The dance of the light sabres on the canal water did little to convince Noa that they were mere reflections of neon lights. The neon signs were the signature since time immemorial. Their colour even lent itself in naming the place. As she sat dangling her legs over the canal with a Heineken on her hand, she scanned the masses that were thronging into the lanes lining the canal. Young, old, white, black, brown, males, females, couples, singles, all with impertinent expressions laced in lust. Noa let out a sigh, an ode to how human nature never ceased to amaze her. In one of the windows near her: “Hey, how much are you down for pretty thing?” The middle aged Korean smiled as he moved his lips and waved his hands to get his message of interest across the glass door. The brunette in her leopard skin lingerie, hugging…
Marge stood naked as a jaybird at the kitchen sink. The air was so hot, she had peeled her thin dress off and thrown…
“Weather today will see most of the country under heavy spells of rain…” The weather lady on TV warned. Amara told her mum that…
I was sitting on the mat, completing the remaining afternoon prayer, and somewhat feeling uninterested in life. As the dry lips uttered the…
“The banging is only going to get louder. Should I open the door?” asked Kalyaan, frantic from the sight of the mob outside on…
“And then there was this whole screaming episode?” “Yes, of course. That’s how all the neighbours got to know.” “Well, thank God she wasn’t…
At twenty-six, was Gayatri Iyer a typical Tam-Brahm? Well-endowed, blessed with sparkling white teeth, her beautiful eyes were forlorn. She had renewed her passion…
He waited in the dark. It is said that ‘patience pays’.Well, if that were true, he would certainly have been a king by then,…
In the wee small hours of Wednesday morning, before the cock could sing its cock-a-doodle-doo, the alarm went offin a harsh crescendo, and Kushal…
