Never was it an easy journey by Chandrika R Krishnan

When Anne felt the feather-light brush on the underside of her breast, she looked up sharply. She sighed at his studiously cultivated look of innocence.

When Anne got onto the home-bound bus, she had quite forgotten the ordeal of her college-going days. Nothing much has changed in the intervening years, she muttered as she removed the crocheted knocker from under her dress and said loudly. “Here, have this! It will make your life easier.”

Horrified, he jumped off the running bus, while she in her colourful scarf covering her baldness, chuckled amidst appreciative cheers. She continued on her journey towards remission.

Chandrika R Krishnan is a Bengaluru-based writer and educationist, who likes all things beginning with a ‘T’ – talking, teaching, tales and tea. A people person and a wordsmith, she weaves fiction and dispenses ‘gyaan’ alike to the unsuspecting audience. Her 250+ odd articles, poems, and stories have found a home in both print and online media in the likes of Reedsy, Khabar, New Woman, and Good Housekeeping India besides being long listed in Australian writers’ center and Strands International Fiction contest. Her writings are mostly eclectic and experiential. She is a published author, and her collection of flash fiction titled- vignettes- a slice of life. is available on Amazon along with her other anthologies.

Never was it an easy journey was first published at chandrikarkrishnan.com

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