They meet again after a week, but they sense that something is different. A sense of calm prevails even as the two people, seemingly interested in each other, don’t find the need to probe their feelings . Prashila Naik writes a sequel to her story ‘The Blue Kajal’ written for Spark’s Feb 2014 issue.
Deblina bumps into her first love at the airport. They get talking, and Deblina feels as drawn to him now as the first time she met him. But what has changed since the days of heady, first love? Rrashima Swaarup Verma tells the story.
A female and a male colleague, good friends, find themselves in the throes of passion. But the woman is wary – she’s been deeply hurt before. Ashritha N writes about the two.
This Valentine’s Day, a reporter finds herself in the wonderland called Lovistan, to witness the parade of the Love Jihadis. What is Lovistan and who are these Love Jihadis? What do they do? Krupa Ge tells us a tale that’s sure suited for the times we live in.
Pallavi gets a new set of teeth, and with that, a renewed vigour to bite… anything. A thriller is in store for you from Priya Anand, under the theme ‘Mystery & Crime’.
Oscar the rabbit has been jailed for digging “against the course of nature” and is sentenced to trial. Harman Mavi tells Oscar’s story with strong parallels to the Indian judicial debate around Section 377 under the theme ‘History & Culture’.
Natasha Gayari tells about the workings of the mind of a young woman as she sits through a project meeting with her team that includes a man whom she is surprisingly drawn to. The Designer is a story on the theme ‘Love & Friendship’, highlighting a strange kind of attraction.
An Indian, an Afghani and a Bosnian find themselves sitting together in a Sydney gym the afternoon of the hostage attack in the city in December 2014. The conversation that ensues compels each woman to dig into her own past. Preeti Madhusudhan describes the conversation, under the theme ‘History & Culture’.
An erstwhile top-notch detective has now begun teaching at a university, after he fails to solve a serial murder case. When looking for a Professor of Criminology for his department, he receives an interesting application. Debleena Roy tells the story under the theme ‘Mystery & Crime’.