Contemporary

 Fiction: The CentipedesAuthor: Piyush SrivastavaSome stories never leave you, so is the case with The Centipedes, once you read it. It is an alarming narration of the transformation of a family from innocent hand workers to cunning head spinners. It is beyond the imagination of a common man how far a bad man can go. How a father, whose daughter was gang-raped and killed, becomes so greedy that he insults the real life memories of our heroes, underestimates the sacrifice of Neerja style="margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;">It is a fiction with so much real things around that I remained restless for a few days after reading it. The varied experience of the author is there in the fictio...

Teen, Young Adult, or Adult FictionSynopsis: a man is beaten to death by three prison guards on the 15th anniversary of the day he met the one love of his life. He had written a letter to his lover with a poem, and an investigative reporter finds the woman and sends her the letter…we go back to the beginning and relive their story in the woman’s is a short story inspired by a real event that occurred on August 26, 2015, National Cherry Popsicle Day, in the Santa Clara County Correctional Facility, CA USAIt was written one chapter per week in August 2020, following 3 consecutive short story prompts from Reedsy’s weekly short story contest, without knowing what the prompts were going to...