Chandrika Menon

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2020

Stories (9)

9 Stories

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“Electrozena - a power virus” by Chandrika Menon

Submitted to Contest #92

It was a Sunday pleasant morning hours; Mom, Sophie and I were just back from church. Usually as our Sunday’s breakfast were prepared by Dad. That day too, Dad did it with pouring utmost love in his new breakfast recipes. Till our way return back to home I and Sophie were too curious about his breakfast menu. In no time, both of us got fresh and hurried soon to our...

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“Simon’s dark cottage” by Chandrika Menon

Submitted to Contest #92

It’s been almost 14 years now; Simon was left all alone to darkness, after Linda (his wife) and Sam (his 12 year old son) passed away in a car accident. This also led to Simon’s partial loss of eyesight, due to which he became allergic to sunlight. In the initial stage of this tragedy, he was supported by his friends and few family members, but later along with time flow, rest everyone got engage...

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“My lady luck (A miraculous horror story of a common man)” by Chandrika Menon

Submitted to Contest #92

“Appreciable Neil, you have got a good philosophical attitude, you will go ahead in life; no doubt. You may have to struggle a lot, but there’s a unique path waiting for you.” This sounds encouraging, isn’t it? These were the words from the Father of our College at the age of 18 years for me. Even I c...

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“A Hidden truth behind Sharada’s death” by Chandrika Menon

Submitted to Contest #92

It was the summer of 1979, when the climate was hot & humid outside, in the village of Bardapur (located at Beed district of Maharashtra), the ambulance and fire engine arrived with sirens to an apartment near the old police station situated there. In no while, a huge crowd gathered near the apartment. Also there were different talks among people about the fire that broke out in the second fl...

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“Life towards footpath” by Chandrika Menon

Submitted to Contest #92

In a beautiful village known as “Nilambara”, across the greeneries, deep inside the remote areas, there stayed a upper caste traditional royal family. On the way to the hill tops in between there was a palace view bungalow of Rudra Hassan, who was the richest man in that village. He had several acres of properties, open lands, grape yards, cashew farms, plantations of rubber, teak, etc. ...

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“A Row House (Horror story of a haunted house)” by Chandrika Menon

Submitted to Contest #64

Srikumaran, a business man was on his way to the city of Ooty along with his family. He was glad & excited to re-locate to their new Row House, which he purchased some few years back under loan. After many years of tremendous pressure & hardwork he repaid all his loans & owned this row house, as desired by his wife Sumitra. Radhika, their only daughte...

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“Jenny - My true love” by Chandrika Menon

Submitted to Contest #61

It was a fine Sunday evening; I went out with my parents to a garden fence for spending some cool time. I was just 7 years old and the only adorable daughter of my parents, who were ready to do anything for my happiness. I always felt bad for myself, as my parents went out for their job; I was left at home with our maid without any siblings or friends to play wit...

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“Mr. Unknown” by Chandrika Menon

Submitted to Contest #60

What is love? Some say, “love is infinite”…whereas for some “love is life,etc”… Everyone have different opinion about love. But what is love exactly, which is still unknown to all of us. Based on the type of people, their thinking, circumstances, the definition of love is concluded by all of them. In short, everyone has got their own definition for love. Some of...

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“Friendship and Betrayal” by Chandrika Menon

Submitted to Contest #60

It was a chilled winter season, the students of KSS Engineering College were gladly preparing for celebrations of their College’s Annual day function. Finally that day came, where the final year students will say goodbye to the College and depart their ways towards their future career. The students of final year enjoyed their day as they don’t have to study all ...

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Author bio

I am a simple human being just like anyone else. Story writing and painting are my passion. To keep myself rotating and improve language skills, my passion of story writing helps me a lot to present and develop my writing skills. Stories are based on our experiences. The concept just flows in based on experiences whether it be yours or others.