He had been pestering me for a while. Tugging my branded shirt, pulling at my sleeves, he continued to follow every movement of mine. Twice I tried to brush him off, but he seemed unperturbed. He pursued me with great enthusiasm and mumbled under his breath, “A few more. Please give me a few more.” [...]
It all happened in the dark. Moon was sleeping behind the clouds and the stars were on a leave that night. A solitary breeze was strolling through the lonesome streets. It was half past twelve when Elisa got on the bus. She was late; very late. At the last minute, her manager showed up with [...]
I was feeling the enigmatic insects flying around my room since two months. I was wondering where they come from, every day I kill twenty to thirty of them, but the very next day, they all come again. I tried to clean up all the mess and put some insecticides so that all of them [...]
He was poor. 14 years of age; six out of which were spent collecting pieces of rotten papers from garbage. He searched through trash cans for those polluted objects as if looking for some clean pieces of life; some fresh days and some un-prewritten moments. He hadn’t eaten for two days. What he found was [...]
(1) The first hues of the rising sun fell on the landscape. For this small village stationed beside a turbulent stream flowing down the sloping valley, the golden red rays of the sun were greeted by the children’s loud prayers. Their teacher recited along with them as their collective voices drowned in the cradle of [...]
What is it all for?” he thought as he drove down the wet and lonely streets of the darkened city on his way back to the cave. On the horizon, the first light of day faintly began to creep out to welcome another working day. “I just can’t believe I have to be at work [...]
She danced like a wild mare. Her bare feet moved on that solid cold floor unwillingly and unintentionally, out of sheer habit of tapping on the beat of some provocative music. Her hands flickered in asymmetrical motion slitting that thick air filled with cigarette smoke and smell of cheap alcohol. She danced scarcely clad, with [...]
The Photographic memory of that insect remains in my mind even today. I don’t remember exactly when it happened, but I do remember how it happened. It was my childhood; my new moneybox had all my savings in it. I had only one key to that box as the spare key was lost some time [...]
Bricks, sand, steel and the deafening sounds of dreadful machines; as far back as she could remember that’s how her life had become. Her feet had long forgotten the soft feel of a pair of comfortable shoes or even remotely fashionable sandals; her only comfort was that wooden plateau that would bend a fraction to [...]
My heart starts pounding louder and louder as I get closer and closer to my destination; a fateful meeting it will be, a meeting to decide how today will end and tomorrow will begin! I mean for me it has to be the most dreaded visit of them all, something I must do, and eventually [...]