Bipasha Mandal

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2019

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“Cherry blossoms” by Bipasha Mandal

Submitted to Contest #50

  “I really do not understand what you mean.”A wild thing hammered in Teesta’s chest as she tiredly said,” Please give me some time to sort things out,” and turned away from Shayon’s face. It was painful to look at him right now. The night breathed, scattering the cherry blossom petals against a sky bright with the ascending full moon. The stinging coolness made her aware of the rivulets down her cheeks for the first time. Aaah
she thought, looking up, the cherry tree, so beautiful
as always. Unaware of hereself, she smiled at...

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“Rain-coloured rose” by Bipasha Mandal

Submitted to Contest #49

She had been searching for it a long time, a rose the colour of the rain sky. The florist waved a hand inviting her to look around. The wrinkles beside her eyes deepened in an appreciative way. Slowly, supporting herself laboriously on crutches, she moved over to inspect the white flowers. She was looking for a flower which held in its depths the gloom of rain clouds, its outer petals glowing with the dull radiance of a downcast sky.   But why particularly such a flower? – the florist asked half laughingly, although by now he had g...

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“Higanbana* ” by Bipasha Mandal

Submitted to Contest #9

  ‘’Say what you have to- and do not give an afterthought’’, was the golden rule by which Mrs. Sato lived. Not that frankness was appreciated by anyone these days.  Her husband had died a year ago. Since then, Mrs. Sato had devoted her time and energy, which was heretofore engaged in the care of the invalid, to finding out and sitting on judgment on her neighbours’ affairs. Had anyone taken the liberty to peer behind the exterior of formidable officiousness, then they would have seen that Mrs. Sato’s avid interest in othe...

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