I still don’t know many things, but what I know is what I want and I know what I need, so I can recognize the differences between my wants and my needs. I know which things matter most in Life and that the “things” are not truly “things”, that’s why I don’t focus on a big house or a new car but on peace in my soul and Love in my heart instead. I know, that life begins where your comfort zone ends, that’s why I’m not afraid to leave mine. I know, that the only unchangeable thing in Life is change itself, that’s why I don’t fight with what Is, and I take new experiences as a chance to learn and personally grow. I know that every story has to finish at one point, that’s why I keep my eyes open and don’t wait for the end, but live…
The jeweler was in her late forties, with hair that had been dyed blonde and was shortened in a cropped, modern hairstyle that looked…
They were eighteen, dark and green. Yet, they seemed as untold legends for me. Eighteen in all, gracefully they stood, erect and tall, in…
Prize winning story by the Caribbean Regional Winner of the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize My mother voice growing old over the telephone. First…
A silent house sat there, full of people who did not hear each other, so the house was silent It also felt empty, as…
I was given a five-minute slot for my interview with God. St. Luke ushered me into the Artists Waiting Area and briefed me. “When…
Rosemary Fell was not exactly beautiful. No, you couldn’t have called her beautiful. Pretty? Well, if you took her to pieces… But why be…
He used to tip the scales at a hefty seven pounds. These days, he weighs less than five. His hearing deserted him first, his…
One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time…
The soft clay that felt so clammy and velvety against the feet in those paddy fields…Urvija thought in herself while feeling the splashes of the…
