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Weekly Contest #44
It was midnight and the streetlights were dim.The sky was painted lead and pink. A dusty storm accompanied by tiny droplets of rain gave Shalini a sense of foreboding. Shalini was walking alone, slowly down the lane in a part of town where no lone woman should be walking, especially at that time of the night. The place was completely dark, shadowed by tall buildings on either side. A few industrial-sized bins contributed to the inner-city stench—a simmering mix of grime and garbage, with a tinge of acrid summer ozone. Strips of light escaped...
Weekly Contest #42
Kavita was eight years old when she first saw her mother Neena sobbing and wiping away her tears in her cotton saree. Neena was a single mother who worked around the town as a maid after she was casted out of the house by her landlord Raj and his family due to an awful sin he had committed but never atoned for. This was when Neena realized the ordeals a woman encounters when she is trapped in the claws of a patriarchal society and how the woman always has to carry the burden of a man’s sin.Raj never called Kavita by her name. He would always...
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