DOORMAT
- June 15, 2021
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- admin_chubbylittlegirl
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An expensive and beautiful floor runner was bought for the house.It was so soft, and durable, that everyone wished to step on it. Slowly it got dirty and discoloured due to rough usage and started to resemble a mere door mat.
When it was put for wash, voila! it looked like the runner had...
AFRESH
- April 11, 2021
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- admin_chubbylittlegirl
“Let’s start afresh”. He said and smiled.
“Yes, but before that, let me go to the place where it all started”. She said.
“But why?”. He asked.
“Because I want to erase every bit of memory we ever made and then start afresh”. She said.
“You know that is not possible”. He said getting agitated.
“Exactly my point”. She said...
CHATBOX
- March 14, 2021
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- admin_chubbylittlegirl
I hold a lot of emotions, love, anger, joys and sorrows.I have seen relationships strengthening and souring as well.Businesses developing and failing too.
I am a mere chat-box , that holds all the emotions and chats . Sometimes I get archived with all the beautiful memories intact and other times, I am ruthlessly deleted, erasing every...
HER PLACE
- September 10, 2020
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- admin_chubbylittlegirl
She would cover her head with a stole in the presence of elders as a mark of respect. Was it to keep her in place?
She would stop speaking if an elder male cleared his throat indicating her to stop. Did she hear him say, “she should know her place?”.
She stopped studying, she stopped working, she...
PATTERNS ON THE SAND
- September 09, 2020
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- admin_chubbylittlegirl
She looked at the children playing at a distance. She drew a heart on the wet sand and added A+R on it. A sudden large wave erased it
She drew a heart again but changed the initials to P+R with trembling hands. The wave erased the design again.
She became bolder, drew a bigger heart and gave...
WELCOME
- August 22, 2020
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- admin_chubbylittlegirl
She came back to her parents’ home with bag and baggage after ten years of her marriage.
Everyone asked her, “Why?”
No one said, “You are welcome”.
...
MY AMMA’S SAREE
- August 02, 2020
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- admin_chubbylittlegirl
Amma had fancied a checked Kanjeevaram saree with double coloured border since long. She saved money from household expenses and purchased the saree after considerable effort. She happily wore it on her birthday and showed it to papa forgetting his abusive ways.
Irked by her independent thinking, papa punished her hard and amma succumbed to the...
THE SPACE IN BETWEEN
- July 30, 2020
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- admin_chubbylittlegirl
From rustling up mouth watering dishes in the kitchen to entertaining the guests in the living room, from drying clothes and gardening in the small balcony to taking care of elders in the bedroom, from teaching the kids in the study room to sharing tea with her spouse on the easy chairs , she kept...
COMPATIBILITY
- July 21, 2020
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- admin_chubbylittlegirl
He wasn’t what she had expected him to be and she couldn’t become what he wanted her to be.
The world said that they both lacked compatibility.
Only they both knew that they lacked love for each other.
...
LIFE ….. AFTERLIFE
- July 01, 2020
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- admin_chubbylittlegirl
The lifeless body was lying on the floor. Blood flowing from the slit wrist. The loved ones were shocked and wailing.
The soul was shocked too to see the body. How could the body betray its own soul? Though the body had freed itself from the miseries of the world , yet it had caged its...
