Indian Short Stories

Fifteen stories, different emotions, one message: when teachers hang up their masks and cloaks, they are vulnerable humans within. Staff Room Stories is a unique collection of powerful, emotional, heart touching stories, fictionalized but inspired by real incidents.

As you read this, you are not alone. In fact, you are never alone. Your angels are always there with you watching and gently nudging and protecting you on life's journeys. And beyond the ephemeral angels we meet real life angels sometimes not easily discernible in this earthly light. Whats more interesting is that many of these real life angels may be unconscious to the impact they may be having on the life's of others. Here is one such story of a cop who hitchhikes from two drunks in a car, in the middle of a night. What follows is a humorous journey with twists and turns on the way, ...

A short story about the mystery of time travel, from Jurassic through medieval times and beyond is full of suspense and action. Join our reluctant hero and experience his tribulations and ultimate victory with his return to modern times, bringing with him an unusual bonus. Enjoy the characters he meets in their special niche within the fabric of this convoluted tale of time travel and intrigue.

Popat Lal and other stories is a collection of short stories written in an effortless, easy and flowing manner. Covering a range of emotions from humour in "Popat Lal" to horror in "A Tale of Woe" to hope in "Out of Luck" to contending with your fears in "Dusk to Dawn", these stories are so vivid that they seem like our own or next door happenings. Whilst simple in style, these are sublimal and lingering. Neatly packaged, these are a crisp collection of stories that will appeal to all age groups.

In India, marriage is more than a contract. It is the joining of earthly and divine goods. Marriage forges a new path for the next generation as well as riches, social standing, gratification, and refuge. It is also a wonderful melding of ideas, emotions, as well as hurdles and their corresponding resolutions. Put simply, Indian marriages are not just a two-person affair. It is the coming together of family and community with love at the forefront. However, as with all things in life, marriage is not black and white. When love and understanding ebb, heartbreak and sorrow flow. But does this...

A chance encounter with his ex rekindles memories, regrets, hopes, and desires. Will the all-consuming love that they once had for each other consume them yet again? Rudra is working as a Program Manager at a broadcasting company. He is living together with Bhavna, a girl whom he had known from his schooldays. In a chance encounter, Rudra runs into his ex, Tanvi. Rudra and Tanvi had been the ideal couple for very many years before they separated. Tanvi was the one girl Rudra had ever truly loved. The meeting brings back memories, regrets, hopes, and desires. When we genuinely love someone, ...

Ride along shotgun with prolific author Tom Sheehan as he blazes new western tales across the prairie. In this collection, his 7th with Pocol Press, Sheehan pens moralistic short stories brimming with frothy beverages imbibed at a local saloon, passionate revenge, romantic sequences, and plenty of gunplay.

In Where Skies Grow Wide, storyteller extraordinaire Thomas F. Sheehan brings out a new collection of western stories where cowpoke card games exude tension, rustlers roam causing havoc, and sweet revenge reveals itself through righteous gunplay. Saddle up, pardner…

Someone is out there observing her… observing her every move and every comment… gathering material for blackmail! Arya, a 23-year-old, works in an IT company in Pune. She stumbles upon a Confessions page on Facebook. In the beginning, it provides her with a nice distraction. As she starts reacting to confessions and commenting on them, she gathers a large fan base. The page also helps her meet her love interest, Nikhil. But as she enters more into the world of confessions, what she discovers, shocks and stuns her. She is soon sucked into a world far beyond her level of comprehension. ...

This collection of Kent Kamron’s frontier tales is the second in a series of adventures set in the Old West, circa 1860-1900. Cowboysamble up lonesome cattle trails where trouble is brewing, posseschase down bandits and bank robbers, and some mean killers lie inwait of judgement day.These stories take place over a vast part of America, stretching fromCanada to Texas and from Minnesota to Montana. Forts Buford,Caspar, and Fetterman are the sites for some of the cavalry stories,where soldiers portrayed an ominous presence. Scattered about, the Blackfeet, Arapaho, and Sioux Indians stand ...

