A new section showcasing young voices in fiction, poetry and non fiction; featuring writing from students in schools and universities aged 19 or below.
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Poetry | ‘It’ by Rachel Deyis (18) | Student Writing
I feel it shift inside me, this wild, furred thing that has uncurled itself from the slumberous warmth of my belly and climbed the rungs of my ribcage to settle within my chest. For weeks it has been still, all flickering eyelids and gentle prodding, but today its eyes blink wide open, awake- silvered claws…
Poetry | ‘You Will Never Know’, ‘I Was Not Born This Way’ by Priyanjali Negi (15) | School Student Writing
You Will Never Know It has been almost a year since you left us alone,And here I lie on my bed recollecting our last conversation over the phone.Far away from each other,But the emotions in our hearts were the same. My own little brother, And I never knew how well he played this hiding game.During that silence,…
Poetry | ‘Dauntless Dreams’ by Subhanjali Saraswati (18) | Student Writing
Paranoia glared through the windows,She started melting under the heatInch by inch,She lost pounds, sterlings, dollars.The counties were long gone,It was now time for the countries.Perhaps,Gone were the days the ice melted.It was frozen still today,The roads, the ravages, the restless pace.Crossed by a bullet would have been easierSimpler even.Wrath ran through the veins,Just as…
Poetry | ‘Fate of the Forgotten’ by Chandana. D (15) | School Student Writing
There goes the isolated fishermanIn his desolate wooden boat,Trying his best to be restrained fromAll the misery that poverty connotes. The sun has set,The incessant time goes.Lost in the sea of the forgotten,The abandoned fisherman rows. Maybe if it was not him,That hope had parted so badly within,He would have probably been laughing,With his beloved…
Poetry | ‘Hope’, ‘The Cuckoo’s Calling’ by Deekshita Rajesh Athreya | School Student Writing
Hope A shadow of darkness fills my gaze,As the nightly air patrols aroundThe once lovely countryside all in a haze,So deathly a silence, my heartbeats resound. The moon appears to heal my wounded soul,Emerging as a ray of hope through a gaping hole,Sending a subtle hint straight into my heart,If darkness comes, light is not…
Poetry | ‘Glass Grows’ & Other Poems by U. Sai Sruti | School Student Writing
Glass Grows we live in a glass worldglass dolls and glass mindsgrowing out of glass junglesglass bodies cracking and greenthis glass shatters in this glowing streamof green blood and green heartsbleeding blackening greasegreen governments eyeing the glass greenand piercing glass into these bodiesthat spew their spleen of earth-shattering greenglass breaking, burning, brewingglass minds that grow…
Poetry | ‘Clueless Nights’ by Ashaani Taneja (15) | School Student Writing
I sat on the muddy brown boulders,to watch the sun go down,to see the beautiful night,I felt the calmness as my hair swayed with wind,and my wings, which were collapsed earlier,rose and flapped in the wind,cutting the current with its black feathers,which came out of my wings,blew towards the setting sun.Through the cracks in the…
Short Fiction | ‘A Long Journey Home’ by Teevranshu Vashishtha | Student Writing
Raman and Prakash were sitting on the side of NH30 brooding over the setting sun. They had left Lucknow with a meagre ₹1000 each. The last full meal they had had was three days ago when they were leaving the city. They had been surviving on biscuits and water since. Raman was a native of…
Short Fiction | ‘The Change I Want to See in the World’ by Anshika Kodukula | School Student Writing
“Congratulations! It’s a boy, Mr Rohit!” The doctor conveyed the good news to my Dad. That tall man looked quite like Iron Man with curly hair, a long nose and arched brows that seemed to make a rainbow. His delicate peach lips formed into a wide grin as I stopped crying upon seeing him. He…
Short Fiction | ‘I Love You, My Tim’ by Shreya Anil (14)| School Student Writing
I did not have pets. I did not want any either. I had never felt any true emotional attachment with animals, especially the ones you keep as pets and tend and nurse so prudently. I had always thought that it was simply a dumb showcase of internal love because they couldn’t possibly say that they…
Short Fiction | ‘An Unexpected Rendezvous’ by Simran Aneja (14) | School Student Writing
It was a moonless, rainy night and I was curled up on my couch under a warm blanket, sipping a cup of steaming hot chocolate filled to the brim with fluffy marshmallows on top. I was reading The Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie which perfectly fit the mood of the evening. The…
Short Fiction | ‘The Canvas’ by Ramyani Bhattacharya (19) | Student Writing
I. The train was scheduled for 8 in the evening so I had enough time to spend with the city which had been my home for the last six months. My bags were already packed and gathered in the middle of the room. Having informed Shankar that I was going out, I made my way…
Short Fiction | ‘There is Sand in My Eye’ by Bhavyakirti Singh (18) | Student Writing
I live in a small city. Not geographically, of course. My universe is not all that the light touches but just about what my eyes meet. You could say that it would not be much of a task for me to easily disappear in a somewhat upper-middle-class crowd. Having a comfortable life isn’t something that…
