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Stories and books have been a fundamental part of human culture since the dawn of civilization, acting as a powerful tool for communication, education, and entertainment. Whether told around a campfire, written in ancient texts, or shared through modern media, Short Stories in english books and stories have the unique ability to transcend time and space, connecting people across generations and cu...Read More


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The FOCO Dream How Kewal Ahuja SGF Turned Hopes into Heartbreak By Aarohi Samaira

Ravi had always wanted to start his own business. He dreamed of financial independence but also wanted a safe, guided approach. One evening, while scrolling through opportunities,...

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Midnight visitor By Kiko Xoxo

Third person pov She was alone in the house. Completely alone. Her parents had gone to a friend’s place and wouldn’t be back until tomorrow morning. The clock on the wall read 12:0...

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A White Crayon By Sushma

    It was a school with lots of colorful flowers with pleasant smell, long treeswhich gives breeze and very strict teachers, which made us grow into discipline students.    As usu...

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Krishna and Shiva – The Song of Friendship By Vijaya Lakshmi

Introduction Long ago, in the land of Vrindavan, two great gods shared a special friendship. One was Lord Krishna, who spread love with his flute. The other was Lord Shiva, who bro...

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The Haitian Whispers’ Potion of Unwritten Stories By Miguel Reyes

Would an author dare to take a voodoo potion to overcome writer's block? By Leu Seyer – Sept. 12th, 2025 - Dayan (1995), Nwokocha (2023), Fernández Olmos and Paravisini-Gebert (201...

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The Pen That only wrote the truth By Miguel Reyes

The pen that only wrote the truth by Leu Seyer 06.10.2025    A haunted fountain pen that only writes the truth drives a professor into madness, blurs the line between fiction and r...

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All - Part 8 By Lotus

Babu and I didn't realize when we reached our home's main door, that she was talking about her convarsation with her teacher.I unlocked the door and we both stepped inside...

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The Dreaded Dad By S Sinha

                                                               The Dreaded Dad  “  Ashok , you know our son Umesh is also moving to Hyderabad  from Indore ? “  said Mala to her hus...

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Living Life with AI By Nensi Vithalani

How Gen Z is Turning Technology into a Lifestyle Gen Z is the first generation that has truly grown up with artificial intelligence. For us, AI isn’t a distant dream from some sci-...

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The Moon Dreams Gift the story of the forest and house of THAYYAMMA By MUHAMMED ARSHAQ

The Moonbeam's GiftIn a remote hillside, by the banks of a river named Chamatha, lived an old man named Appukkuttan. His entire world consisted of the river, the forest beyond...

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THE MOON DEAM'S GIFT IN THE HEART OF THE FOREST AND THEYY AMMA HOUSE By MUHAMMED ARSHAQ

The Moonbeam's Gift​In a remote hillside, by the banks of a river named Chamatha, lived an old man named Appukkuttan. His entire world consisted of the river, the forest beyond...

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Two Shades of Life: Balancing Success and Failure By Nensi Vithalani

Life has always been a blend of contrasts. Just as day cannot exist without night, and joy cannot be felt without sorrow, success cannot truly be understood without failure. Both a...

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7Day of Spring - Part 3 By Gunjan Gayatri

4th Day — The Silence We SharedSpring wore a softer color today.The sky was pale, almost shy — like it too was learning how to feel again.I wore silence. Again.The world outside th...

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Girl I Know, The Woman she became By vineela

  When I was in school, I saw a girl, wearing uniform with two neatly plated braids. she used to come to school by Auto from a village called Chandoor. She was one of the most disc...

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A Bag Full of Dreams By ABHISHEK

A Bag Full of DreamsAbhishek and Adarsh, two brothers, came from a quiet little village tucked far from the city’s chaos. Their mother, Manju, was a simple woman with a strong hear...

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Lion Cub In Chains By Antarbodh The Truth

**THE LION CUB IN CHAINS** *A grandmother's story, told by a boy who didn't know it was real.*---In a quiet village hut, where the walls were made of mud and timber and the...

