She was distraught. After all these years, he’d left her. Instinct told her that he’d left her for another woman, perhaps a woman much younger than herself. As she sat at the window of her ground-floor flat, looking out onto the neat, handkerchief garden, a cup of coffee in her hand, her eyes misted over. [...]
Exactly 6:30pm. The clock in the tower chimed. I felt the coldness of the night as the sun descended. I said good-bye to him at the gate, outside my house. He was in a rush; he’d remembered he has a train to catch – missing it, he feared would be an unbearable pain for the [...]
The thunderstorm from the day before has finally stopped. The atmosphere had been stifling. Only one more tree left to fall. It feels like the hour in between this and that jannat and jahnum neither quite here nor there. It is a little after three and the air is still charged. At this [...]
Phone rings… Boy: Hello. Girl: Silence. Boy: Hello (with a sharp voice). Girl: Silence (thinking she may lose herself in his voice forgetting all about the rest of the world whirling around her). Boy: Hello!! (This time a bit furious and feeling disturbed in the middle of the night due to the time difference between [...]
“Take these coins” said the grandma. “Don’t be late after school. I will be waiting for you to watch our favorite TV serial”, then gave a warm smile to her granddaughter which was even more precious than the coins in her pocket. She thought how lucky she had been, being the favored grandchild leaving all [...]
The nurse drew the lacy curtains to block the afternoon sunlight pouring into the room. The newborn babies’ ward was a sight of serenity. Most of the babies had gone into deep slumber snoring softly; the remaining ones were sighing contently in their cribs. The nurse adjusted the blankets onto the babies before leaving the [...]
‘All passengers are requested to fasten their seat belts.’ a dignified female’s voice echoed through the plane aisle. ‘We shall be taking off from Dubai International Airport in the next 10 minutes and reach Heathrow Airport in an estimated 7 hours. Enjoy your flight.’ She ended in a chirpy tone. Goodbye vacation, Cherie sighed inwardly [...]
He went silent. After having lumbered through the streets while the night fell softly from the sky, he rested on a rude patch of the sidewalk. An aged lamppost glared at him with its quivering pale light; adding extra melancholy to his already burdened day. Words had run out; and whatever voice was left to [...]
The ocean was a null void, an expression of calm seclusion amidst the foul cries of the seagulls wandering at a regular pace in the sky. The unreachable mass of blue beckoned the lone yacht further and further, into the mysteries unfolded. The yacht sailed beyond, being the only white object noticeable to a vacant [...]
At last I am able to get some fresh air leaving all the burden of the office behind. Having a tensed and hectic day, I needed so much to throw myself in the arms of the crowded streets to hide myself among all those people. I am just one of them with slight differences. May [...]