• English - Horror

    Chalk Outline

    July 16, 2025 - By 

    Nikita Kaul 1 The first time Tanvi Mehra heard about the chalk outline was during her third day at St. Augustine’s Residential Academy for Girls. It was whispered between two girls in the library, their voices low but their eyes flickering with unmistakable fear. The words “outline,” “disappears,” and “Ragini” caught Tanvi’s attention like hooks in water. She leaned further behind the old geography shelf, heart thudding—not from belief, but curiosity. She had transferred here from Delhi after a messy school suspension and an even messier stepfather situation. Her mother called this place a “fresh start.” Tanvi called it a…

  • Crime - English

    The Mist over Mussoorie

    July 6, 2025 - By 

    Kiran Malhotra Chapter 1: Return to the Hills Aryan Mehta stepped off the narrow mountain road and onto the familiar moss-stained path that led to St. Luke’s Academy, the colonial-era boarding school where he had spent four complicated, unforgettable years of his youth. The air in Mussoorie carried its perennial chill, tinged with the scent of damp pine needles and the metallic bite of rain-soaked stone, wrapping the hillside in a soft, relentless mist that seemed to muffle every footstep, every birdcall, every human breath. Even now, so many years later, the sight of the grand stone archway—its crest still…