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APPUS DREAMS THE POEM OF A SEA, AND THE STORY OF A LITTLE CROW By MUHAMMED ARSHAQ

Appu's DreamAppu, a young boy, lived in an old house in Thiruvananthapuram. In the courtyard of his house, there was a large mango tree. This tree was his best friend. He had n...

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Not Just A Day - A Lifetime Called Friendship By Nensi Vithalani

True Friendship: The Bond That Walks With You, Even in Silence “A friend is not just someone who walks beside you—but someone who lives inside your heart, even in silence.” A frien...

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Followed By Lotus

Suzette, or Su as everyone called her had just gotten off of work. She had thought it might be nice to walk down to the old record store.The store was called Lionel's Vinyls, s...

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Whose Sacrifice was Bigger By S Sinha

                            Whose Sacrifice was Bigger    I  was born nearly ten years after my elder sister Siya  . A couple of years after my birth my mummy was not keeping good...

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The Last Letter By Anup Anand

In a quiet village nestled between green hills and winding paths, lived an old postman named Hari. For over forty years, he walked the same dusty roads, delivering more than just l...

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Memory : The Road I Walked By Antarbodh The Truth

### **Memory: The Road I Walked**Some days ago, out of nowhere, I got a flashback of my life.In the area where I live, there’s no transportation for 2 kilometers. When I was small,...

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The Struggle of Huvamma By Vaman Acharya

 The Struggle of Huvamma  (A true story of a florist)      By Vaman AcharyaThe morning in Bendakaluru was bright and the sunlight was warm. The sparrow was chirping on a tree. I he...

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Trauma Took Everything - But Not Him By Antarbodh The Truth

##The DarknessThree months ago, insomnia seized me. The fan's whir transformed into a child's wailing, darkness became watchful eyes, my clothes constricted like a cage, an...

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The Ring of The Jinn By Lotus

The voice sounded as if it were in the room. She woke with a start and looked about in the dark frantically, reached for the lamp and missed and knocked her clock over. She cursed,...

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Trauma Took Everything - But Not Him By Antarbodh The Truth

#The DarknessThree months ago, insomnia seized me. The fan's whir transformed into a child's wailing, darkness became watchful eyes, my clothes constricted like a cage, and the mir...

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Paise Ki Pathshala By Jaiwal Panchal

Paise Ki Pathshala: Your Easy Guide to Smart Money MovesHey there!  Let’s talk money — but don’t worry, this won’t be boring or complicated. Managing your finances doesn’t have to...

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Mood and Mind: The Secret World Inside Us  By Nensi Vithalani

 ️ 1. What Is Mood?  Mood is like the weather inside your mind. Sometimes it’s sunny and bright, other times cloudy and heavy. Imagine waking up one morning feeling sad, but you do...

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TimeTravel: Highs, Lows, and the Truth Between By Archit arora

Prologue: The Seeds of Escape It started like whispers- a puff here, a bottle there, a moment of curiosity blooming into routine. TimeTravel never planned to fall. But you don't fa...

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Delayed Justice Not Enough By S Sinha

                                Delayed Justice Not  Enough “ Even at the age of thirty when I recall the  horrifying  incident I faced in my childhood , I get terribly shaken from...

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Autumn Love By Murthy Bulusu

She willed herself to not to check her phone to see if he had replied. It had been about three days now. She hated that she was constantly checking his ‘last seen at’ status and ye...

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Part And Parcel Of Life - 3 By Shreeya Desai

We all have struggles in our life, some of us have big struggles and some of us small but struggles are struggles just because u have an issue that doesn't sound big to others...

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Mystery’s at the Cemetery By Shreeya Desai

We all are confused at some point in our lives....whether it is future studies, relationships or something else. Like all of us little lily has always been confused, she's 5 yr...

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The Unspoken Farewell By Suraj Kumar

Ravi boarded the 6:15 PM local, as he had every evening for the past eleven years. The train's metallic groan and the sharp whistle no longer stirred anything in him. Life was a cy...

