Sometimes you just have to hit things. In Carla’s case that meant the rubber-sheathed steering wheel she was holding. Uselessly she’d already shot the…
‘You must feel so empty now,’ they whispered, knowing eyes filled with crocodile tears, faces twisted into grimaces as we stood over his grave.…
Purnima felt she was truly a child of the moon, deeply connected to the many lovely phases and silvery-golden hues of the beauty above. …
The boy asked his usual question: ‘You won’t give me up, will you?’ Sometimes he exchanged ‘up’ for ‘away’, but Elon knew it meant…
Kalpana settled into her favourite window seat in the train. Adjusting the folds of her radiant purple sari, she pulled out her notebook and…
It was that time of year in Antarctica when the sun peaked in the sky just above eye level, then dipped below the horizon…
He was the handsome sort at that time and I was only a four-year-old girl. I still remember his bright face and his two…
Frail little Sonya sat sobbing in the corner of the room. She was hungry. Her mother Tapashya sat near her, saying soothingly, “Do not…
ON HER THIRD STEP A right turn onto Seneca Street, left at McCormack, past the high school – where it began with adjoining…
The dhoti-clad, barefooted old man was sitting on a boulder facing the Brahmaputra river at a lonely place near the Don Bosco Institute. Kharghuli…
At Water’s Edge Once, when the boy barely came to the man’s knees, when the man had to tilt to reach the boy’s tiny,…
