Short fiction by Ronak Chatterjee

Stories for the
restless mind.

Mysteries, impossible memories, and people who probably should not exist. Best read when the room goes quiet.

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Featured story · Archive 01

I Went to Report My Murder

July 20264 min readMystery / Speculative

A man walks into a police station to report his own murder. The trouble is not convincing the officer, it is remaining someone the officer can remember.

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Archive 02 · 2 min read

The Silent Dagger

At a funeral beneath a gathering storm, a beautiful woman mourns under the gaze of someone who knows exactly what she has done. Death, unfortunately for her, has not ended the conversation.

Archive 03 · 2 min read

Lights Out!

A frightened tenant writes for help after the lights in his apartment begin obeying something other than electricity. Every attempt to understand the pattern only brings the darkness closer.

Archive 04 · 2 min read

Paramount’s Last Artist

A grieving boy inherits an abandoned art school and the shadow of his grandfather’s final masterpiece. Soon, the paintings begin revealing things no canvas should know.

Archive 05 · 2 min read

Whispers of Anxiety

A girl hides in a cave from a fear she cannot explain, while a loyal friend tries to coax her back outside. The truth makes her terror far stranger than either of them imagined.

Archive 06 · 5 min read

The Collector

With a man-eating tiger prowling outside, Alice seeks safety in an isolated cabin and its forbidden attic. But the creature in the forest may not be the evening’s most dangerous collector.

Archive 07 · 3 min read

Who Is Behind That Door?

A new owner becomes obsessed with a sealed room inside his centuries-old palace. When he looks through the keyhole, he discovers that curiosity can stare back.

Archive 08 · 2 min read

The Only Jury

In a future where murder has supposedly been engineered out of society, one man has learned how to fool every system. Then he meets the only juror whose judgment he cannot manipulate.

Archive 09 · 8 min read

I Love Tech

On the day Jae launches the app that will define his future, technology opens a door far beyond anything he built. On the other side, progress has a very different meaning.

Archive 10 · 9 min read

The Sky Is Blank

A fugitive awakens beneath a sky without stars and finds a town guarded by rules no one will explain. Escape is possible, but freedom comes with a post that has waited years to be filled.

Archive 11 · 6 min read

Figment

Everyone insists Ralph is imaginary, yet he remains the only person who truly understands Hikaru. A doctor’s verdict forces the boy to decide which reality deserves his trust.

Archive 12 · 7 min read

Willis Palace

A decorated officer writes to his wife from a manor where a missing child, a black path and a buried family secret refuse to stay in the past. It may be the last letter he ever sends.

Archive 13 · 7 min read

The Cursed Chronicle

A student’s questions lead him to a forbidden book and a teacher who has outlived his own history. Some lessons promise immortality; the examination is less generous.

Archive 14 · 7 min read

What Happened Yesterday?

Amit wakes with a hole where yesterday should be and a mother far too calm about his missing memories. The answer may already be simmering in the kitchen.

Archive 15 · 10 min read

Have a Sip.

In a quiet Marseille bar, a desperate man accepts a drink from a stranger who seems to know the password to his family’s salvation. By morning, he is no longer sure whom, or what, he met.

Archive 16 · 6 min read

The Sorting Hat Is Stolen. And I’m the Thief.

A curious Muggle steals a magical hat to discover where he truly belongs. The hat has opinions, the school has questions, and neither is prepared for his spectacular lack of magic.

Archive 17 · 10 min read

Celtic Island

A doctor travels to a remote island to evaluate a patient whose story refuses to remain clinically impossible. By the time identities begin to shift, the island has already closed its trap.

Archive 18 · 8 min read

The Things We See

During his ordinary bus journey, Tama notices a girl no one else acknowledges. When she finally speaks, her question is simpler, and more frightening, than any ghost story.

Archive 19 · 10 min read

Keep the Film Rolling

A boy haunted by inherited memories enters an abandoned theatre where the dead continue watching. When the projector starts, history is no longer safely behind him.

Archive 20 · 6 min read

The Glitter in Her Eyes.

In post-Partition Sindh, a young girl ignores her mother’s warnings and follows a light into the woods. She returns home safely, but something in her mother’s eyes has changed.

About the author

Ronak writes short stories about ordinary people encountering deeply unhelpful versions of reality.

Mystery, speculative fiction, dark comedy, sometimes all three walk into the same police station. This is the permanent home for the complete collection.