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Bela decides to repair the broken time machine that she found in her basement to go meet her father who went missing years ago. Reading time: 21.515 minutes. T ime is mysterious. It both creates and destroys things. Sometimes I feel that time is the real god. Time has created this universe, time governs it and, time will end it. Other times, I just wonder what created time? Who or what can be so powerful, can have the authority and wisdom to create such mysteriously beautiful thing. Sometimes I just wonder… Chapter One The Mysterious Disappearance of My Father My father went missing right before I was born. Nobody could ever find him. I don’t have any memory of the time, how could I? But I heard a lot of things while growing up. My neighbours would talk for years. They said he ran on my mother. A friend of my mother’s helped her until I was one year old. I vaguely remember her. Kids in my school taunted me for my entire school life. Bullies just teased me while beating...

An alien lands on Earth and walks across the planet, looking for his lost love until he finds her. Reading time: 12 minutes. Now, also available on Wattpad and Pratilipi. SENSITIVE CONTENT WARNING! Chapter One Walking Walking—that's one of the few things I remembered. I had been walking ever since I had landed on this planet. I didn't know how long I had been walking or how far I had come. I just remembered walking. I remembered the first time my feet touched the ground. The dry and hot sand burned my soles. I remembered when my lungs filled with this foreign air and the sun shone on my head. It was so familiar with my planet that it almost felt like I was back home. The first thing different from our planet that I noticed was the day-night cycle. The day lasted only for a few hours. I got scared at first, thinking I'd have to hunt for food for a long time, but only a few hours later, the sun rose again. My first task was to find the inhabitants of this planet, so I walke...

A mysterious killer has terrified the criminals of Crime-City. Dead bodies are dropping every night. It will be the worst time to visit, and a girl does precisely that. Reading time: 29 minutes. Now, also available on Wattpad and Pratilipi . SENSITIVE CONTENT WARNING! Chapter One  Crime-City The night was quiet, and the wind tiptoed around the pier where a dozen men were busy unloading unmarked packages from a boat into a van. The name on the board was as old as the city itself, Crime-City. They called it so because no one remembered the actual name, not even the descendants of the founders. The men did their jobs well without stopping for a second even to chat. They worked in complete silence as if they didn't want to bother the sleeping city, not that they cared. It was night, and the night in Crime-City belonged to the criminals. They weren't worried about the police. Why would they be? The city had a system. What they should have been worried about was a hooded f...