Amrita Sarkar

Author on Reedsy Prompts since May, 2021

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“The Cuckoo Clock” by Amrita Sarkar

Submitted to Contest #99

Mira gazed at the horizon from her window as the setting sun stroked her face with its rubicund fingers. It was the time of the day when it painted the greys in her hair orange. On the flaked wall, chimed her old cuckoo clock. Exactly at 6 pm, the bird came out of her wooden gates and cried out ‘koo-kooo’. After its third cry, it retreated. The cuckoo inside the house had always amused Mira. She remembere...

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“Desidera” by Amrita Sarkar

Submitted to Contest #97

Even though it was the only one in that matchbox-sized one-room apartment, it was the first thing that caught Macy’s eye. The lot-line window in the nook of a kitchen, with a sill narrower than her handbag's bottom. It hadn’t been boarded up yet. She peeked through it, and saw the rooftop of an old store, several feet below. She had already started to sketch her own mental blueprint fo...

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Author bio

Amrita here...I am a homemaker currently who was foolhardy enough to quit a corporate career so she could write. I am currently based in Kolkata, India. In 2019, one of my short stories got selected as a winning entry for Times of India Write India Season 3 contest. It was based on a thriller-prompt provided by bestselling author, Clare Mackintosh. One of my stories was published recently in an anthology called #Love by a publishing group called 'The Hive'. I have also self-published a novella on Amazon called The Untouchables. Hoping to learn a lot more by reading and participating in Reedsy contests.