Tiny Story: The Modern Woman

She looked at her husband seemingly flirt with her friend and sighed. She wished she could expose her traditional, small town values without losing the trendy society woman image she had carefully built over the years. Maybe "traditional yet modern" made sense outside of matrimonial ads too.

Tiny Story: The Fancy Meal

She was taking notes furiously, while trying to absorb everything that the cook was saying on TV. Her husband sighed with the knowledge that he was going to go to bed hungry that night. He cheered up a little when he realized that the next day he could brag to his co-workers about the gourmet Thai dish (with an unpronounceable name) that his wife had made for him the night before.

Tiny Story: The Mother-In-Law

Pankajam peered through her thick bifocal lens and waited anxiously for her son in law and his friends to finish dinner, her stomach growling louder by the minute. At least with a daughter in law, she could have had a vocal fight.

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I know, that I had promised another feature on Thursdays and I missed the deadline last Thursday. To break the suspense (if any), the Thursday's feature is Extra Long Story - a story that would be broken into atleast 3 parts. But here's the deal, I have started writing a story and I have some idea about how I want it to end, but it's not written in black and white yet. So do I start the feature and let the story take its course as the weeks progress or do I wait for to finish before publishing it? Ideas will be appreciated, criticism will be tolerated and references to mega serials will be obliterated! :-)

Monday Feature - Tiny Stories

I have decided to have a feature that will run every Monday. I am calling it a Tiny Story, because it's much much shorter than a short story. I am not calling it a 55 word story, because I don't want to be restricted by any word count. It could be as small as a tweet or sometimes a paragraph. I am not hoping to make a big impact with these - I just hope you will like them enough to check them out every Monday. As as I was telling a fellow blogger, the audience is a huge part of a (my) blog and I have driven mine away by extended periods of silence. Am hoping this might bring a few of them back. :-) Keep reading!

** Watch this space on Thursday for a new feature **

The New Bride

The ends of her nails have an orange tinge on them, the vestiges of wedding mehendi. She wiped the sweat off her forehead without a glance at her unmanicured nails and continued cooking for the large family she had married into.