"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."Rabindranath TagoreWhat you hold is a collection of some of the finest tales of monsoon from over 25 writers. Each written with the motive of stirring up the latent artist within you.This is an initiative of a group called "The monthly anthologies". The group aims at coming up with something new every month. Something creative for new and aspiring w...

What are the 5 characteristics of a short story?They are true masters at combining the five key elements that go into every great short story:character, setting, conflict, plot and theme.The basic steps of a plot are: conflict begins, things go right, things go WRONG, final victory (or defeat), and wrap-up. The right-wrong steps can repeat.A novel can have several conflicts, but a short story should have only one.While we selected these stor...