‘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…
The last priest of the Fengche village descended up the dry village path overgrown with wilting pigweeds, briskly walking past the mighty old Haitala…
I am waiting for my parents. It has almost been a year since I have seen Ma. Baba visited me every four months. I…
“Ma’am, the ceremony will begin in a short time. We are waiting for the chief guest.” The event manager informed her. “OK. I’m almost…
“Two shots in the crotch. Two more in the heart. One last in the head,” Carter murmured to himself. A man laid dead in…
When the sound of a pop surfaced back to my ears, I froze in place. In that moment, the howling murderers, rapists and what…
The ceiling lights pierced her eyes as she was laid on a steel table with the hospital gown. She felt better to be in…
