my passion? Horse Riding? dancing? Acting? Reading? Sitting by a window or walking on a sandy beach? Watching a movie or waiting for a rocket launch? Whatever I would have felt strongly about, it would definitely be connected to APPRECIATION. Some time ago …
Writing prompts
When you get immune to the proverbial 'knocking of the Muse' and she turns away, do writing prompts come and shake you by the shoulders, sit you on a chair(bed in my case) and make you write? Of late, when I can't seem to open up the imagination chambers of my brain, I am relying …
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