The frontier tales of Kent Kamron take you back to the old west, circa 1860-1900, a time when ranchers, soldiers, and settlers made their place in history. The initial westward movement beyond the Mississippi crept into the rolling hills of Kansas and Nebraska, where the cattle towns gained notoriety. The next lands of opportunitybecame the open plains of the Dakotas, Montana, and Wyoming territories, a further invasion of the west, all which earned the termManifest Destiny.Along the way, cowboys pushed herds into unknown lands, railroadslaid the foundations for the cities to come, ranchers...

పురాణాల్లోని నీతికథలు పరస్పర గౌరవంతో కలసిమెలసి జీవించటం నేర్పుతాయి.

On her first trip alone, all she was looking out for was a bit of adventure. But she ends up with much more than what she bargained for. She falls head over heels in love with a thief! The trip to Hampi is just a way for twenty-four-year-old Isha to assert her independence before her overprotective parents marry her off. She hopes the trip would provide her with a bit of adventure and probably quench a bit of her enormous travel thirst. Unexpectedly, the trip provides her with much more. She meets the most perfect man for her. Akshay is gorgeous, mature, and has an amazing sense of humour. ...

From the author of "A Marriage Knot" Reviews from readers : "Mini Magic!!" "Simply superb takes you down a memory lane of childhood crushes to finding true love." "A soft romantic tale told well!" "The story was awesome. Short and sweet." ************************************************************************************************** What would you do if you got a chance to spend one magical day in Paris with your high school crush?Aditi has just about arrived in Paris when she runs into trouble. Quite unexpectedly, she is rescued by a stranger from her past. And it is not just any ...

In the bustling heart of Chennai, where the cacophony of daily life seldom ceases, there resided Professor Aruvi. Her life, much like the perennially overcast skies, was draped in a veil of solitude. Unmarried, she was in the autumn of her years. But as fate would have it, the arrival of her spirited nephew, Sakthi, brought with him the laughter and chaos that her life silently yearned for. Dr. Agathiyan, a bachelor in his early forties, led a life dedicated to medicine. His life was a series of methodical routines until his path crossed with Aruvi’s. It was an encounter that sparked an ...

Winner of the McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year and the Aboriginal Fiction Book of the Year—a collection of twenty short stories told in Thomas King's classic, wry, irreverent, and allegorical voice.

OUTLAWS AND LEGENDS OF THE WILD WEST - SPECIAL 15 STORY BOX SET Do you like true stories of the Wild West? You should love these tales of outlaws and gunslingers then Of course you will have heard of most of them as many have become infamous legends. Some are not so quite well known however, but they were all dangerous and ruthless criminals and all had their "15 minutes of fame", leaving trails of death and mayhem behind them. Most did not live to an old age, and those that did were probably in jail. Their escapades were daring and reckless and many paid the ultimate price in the end. ...

Ten short stories, different tastes, various shades are what make Ghost Runner & Others. Ghosts, lesbians, rapists, optimists, myths, achievers, mothers, lovers all are part of the short stories in Ghost Runner & Others. It travels through serene forests and mountains, obscure towns and burgeoning cities, even through imaginary landscape, imaginary time frames, yet it remains rooted in reality. It speaks of humans thriving through odds of politics, corruption and natural disasters. It connects history and mythology to the present and the future. In nutshell, Ghost Runner & Others narrates ...

Charles Eastman is unique among Indian writers, whether storytellers or oral historians. He was raised traditionally, as a Woodland Sioux, by his grandmother, from 1858 to 1874, until he was 15. He thus gained a thorough first-hand knowledge of the lifeways, language, culture, and oral history. His father (thought to have been hanged at Mankato, Minnesota) reappeared and insisted he receive the white man's education.

★A spine-chilling techno-thriller novella. For those who like their minds bent.★ Five went up the mountains. None returned. And it wasn’t the cold or the climb that killed them. At fifteen thousand feet, an army rescue operation finds buried underneath snow dunes five trekkers, dead in their campsite. One of the dead is Indian movie star Kirti Pandit. Another is her boyfriend, and the rest are her entourage. No one can say how they died. It could’ve been due to intense cold, perhaps the sudden snowstorm, or merely altitude sickness. Only, their symptoms were unusual. The snowfall ...