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The Tracks of Desire By Suraj Kumar

It was past midnight at a silent, fog-laced railway station in Kerala. The rain had just stopped, leaving the air thick with the scent of wet earth and melancholy. The empty statio...

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One can die from Being Immortal! By Vijaya Rahul Sivapu

  The university common room buzzed with the familiar symphony of digital life—notification pings, muffled TikTok audio, and the occasional burst of laughter at a particularly absu...

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Pathfinder Seetha By Mamta Tejas Naik

SeethaSeetha-The Pathfinder “Amma, one more lullaby or a story”, Seetha requested, her mother. “Ya Amma, please one more.” Seetha’s siblings also requested mother to sing. Although...

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The Clockmaker`s Silence By Piyush

The Clockmaker’s SilenceA Story by Piyush Chapter One: The Forgotten AlleyThe alley was never meant to be seen. Wedged like a forgotten breath between two long-abandoned buildings—...

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You Can Start Over at Any Age, Any Stage By Nensi Vithalani

Introduction: Why This Title Matters In life, people will talk behind your back the moment you decide to break the pattern. “Did you see her?” “At this age, he’s starting something...

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Alien Son By S Sinha

                                     Alien Son   Riya was an Indian Australian living alone in  Sydney , New South Wales Australia . Riya was born in Australia . Her parents had co...

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Bench In The Park By Vaman Acharya

Bench in the Park (A flashback love story)By Vaman Acharya  Priyanka and Aravind celebrating their tenth wedding anniversary on a bench in the park. “Aravind, Why did you choose a...

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Made a Saint, Lost a Son By Rohan Beniwal

When Aarav was five years old, his mother said to him for the first time, "Son, just sit like this, close your eyes, and keep smiling." Aarav didn’t understand what was happening,...

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The Girl Who Collected Sunsets By Naina Yadav

No one knew exactly when Mira started collecting sunsets. Not the kind you took pictures of. Not even the ones you tried to hold in your mind before the night swallowed them whole....

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The FOCO Dream How Kewal Ahuja SGF Turned Hopes into Heartbreak By Aarohi Samaira

Ravi had always wanted to start his own business. He dreamed of financial independence but also wanted a safe, guided approach. One evening, while scrolling through opportunities,...

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Midnight visitor By Kiko Xoxo

Third person pov She was alone in the house. Completely alone. Her parents had gone to a friend’s place and wouldn’t be back until tomorrow morning. The clock on the wall read 12:0...

Read Free

A White Crayon By Sushma

    It was a school with lots of colorful flowers with pleasant smell, long treeswhich gives breeze and very strict teachers, which made us grow into discipline students.    As usu...

Read Free

Krishna and Shiva – The Song of Friendship By Vijaya Lakshmi

Introduction Long ago, in the land of Vrindavan, two great gods shared a special friendship. One was Lord Krishna, who spread love with his flute. The other was Lord Shiva, who bro...

Read Free

The Haitian Whispers’ Potion of Unwritten Stories By Miguel Reyes

Would an author dare to take a voodoo potion to overcome writer's block? By Leu Seyer – Sept. 12th, 2025 - Dayan (1995), Nwokocha (2023), Fernández Olmos and Paravisini-Gebert (201...

Read Free

The Pen That only wrote the truth By Miguel Reyes

The pen that only wrote the truth by Leu Seyer 06.10.2025    A haunted fountain pen that only writes the truth drives a professor into madness, blurs the line between fiction and r...

Read Free

All - Part 8 By Lotus

Babu and I didn't realize when we reached our home's main door, that she was talking about her convarsation with her teacher.I unlocked the door and we both stepped inside...

Read Free

The Dreaded Dad By S Sinha

                                                               The Dreaded Dad  “  Ashok , you know our son Umesh is also moving to Hyderabad  from Indore ? “  said Mala to her hus...

Read Free

Living Life with AI By Nensi Vithalani

How Gen Z is Turning Technology into a Lifestyle Gen Z is the first generation that has truly grown up with artificial intelligence. For us, AI isn’t a distant dream from some sci-...

