QuillMark Issue #3

An Ode to my Sprint Partner . . . I’m still Editing
Deepti Bhatia
Have you ever noticed that nothing in your destiny is chalked out 'simply, for nothing, just like that' and that everything has a purpose? In the last seven months since I started my creative writing journey in March, I feel I have been traversing the two different perceptions of identities. I feel I am inching towards my writing aspirations by treating writing as a much sacred, much serious art than I ever did. The motivation behind this change, to me, is majorly owed to someone whom I intended to meet and forget as a passer-by. How wrong I was! Here is my confession to the girl who remained in oblivion, becoming my light.





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Deepti Bhatia
Started with code, in debug mode. Life said, ‘twist ahead’. Family first, career reversed. Twist again, pen in the main. Sung in rhyme, missed bedtime. AI-shake, heartbreak. Pen again, to deal with pain. Need of the hour, design power. Learning clicks, frames and pics. ETL tools to blurry shots; same confusion different plots.
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