Prisha arose from a tangle of sheets and placed her bare feet on the straw mat next to the bed. The early morning sunlight that streamed through the slats of the shutter that covered the bedroom window glinted from the gold ring she wore on the toe of her right foot. She slowly stood allowing her head and body adjust to the dizzying act of standing, an effect of a genetic inner-ear condition that only occasional acupuncture treatments provided brief relief from. She took her blue flower-print sari from the back of the chair and wrapped it around her body and then walked to the mirror. The bindi in the middle of her forehead had faded to a very pale red. She removed the cap from the jar of kumkum on the shelf beneath the mirror and dabbed her finger into the red paste and then applied it over top…
The Christmas tree still stood in the corner of the living room, its bulbs unlit and hanging from loops of green electrical cord among…
Aika sat beneath the blossoming boughs of a cherry tree catching falling petals in the palms of her outstretched hands. Her lips trembled as…
The gentle waves of the Yellow River tapped against the sides of Wang Wei’s sampan, producing shallow reverberations, like fingers drumming arrhythmically on the…
The fragrance of wet earth had floated around deliciously since they had arisen. This had induced Father to take several deep breaths. The outcome…
“How could he do this?” thought Subrat. “He’s such an intelligent boy.” He looked at his watch and shook his head. It was five…
Adi smiled. He darted towards the corner table, evading the subtle, curious gazes of the other guests. His eyes gleamed, reflecting the soft, golden…
It was two weeks since Dinesh Nair died from an overdose of sleeping pills. No one had any answer. Akanksha took off her glasses…
Piyush Chawla flashed his boarding pass to the security guard at the airport entrance. It was noon – an hour and forty-five minutes for…