Read Free

The Moon Dreams Gift the story of the forest and house of THAYYAMMA By MUHAMMED ARSHAQ

The Moonbeam's GiftIn a remote hillside, by the banks of a river named Chamatha, lived an old man named Appukkuttan. His entire world consisted of the river, the forest beyond...

Read Free

THE MOON DEAM'S GIFT IN THE HEART OF THE FOREST AND THEYY AMMA HOUSE By MUHAMMED ARSHAQ

The Moonbeam's Gift​In a remote hillside, by the banks of a river named Chamatha, lived an old man named Appukkuttan. His entire world consisted of the river, the forest beyond...

Read Free

Two Shades of Life: Balancing Success and Failure By Nensi Vithalani

Life has always been a blend of contrasts. Just as day cannot exist without night, and joy cannot be felt without sorrow, success cannot truly be understood without failure. Both a...

Read Free

7Day of Spring - Part 3 By Gunjan Gayatri

4th Day — The Silence We SharedSpring wore a softer color today.The sky was pale, almost shy — like it too was learning how to feel again.I wore silence. Again.The world outside th...

Read Free

Girl I Know, The Woman she became By vineela

  When I was in school, I saw a girl, wearing uniform with two neatly plated braids. she used to come to school by Auto from a village called Chandoor. She was one of the most disc...

Read Free

A Bag Full of Dreams By ABHISHEK

A Bag Full of DreamsAbhishek and Adarsh, two brothers, came from a quiet little village tucked far from the city’s chaos. Their mother, Manju, was a simple woman with a strong hear...

Read Free

Lion Cub In Chains By Antarbodh The Truth

**THE LION CUB IN CHAINS** *A grandmother's story, told by a boy who didn't know it was real.*---In a quiet village hut, where the walls were made of mud and timber and the...

Read Free

APPUS DREAMS THE POEM OF A SEA, AND THE STORY OF A LITTLE CROW By MUHAMMED ARSHAQ

Appu's DreamAppu, a young boy, lived in an old house in Thiruvananthapuram. In the courtyard of his house, there was a large mango tree. This tree was his best friend. He had n...

Read Free

Not Just A Day - A Lifetime Called Friendship By Nensi Vithalani

True Friendship: The Bond That Walks With You, Even in Silence “A friend is not just someone who walks beside you—but someone who lives inside your heart, even in silence.” A frien...

Read Free

Followed By Lotus

Suzette, or Su as everyone called her had just gotten off of work. She had thought it might be nice to walk down to the old record store.The store was called Lionel's Vinyls, s...

Read Free

Whose Sacrifice was Bigger By S Sinha

                            Whose Sacrifice was Bigger    I  was born nearly ten years after my elder sister Siya  . A couple of years after my birth my mummy was not keeping good...

Read Free

The Last Letter By Anup Anand

In a quiet village nestled between green hills and winding paths, lived an old postman named Hari. For over forty years, he walked the same dusty roads, delivering more than just l...

Read Free

Memory : The Road I Walked By Antarbodh The Truth

### **Memory: The Road I Walked**Some days ago, out of nowhere, I got a flashback of my life.In the area where I live, there’s no transportation for 2 kilometers. When I was small,...

Read Free

The Struggle of Huvamma By Vaman Acharya

 The Struggle of Huvamma  (A true story of a florist)      By Vaman AcharyaThe morning in Bendakaluru was bright and the sunlight was warm. The sparrow was chirping on a tree. I he...

Read Free

Trauma Took Everything - But Not Him By Antarbodh The Truth

##The DarknessThree months ago, insomnia seized me. The fan's whir transformed into a child's wailing, darkness became watchful eyes, my clothes constricted like a cage, an...

Read Free

The Ring of The Jinn By Lotus

The voice sounded as if it were in the room. She woke with a start and looked about in the dark frantically, reached for the lamp and missed and knocked her clock over. She cursed,...

Read Free

Trauma Took Everything - But Not Him By Antarbodh The Truth

#The DarknessThree months ago, insomnia seized me. The fan's whir transformed into a child's wailing, darkness became watchful eyes, my clothes constricted like a cage, and the mir...

