‘Are you sitting down?’ ‘Yep,’ I reply. I have no idea who I am speaking to, but from the pitch of his voice it sounds serious and not the time to ask. ‘It all happened so suddenly.’ ‘Did it?’ still unclear… ‘She didn’t answer her phone. I just assumed it was out of battery’ (is this some weird charity scam?) ‘I see’ I said. So it’s a female. I don’t have any friends; they gave up on me years ago and I don’t really speak to anyone from my family (if you had met them, you would understand why). I don’t think I have ever liked anyone enough to give the appropriate reaction the voice is hoping for. ‘It was the bath’ I am still not sure what has happened, and how a bath was involved. I can’t ask who I am speaking to now, they sound like they know…
Along the river banks of the Mekong River, cluttered along the edge of the jungle that looks to overtake them at any time, are…
At the T-junction where the exit lane from Hosea Kutako International Airport extending left and right seemed almost too slender to be the main…
Satish and Vidya landed at Boston Logan Airport to spend some time with their daughter, Rachana. She with her husband Navin received them and…
Nyx sat by the warm fire, looking at the smoldering ashes left behind by the bough of an olive tree. It was not the…
I have read many a sad page, seen many a weepy motion picture, but I have never known what grief was really like until…
That was Kojagiri Purnima night when the moon comes closer to the earth and appears larger than the usual full moon. It is usually…
Winter is approaching fast. Autumn comes routinely as expected. The cool, crisp, morning sun gives a reprieve from the summer heat. But then summer…
Instead of an unknown scare and anxiety while receiving a telegram that made me feel oh My God I got a telegram! I was…
‘Are you going to get her soon, Steve?’ ‘What did you say dear? Yes, it has been a long time, nearly a whole week.…