Dirty Sheets: A Romantic Short

by Niranjana H

How well do you know your neighbor or the person you wish you were? 

Sahir and Nithya live the perfect life, with the perfect love, and the perfect marriage, or so it seems to the world, except for old Uncle Pinto, their watchful neighbor from across the window.

Pinto has seen it all—life, marriage, and the mundanity that comes with it all, or so forty-year-old Sahir thinks. Every afternoon, while battling the luggage that comes with marriage—one that’s almost too staged to be true, he finds the man standing watch at the window.

Can Pinto’s vigilance save Sahir from his perfect marriage, or is there more to both of the men than meets the eye?

48 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 14, 2021

About the author

Niranjana Hariharanandanan is a writer/ filmmaker from Mumbai/Kochi. Her short fiction has been published by JaggeryLit, The Punch Magazine, Soup, Indulge, The Book Smugglers Den and ChaiCopy. Dirty Sheets is her first novella. She is an alumnus of the 2019 Dum Pukht writers workshop.

Reviews

[Reader_for_LifeTLG · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good short story

Pinto gets ringside seats to his neighbors' lives. Mirroring his own many years of marriage, he watches as the husband drags himself out of his routine.