Amrita Valan

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2021

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“Strangers Becoming Friends, and then Friends becoming Strangers” by Amrita Valan

She came up to me with a sweet, concerned look asking me what happened. I was agitated, and on my face it shows. As I was standing outside my six-year-old son’s school gates, berating him for losing the question paper, a security guard had imperiously questioned, whether Eddie was my child. As long as I was within school gates or crossing it, I respected their jurisdiction, even applauded their alertness, but this was too much. I had been waiting for a bus for ten minutes at least, outside the gate, haranguing my boy, who had been listened m...

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“The Empty Guest Room” by Amrita Valan

Submitted to Contest #96

David and Clinton were both one time inhabitants of the corner garden room in our L shaped bungalow. The short end of the L protruded into the lawn, and had a lovely airy bedroom with steps leading down to the garden. Since it was on the ground floor it had naturally been set aside as a guest room. Every week my brother Aidan brought home one of the hostel boys he boarded with in the city to our spacious suburban bungalow. Daddy worked with a multinational and this king size mansion was one of the perks of working in a small town away from...

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“Then and Now” by Amrita Valan

Submitted to Contest #85

Nita hesitated slightly, then pursing her lips, walked through the ornate black columns of the entrance to 6 May fair road, Owner’s Court, a sprawling complex housing two identical apartment buildings back-to-back. She had lived in one of the apartments, in the front facing building for six years, between 1977-1983. She had been eleven when her father took up a job with a new company and they moved to the residential colony attached to the factory site, on the fringes of the city. That was where she had done most of her growing up but this a...

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Author bio

Amrita Valan is a writer based in Bangalore India and has a master's degree in English Literature. She is a mother of two boys and has worked at a gamut of jobs ranging from the hospitality industry, BPOs and as content creator for deductive logic and reasoning in English. Her work has been published in several anthologies and online journals including Cafe Lit, Cafe Dissensus, Impspired, Spillwords, Portland Metrozine, Potato Soup Journal, Poetry and Places, Modern Literature, Indian Periodical, Shotglass Journal, Oddball magazine and some others. Her debut collection of poems Arrivedeci is out on Amazon since 6th May 2021.