https://www.prateeknigam.me/about-5 daily 0.75 2021-03-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606462216c87371dfa505bf6/1617195268841-Z1XXY29AW2K0T3HJW04B/Screenshot_20210226-085724.jpg About https://www.prateeknigam.me/about-5-1 daily 0.75 2022-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606462216c87371dfa505bf6/1617195349223-YY63CGMLENS68J2L8FCQ/Screenshot_20210226-085724.jpg About Me - Prateek has been living in Bangalore for the past decade. He writes code for a living. In his more youthful days, he used to moonlight as a kickboxing instructor. More recently he has taken to writing short stories. Some of his works have appeared in Spark magazine, Wasafiri magazine, Jaggery Lit, and Muse India. His story “Less Than Perfect” was short-listed for the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize in 2019. He is a South Asia Speaks 2022 fellow where he plans to work on his collection of linked short stories. In his spare time he likes to cook, eat, sleep, read, write, and collect art prints from glossy magazines and old calendars. https://www.prateeknigam.me/fiction daily 1.0 2025-04-03 https://www.prateeknigam.me/fiction/a-place-of-our-own monthly 0.5 2024-07-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606462216c87371dfa505bf6/735dbe74-240b-4bc0-8ebd-27af813aa194/dattatreya-patra-RoghbRtRG28-unsplash.jpg Fiction - A Place of Our Own - In Bangalore, you always start in the belly of the beast. You fall for the quaint little cafes dotting the side roads. You sip a million cups of filter coffee and dig into the sticky fudge brownies with the same sticky spoon you stirred your coffee with. You walk under the shade of popcorn bushes and Indian walnuts. You look up at the brilliant blue sky and the sun sailing across it like a spoonful of butter melting on warm toast. Read the full story in the BWW Bangalore Anthology https://www.prateeknigam.me/fiction/for-hers-is-the-kingdom-of-heaven monthly 0.5 2021-12-20 https://www.prateeknigam.me/fiction/with-a-dollop-of-butter monthly 0.5 2021-03-31 https://www.prateeknigam.me/fiction/the-right-man-is-just-around-the-corner monthly 0.5 2021-09-30 https://www.prateeknigam.me/fiction/lahwf monthly 0.5 2021-03-31 https://www.prateeknigam.me/fiction/chronicles-of-naraina-heights monthly 0.5 2021-03-31 https://www.prateeknigam.me/fiction/less-than-perfect monthly 0.5 2021-09-30 https://www.prateeknigam.me/fiction/kamikaze-over-coffee monthly 0.5 2021-03-31 https://www.prateeknigam.me/fiction/the-price-of-goat monthly 0.5 2021-09-30