Read Free

Paise Ki Pathshala By Jaiwal Panchal

Paise Ki Pathshala: Your Easy Guide to Smart Money MovesHey there!  Let’s talk money — but don’t worry, this won’t be boring or complicated. Managing your finances doesn’t have to...

Read Free

Mood and Mind: The Secret World Inside Us  By Nensi Vithalani

 ️ 1. What Is Mood?  Mood is like the weather inside your mind. Sometimes it’s sunny and bright, other times cloudy and heavy. Imagine waking up one morning feeling sad, but you do...

Read Free

TimeTravel: Highs, Lows, and the Truth Between By Archit arora

Prologue: The Seeds of Escape It started like whispers- a puff here, a bottle there, a moment of curiosity blooming into routine. TimeTravel never planned to fall. But you don't fa...

Read Free

Delayed Justice Not Enough By S Sinha

                                Delayed Justice Not  Enough “ Even at the age of thirty when I recall the  horrifying  incident I faced in my childhood , I get terribly shaken from...

Read Free

Autumn Love By Murthy Bulusu

She willed herself to not to check her phone to see if he had replied. It had been about three days now. She hated that she was constantly checking his ‘last seen at’ status and ye...

Read Free

Part And Parcel Of Life - 3 By Shreeya Desai

We all have struggles in our life, some of us have big struggles and some of us small but struggles are struggles just because u have an issue that doesn't sound big to others...

Read Free

Mystery’s at the Cemetery By Shreeya Desai

We all are confused at some point in our lives....whether it is future studies, relationships or something else. Like all of us little lily has always been confused, she's 5 yr...

Read Free

The Unspoken Farewell By Suraj Kumar

Ravi boarded the 6:15 PM local, as he had every evening for the past eleven years. The train's metallic groan and the sharp whistle no longer stirred anything in him. Life was a cy...

Read Free

The Tracks of Desire By Suraj Kumar

It was past midnight at a silent, fog-laced railway station in Kerala. The rain had just stopped, leaving the air thick with the scent of wet earth and melancholy. The empty statio...

Read Free

One can die from Being Immortal! By Vijaya Rahul Sivapu

  The university common room buzzed with the familiar symphony of digital life—notification pings, muffled TikTok audio, and the occasional burst of laughter at a particularly absu...

Read Free

Pathfinder Seetha By Mamta Tejas Naik

SeethaSeetha-The Pathfinder “Amma, one more lullaby or a story”, Seetha requested, her mother. “Ya Amma, please one more.” Seetha’s siblings also requested mother to sing. Although...

Read Free

The Clockmaker`s Silence By Piyush

The Clockmaker’s SilenceA Story by Piyush Chapter One: The Forgotten AlleyThe alley was never meant to be seen. Wedged like a forgotten breath between two long-abandoned buildings—...

Read Free

You Can Start Over at Any Age, Any Stage By Nensi Vithalani

Introduction: Why This Title Matters In life, people will talk behind your back the moment you decide to break the pattern. “Did you see her?” “At this age, he’s starting something...

Read Free

Alien Son By S Sinha

                                     Alien Son   Riya was an Indian Australian living alone in  Sydney , New South Wales Australia . Riya was born in Australia . Her parents had co...

Read Free

Bench In The Park By Vaman Acharya

Bench in the Park (A flashback love story)By Vaman Acharya  Priyanka and Aravind celebrating their tenth wedding anniversary on a bench in the park. “Aravind, Why did you choose a...

Read Free

Made a Saint, Lost a Son By Rohan Beniwal

When Aarav was five years old, his mother said to him for the first time, "Son, just sit like this, close your eyes, and keep smiling." Aarav didn’t understand what was happening,...

Read Free

The Girl Who Collected Sunsets By Naina Yadav

No one knew exactly when Mira started collecting sunsets. Not the kind you took pictures of. Not even the ones you tried to hold in your mind before the night swallowed them whole....

Read Free