Sex Stories

The bass from the speakers was so heavy I could feel it vibrating in the ice cubes of my drink. It was my friend Sarah’s housewarming party, a "friends-of-friends" mashup that packed forty people into a two-bedroom apartment. The air was thick with the scent of expensive gin, woodsmoke from the fireplace, and the...

UNFINISHED LESSONS That was what Kavya told herself as her heels clicked down the Humanities corridor at College in Pune, the same corridor she had walked a hundred times at twenty-two, carrying notebooks and quiet longing in equal measure. She was thirty-one now. She had a research fellowship, two published papers, and a guest...

Room 214 had a sea view, a four-poster bed draped in white, and a bottle of champagne in a bucket of ice that neither of them had touched. Meera stood at the balcony railing, the Arabian Sea enormous before her, lit by a half-moon that didn't care about the enormity of what had just...

Priya stood at the window of her Bandra flat, watching the street below drown. A chai gone cold on the sill. She had nowhere to be — her Sunday flight to Hyderabad was cancelled, her weekend plans dissolved into grey, and the only thing left was the sound of rain hitting glass like it had...

We had been out on a date when it started raining heavily. It had already got dark and nothing could be seen amidst the torrential rain.  It was impossible to drive the motorcycle in such heavy rain. We were drenched to our last bits and needed to wait for the rain to stop to...