My Short Stoies
5 stories
Pakeezah by mayprud
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Varsha Sharma had always believed life unfolded in a straight line-one step after another, one dream leading gently into the next. She had love waiting for her, wedding rituals filling her days, a brother and sister-in-law who were her world, and two little souls who filled the house with laughter. Everything was set. Everything was certain. Until the night everything changed. In a single, cruel moment, her perfect life shattered, leaving her with two infants who clung to her heartbeat and a world that no longer made sense. Her marriage collapsed, her home fell silent, and every path she once dreamed of closed at once. But grief has a strange way of rearranging destinies. Pulled together by loss and bound by responsibility, Varsha and Ashwin Raina-strangers in every sense but devotion-find their lives stitched into the same story. He, the quiet, work-driven brother who lost a sister too soon. She, the bruised yet unbreakable girl who became a mother overnight. Together, they step into a marriage neither planned, building a family from the ruins of heartbreak, discovering strength in places they never looked, and learning that sometimes love doesn't arrive as a choice... but as a promise you make to those who can't make one for themselves. Sometimes love doesn't arrive as a fairy tale- sometimes it grows quietly in the spaces grief leaves behind.
Kati Patang by mayprud
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A single train ride. A fleeting conversation. A connection that refuses to fade. In a city that never stops moving, two strangers cross paths for only a handful of minutes - an accidental encounter on a crowded train. They exchange nothing more than a few words, a borrowed smile, and a trace of unspoken understanding... yet something indescribable lingers. One builds structures meant to stand for decades. The other collects stories that survive even longer. Their worlds could not be more different. This is a story of missed chances and found courage, of strength hidden in delicate places, of how a single moment of displacement between two parallel lives can set them on a quiet path toward unexpected convergence. A gentle, heart-warming reminder that even the briefest encounters can become the geometry of destiny.
Suno Chanda by mayprud
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"Rivalry, Romance, and River Drama - The Perfect Storm!" In the villages of Sthirkot and Tarangpur, the river's been dry for decades... and so has the peace. Surya, the strict doctor from Sthirkot, and Chandini, the sarcastic teacher from Tarangpur, are about to be forced into the ultimate small-town drama. Why? Because their stubborn, rivalry-fueled fathers have come up with a plan to fake a romance between their kids to win a government grant. The mission: convince the skeptical inspector that the two villages can get along long enough to bring water back to the Kanchan Nadi. No pressure, right? Surya's all about logic, Chandini's all about snark, but when it comes to pretending they're madly in love...well, let's just say it's not exactly Romeo and Juliet. But who knows? Maybe the sarcasm will turn into something sweet, and Chandini might just become Surya's Chanda after all... even if it's for the sake of the river.
à La Carte Chaos by mayprud
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He built an empire on flawless food. She's the disaster that threatens to burn it down. Viren Vadera is Chicago's most arrogant, acclaimed celebrity chef, whose molecular gastronomy temple, Alchemy, is a symbol of absolute perfection. His image is his fortune. But a single, unfortunate incident involving an unexpected allergic reaction and a signature dish turns his world upside down. Overnight, Viren is the target of a vicious global media frenzy, convinced he's been publicly sabotaged. The woman at the center of the storm is Dia Gupta, a fiercely efficient, crisis-averse hotel manager who despises unnecessary drama. She just wants to return to her life in Mumbai, but her well-meaning friends have already launched a high-stakes lawsuit and a media campaign on her behalf. Convinced she is a cynical opportunist, Viren vows to expose Dia. But when the precise, dramatic chef collides with the hyper-organized manager, their public feud quickly turns into a private, volatile attraction. Can a recipe for pure chaos actually lead to a perfect romance? This is one dish neither of them saw coming.
Yusuf Chacha's Cyber Café by mayprud
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Set in the early 2000s, in the quiet valleys of Kashmir, stands the least quiet place ever created, Yusuf Chacha's cyber café - a blinking, beeping, eternally-buffering monument to early internet chaos. Between slow internet, squeaky chairs, and Chacha's unsolicited love advice - "Beta, pyaar tab hota hai jab server down ho aur phir bhi tum wait karo" - two strangers start exchanging emails that become the highlight of their days. They don't know each other's names, faces, or where exactly in Kashmir the other lives - only that talking to this mysterious someone feels like sunshine sneaking into the cracks of an ordinary life. As they trade secrets, sarcasm, and the occasional emotional breakdown over bad chai, an unexpected romance begins to bloom... right between Inbox and Sent Mail. And all the while, Yusuf Chacha waits behind the counter, convinced that one of his ancient computers is about to spark the greatest love story his café has ever produced. A soft, funny, old-school romance born in the era of slow internet, faster heartbeats, and love letters that arrived one "loading..." at a time.