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After years away, I returned to the town of Cinder Creek, a place I had sworn never to see again. Nestled in a valley between two ridges, it was a...
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The Morning Paper
It’s been three years since I last wrote here. The events of last week forced me to break my silence. I’m Maya, a data analyst, and my husband, Arjun, is...
The Sap of the Jackfruit Tree
I’ve always devoured those real incident columns in ghost story magazines, but never thought I’d have my own. I live in Bangalore now, but when the pandemic hit, I retreated...
The Lamp on Mango Road
In the autumn of 1998, the monsoon had carved its signature into the red earth of our village, leaving shallow lakes that mirrored the gray sky. I was fourteen, living...
The Pomegranate Ward
I’d always thought of my grandmother’s house as a place outside time, a sprawling single-story structure with thick walls that kept the summer heat at bay and the winter chill...
The Grimoire of Mirela
In the autumn of my fifteenth year, my family moved to a remote village nestled in the Carpathian Mountains. Our home, a two-story wooden house with a sagging roof, sat...
The Fourth Hour Vigil
It began, as these things often do, with a name. My name is Arjun, and for the past two years, my nights have belonged to something that refuses to let...
The Mirror in the Monsoon
The rain was a constant drum on the tin roof of our old colonial house in Kochi, a city that smells of wet earth and brine. I was seventeen, living...
The Chalked Circle
The hostel at Nilgiri Hills Engineering College was a squat grey block, its windows like tired eyes staring out over the tea plantations that rolled down to the valley. My...
The Weight of a Plaster Hand
In the quiet town of Ashford, nestled between pine forests and a man-made lake, I had finally found a semblance of peace. For years, I’d been haunted by a recurring...
The Hollow Under the Ferns
I was scraping by as a freelance translator, my nights a blur of glowing screens and caffeine. That particular evening, the deadline for a dense legal document loomed, and my...
The Muddy Footholds
Ravi knew the Aravalli road like the back of his hand. Every pothole, every leaning tree, every eerily silent patch where even the crickets seemed to hold their breath. It...
The Weight of the Road
The year was 1997, and I was twenty-two, a fresh graduate with a degree in commerce and no job offers. My friend Vikram, who had landed a decent position at...
The Lantern at the End of the Hall
I had spent months devouring every account of the unseen, every tale of the in-between, so I thought I was prepared. My name is Arjun, I’m fourteen, and I live...
The Wet Photograph
The rains came to Kodaikanal that year like a patient mourner, arriving in late July and refusing to leave. I worked the front desk at the Lakeview Hotel, a sprawling...
The Curator of Hollow Halos
The summer of 2011 found me in the labyrinthine lanes of old Varanasi, a thousand kilometers from the ordered chaos of Mumbai. I’d traded the antiseptic corridors of my college...
The Pattern in the Carpet
In the autumn of 2019, I took a position as a junior maintenance technician at the Asteria Grand, a sprawling hotel built in the 1970s on the outskirts of a...
The Loom of Absence
The first time I noticed the absence was during my third week at the Meridian Institute of Culinary Arts, a squat, sand-colored complex squatting on the edge of the Nevada...
The Garden of Stone Chrysanthemums
The invitation arrived on a Tuesday, embossed with a crest of interlocked ivy and a single, perfect chrysanthemum. It was from Marcus, a former colleague who had inherited his family’s...
The Chasing Bells
It was past midnight when Arjun left the temple grounds, the last strains of the damaru and the smell of burning camphor still clinging to his clothes. The villagers had...
The Last Call on NH-44
In the summer of 2004, my cousin Rohan lived in the sprawling city of Chennai. His parents, my aunt and uncle, had retired to their ancestral village, a small hamlet...
The Lantern in the Courtyard
In the summer of 2013, I was living with my family in an old colonial bungalow on the outskirts of a small town in Kerala. The house was grand but...
The Last Lantern
I had always been the one in the family who felt things others couldn’t. Not ghosts, not spirits, but the weight of unspoken fears, the texture of a room’s mood....
The Weight of the Waning Moon
The autumn of 1998 had settled over the small town of Ashford like a wet wool blanket, and I, Daniel Mercer, at the age of eighteen, felt the chill of...
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