Tag: emotion

• I’ll be gone in the morning

  He sits on the kitchen floor in the new apartment, holding a sharp knife. The refrigerator, sink, cabinets, and tube light indifferently look at him. They don’t care about what he’s about to do, but she does. She grabs the knife from his hands and backs away from his menacing stare. “This needs to stop!” […]

  Nitin Lalit

  July 3, 2022

  Short Stories

  creative writing, depression, dialogue, emotion, heartbreak, life, love, mental illness, nervous breakdown, relationships, short story

• The gravedigger’s son

  The shovel and spade, nick -snick-flick, the earth like rotting flesh, and movements and sequences, nick- snick-flick, instinct, impulse, reason, combining with each nick- snick-flick, making my father weary, and the eulogies for sons lost in accidents, daughters dying of cancer, got to him, and the fire and brimstone spewed, unnerved him, and so, he […]

  Nitin Lalit

  June 28, 2022

  Poems

  emotion, life, poetry, sorrow, suffering