Deya Bhattacharya is a freelance writer and former business development manager from India who started exploring the world of literary fiction during the Covid-19 lockdown. Her short story 'Knocker' was declared Spotlight Winner in the Jan/Feb 2021 issue of Eclectica, and her story 'Adrian's Affinity' is forthcoming on Season 2 of Pendust Radio, a literary podcast. She will be attending the Sewanee Writers' Conference in 2021 as a Fiction Contributor. She blogs about the writing life at oncetherewasasilenttown.com.
Happy Place
My first brush with the Happy Place could have happened one of two ways. It was either the email itself, sent en masse by them to a list that comprised what they presumed to be a target audience, or it was an advert that had popped up somewhere on a social feed and on which my scrolling thumb had rested long enough to count as a click. The laws of Internet probability dictate that some version of the latter led to the former… Read more.
Daffodils
A great blond vista of daffodils rose before us. They looked like stubble, the 5 P.M. stubble on the great big beard of Father Earth. Spring is here, each of them insisted. I was free. Read more.