Right now she is seated so close to me that I can feel her breath on my skin. In this blood freezing winter, I can’t resist longer against her heat-pumping eyes. She has been glaring at me for quite some time now and I am burning in the warmth of her intentions. I might have [...]
“Bangles…multicolored bangles ….new stone setting bangles…at very low prices…take a dozen and get half a dozen free.” Her rhythmic voice echoed in every nook and corner of the small village. She was Rangoli. Her tone penetrated every village household on a regular basis as morning descended. She carried a basket full of glass bangles, in [...]
He couldn’t even set up his tripod there; his hands were not as steady as they used to be some years ago. Age was taking its toll from his energy. After ten minutes of struggle with the tripod he finally mounted his camera on it; but he had forgotten to put the film inside. “God [...]
Today is the day when I’m going to make it happen; Mica McAllister said to himself, his thoughts preoccupied as he walked along with Allie Carmen. It was a perfect autumn afternoon, tall trees standing proud, over their heads. The sun peered teasingly out of the clouds with unexpected light showers dampening the atmosphere. As [...]
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 [...]
Ivory silk, pale angel wings; you are, the temple of innocence. Footsteps whisper on smooth, white marble…silver anklets hinting songs of the ancient. You’re a dream, a reverie pure from the silhouette of reality. Look at you, so pure, your skin so unmarked. Wild mint playing hide and seek amongst the silver ribbons tumbling upon [...]
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 [...]
It didn’t know how to fly. A dry yellow leaf wandered across the aged bridge; how it got there, it didn’t know. Every time a car would pass by; the leaf would whoosh after it with a hint of a flight but then will fall back on the cold concrete. He didn’t know how to [...]