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Dipayan Chakrabarti

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2020

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The olive branch

Weekly Contest #93

The olive branch 1 (1, 130 words) They rolled on the bed, got on top of one another, hugged and kissed. Soon afterwards, the short bursts of Nafisa’s muffled excitement melted into the dim light of the penthouse apartment of the best Port Blair club, and the night became silent. A sweet, soft, and sensuous music wafted out from a jukebox. In the cubbyhole, decorated with flowers, and fragrant with the perfume of body oils, Nafisa opened her bedroom eyes. She looked happy, confident and radiant. She got down from the cou...

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Escape to Life

Weekly Contest #92

Escape to Life (1,185 words) 1 The sun crept over the massive snow-capped massifs into the enormous mountain-ringed horizon, turning the sky into a warm shade of tangerine. Evening descended and so did darkness. Silence followed the swift fall of murkiness. It’d been three days since the group of mountaineers had started climbing from the Everest Base Camp. The peaks looked like eerie silhouettes in the light of the quarter-moon. Hazel kept climbing in the light of the headlamp fixed on her helmet. “Take care on the...

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The Study

Weekly Contest #91

The Study 1 (1, 419 words) Tucked away in the shadows of old Darjeeling town stands a library which remains surrounded by the world’s highest peaks. The serpentine corridors, intricate passageways, spiralling arches and curved galleries it consisted have an old world charm. It is a purgatorial crypt where books, like trapped souls, wait patiently to be rediscovered and resurrected in the reader’s mind. Books have always interested me. The smell of old books attracts my attention. So does ...

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The Final Triumph

Weekly Contest #90

The Final Triumph 1 (3, 000 words) Streaks of green stretched across the Norwegian sky. They rippled and danced, faded and reappeared again. “Wow!” Hazel yelled, wide-eyed. Ryan said, “It’s magnificent.” Forgetting the Arctic chill Ryan and Hazel gazed upwards till their neck ached. They stood on the deck of the chartered research vessel Aurora Borealis. The enveloping softness and the watery wilderness filled them with a sense of serenity. Ryan served as an Asrrophysicist and Hazel served as an Astrobiologist ...

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Off their rocker

Weekly Contest #56

1 Off their rocker (2,935 words) “What’s up?” I asked the sick guy. "Ouch!" “Are you in pain?” I added. “I’m feeling a bit down in the dumps," the boy groaned. The doctors imposed a strict isolation for COVID patients to prevent the spread of coronavirus in the hospital. I developed difficulty in breathing five days ago and required hospital care. The chap beside my bed started to cough. The sound of his laboured breathing broke the silence of the night. The clock struck the hour by making a sound twice. “Are you awake?” he asked. “...

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The Choice

Weekly Contest #51

The Choice (2,441 words) “Get some rest, pals,” Dana said, ‘it’s very draining.” “Thanks,” I smiled, absentmindedly. “Much of this region is wilderness,” Diana smiled appreciatively. Dana folded up her red wings and descended upon a mound while Diana landed by wrapping up her greenish wings. The fairies gave me a gift of extraordinary powers. We climbed the rocky height which promised a wide view, and on reaching the top we were able to see the surrounding dense shrubs and forest trees. “My friend,” Dana said to Diana, “we may be miser...

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