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Aditi Writes

Aditi Mendiratta is a lawyer based in Delhi. Bouts of nihilism aside, she spends her days drafting contracts and nights hunched over a new age typewriter busting out yet another piece of short fiction, mostly because long forms of text require a sort of commitment that my generation seriously lacks. 

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Chapter 2

It is simple, really. Every successful civilisation since the beginning of time had one thing in common, a system. A structure that...

One Chip Down

Chapter 1 It is the one truth. If you have made your way to the party, you got to leave sometime. It doesn’t matter what you do, it...

Do you want to know?

She’s checking her phone again. Her tea remains untouched, it’s jasmine I suppose. I should have suggested going to a bar instead. This...

Sunday Breakfast

He lives on the floor below mine. He isn’t home right now, but he shall be, in around two hours. I just have to find something to do...

A Day Off

This is a tale as old as the test of time. No, not another fairy-tale romance, not one of those star-crossed lovers either. Well, there...

Elaichi

‘I did something bad.’ ‘Something really really bad’, she repeated, mostly to herself. I was greeted by her in a frenzy, at about three...

The Lake of the Undead

‘You have got to be kidding me.’ He stares at me, the horror of it apparent on his face. I signal for him to take the joint off my hands...

Loss and Sticks

‘You think there’s a place?’ ‘Place for what?’, he asks me. ‘A place for the people who die?’ ‘I don’t think it's like that’, he...

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