Darshana Suresh's articles Blank. source: pixers.it An eery silence is floating in the exam hall. There's the mild ruffle of answer sheets and the sound of scratching pens cutting the quiet in the room. My gel pen slips through my sweaty fingers, landing noisily on the floor. It takes forever for me to retrieve it from beneath the bench. […] July 22, 2018July 22, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Some Things Dreamy Source: Shutterstock A laptop, earphones, books, and pens. Strewn across the bed were these and a nineteen-year-old mess dozing over them. A typical day during college. My roommate is typing away frantically in her phone as if she were fixing third world problems. It's past midnight, so she decides to take a break and clean […] July 9, 2018July 9, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked The Dark Place The rhythmic beats of the autorickshaw cut through the noisy wind. He stood at the door watching the brown leaves litter the tiled courtyard. I sat at the settee watching his smooth silver hair fluttering in the breeze. He was exceptionally quiet this day. His wrist-watch wore a green strap, the same one he had […] July 4, 2018July 4, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Diffidence Source: Skolsida Dear diffidence, Why won't you let go? You put my efforts in vain, Pull me down to the floor. You drive me insane, Shutting every other door. You put to death my ideas, My beliefs and my dreams. You befriend my fears, My inhibitions, my shame. Much have I trudged from mere nothing […] June 1, 2018June 1, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked The Double Surprise August 7, 201711:55 pm Five minutes to midnight. No whispers or murmurs outside the door. My roommate is staring at her laptop screen, disregarding my presence. So they weren't gonna burst into my room with a cake? I scroll through whatsapp idly, trying to act cool although my mind is racing through all the possibilities […] May 25, 2018May 25, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked The Monster Source: webolutions.com Rage has failed me. Hope has left hold. No place to run away to, No person to be told. You leave us but one choice To carry fear in our minds. To fear the daylight and the dark, The empty streets and the crowds, Every gaze and every footstep, Every solitary walk. For […] April 24, 2018April 24, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Your Sunshine Source: wallpaper.com Poof!She'd stepped back into her room. There it was, the constant reminder of all the things undone. The world to her was a buzzing workhouse of intimidating prodigies, wherein she sat watching her confidence slowly ebb away. The seconds on the clock ticked away in mockery of the increasing amount of time she idled […] March 12, 2018March 12, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Kindred Spirits Source: Shutterstock “I felt that he was a kindred spirit as soon as ever I saw him.”“You're both queer enough, if that's what you mean by kindred spirits.” said Marilla with a sniff. The twelve year old put down Anne of Green Gables for an occasional brooding. Kindred spirits. Perfect! It was simply perfect. Ahh […] October 1, 2017October 1, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Blank. source: pixers.it An eery silence is floating in the exam hall. There's the mild ruffle of answer sheets and the sound of scratching pens cutting the quiet in the room. My gel pen slips through my sweaty fingers, landing noisily on the floor. It takes forever for me to retrieve it from beneath the bench. […] July 22, 2018July 22, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Some Things Dreamy Source: Shutterstock A laptop, earphones, books, and pens. Strewn across the bed were these and a nineteen-year-old mess dozing over them. A typical day during college. My roommate is typing away frantically in her phone as if she were fixing third world problems. It's past midnight, so she decides to take a break and clean […] July 9, 2018July 9, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Dark Place The rhythmic beats of the autorickshaw cut through the noisy wind. He stood at the door watching the brown leaves litter the tiled courtyard. I sat at the settee watching his smooth silver hair fluttering in the breeze. He was exceptionally quiet this day. His wrist-watch wore a green strap, the same one he had […] July 4, 2018July 4, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Diffidence Source: Skolsida Dear diffidence, Why won't you let go? You put my efforts in vain, Pull me down to the floor. You drive me insane, Shutting every other door. You put to death my ideas, My beliefs and my dreams. You befriend my fears, My inhibitions, my shame. Much have I trudged from mere nothing […] June 1, 2018June 1, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Double Surprise August 7, 201711:55 pm Five minutes to midnight. No whispers or murmurs outside the door. My roommate is staring at her laptop screen, disregarding my presence. So they weren't gonna burst into my room with a cake? I scroll through whatsapp idly, trying to act cool although my mind is racing through all the possibilities […] May 25, 2018May 25, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Monster Source: webolutions.com Rage has failed me. Hope has left hold. No place to run away to, No person to be told. You leave us but one choice To carry fear in our minds. To fear the daylight and the dark, The empty streets and the crowds, Every gaze and every footstep, Every solitary walk. For […] April 24, 2018April 24, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Your Sunshine Source: wallpaper.com Poof!She'd stepped back into her room. There it was, the constant reminder of all the things undone. The world to her was a buzzing workhouse of intimidating prodigies, wherein she sat watching her confidence slowly ebb away. The seconds on the clock ticked away in mockery of the increasing amount of time she idled […] March 12, 2018March 12, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Kindred Spirits Source: Shutterstock “I felt that he was a kindred spirit as soon as ever I saw him.”“You're both queer enough, if that's what you mean by kindred spirits.” said Marilla with a sniff. The twelve year old put down Anne of Green Gables for an occasional brooding. Kindred spirits. Perfect! It was simply perfect. Ahh […] October 1, 2017October 1, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked