“You or me?” What does the two-legged demon do when he arrives at that knot in the thicket?” Sheshnag said in an accurate imitation of Mama, gracefully weaving between the hollow bamboo branches. Unsurprising, since we were acquainted from the time, I was a calf and he, merely an egg in a clutch below the dense bamboo thickets my herd visited often. “Always Me! The two-legged demon will say before killing you. So, you my gullible daughters, live by my rules or die!” He made comical sputtering noises. Failing to mimic Mama’s trumpet but eliciting a smile from me. A secret smile, lest I encouraged him further. “Rule one. Feast on the tasteless leaves and peel your trunk away from luscious fruit bounties offered by the two-legged demon. Else I shall sever your trunk!” he mocked. My secret smiles hardly mattered anymore. He had the best source of inspiration a…
The young, roughman sitting in front of me, on the bench,looked visibly ashamed. Now and then he tried to put an end to the…
Millie mooed. Cate mooed with her. The cow stared at them. Millie giggled at the old joke, a pure, authentic song. Cate giggled with…
St Petersburg, Russia, 1796 The lights in the empty hallway were just dim enough to conjure sinister ghosts and demons from the shadows,…
“Do you have anyorange juice?” Isla leaned over to the small table full of drinks and snacks, and whispered the words to the man…
Jugal’s eyes glued to the newspaper. It has been several years since Jugal has passed out of University. Armed with a degree of…
I remember both vividly; the night I saw the ghost of Annette and the night I heard about her death. They happened in that…
I find women to be strange. Imprudent. Thoughtless. In the midst of the pandemic, they are restless about the hair on their skulls, on…
“Malati, hey Malati. Open the door, open it quickly.” Roma Aaba yelled out running for Malati from the courtyard. “What a bimbo! Open it…
