The Reward for True Love

Ananya couldn't have expected what happened that fateful day. Aviral had always been an abusive husband yet she saw something in him that didn't let her stop loving him. That Wednesday she planned a road trip to help Aviral unwind. The car got a flat tyre on a deserted stretch of the highway and Aviral asked her to fetch the wheel wrench and the jack from the trunk. The wrench was under the front seat.
The cold bars of his prison cell were indeed no thicker than the bloodied wrench the police found near Ananya's corpse.

Criminals Who Introspect

The distraught delinquent walked to the end of the deserted wharf. His gaze met the horizon, searching for another place. A place where he would be free. Free to be himself. Why should he stay here where he is upbraided for everything he does? Maybe there’s an island out there where he could live all alone, happily. As the sun set into the grey sea and turned the sky purple, he realised, his happiness was as ephemeral as the sun’s position in the sky. Will taking another step forward and letting the sea consume him make his happiness permanent?