Reading Time: < 1 minuteA big thanks to Gobblers/Masticadores for taking me aboard as a contributing writer. This is truly a diverse writing platform for writers from all across the world. Read ahead and…
Reading Time: 2 minutesHello. Good to see you. I’ve been waiting awhile. No problem. Come in. Have a look around. I hope you’ll like what you see. It’s been some time since anyone’s…
Reading Time: 2 minutesHey, I see you. Staring. Mean words forming on the tip of that tongue. Chinky. Yellow face. Chinese fever. I slink away. Do you notice my smile? My name is…
Reading Time: 2 minutes‘Please let me pee!’ My words elicited no response. My full bladder was squealing like a pig about to be slaughtered. Five minutes are a lot when you’re controlling the…
Reading Time: 2 minutesMy suede pants are suffocating my buttocks. The chair’s leather padding ensures that the sweat in the seat of my trousers fuses my skin to the uncomfortable fabric. I try…
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere’s a man’s face on my leg. I’ve tried figuring out if it’s someone I know, but I fail to place the handsome features, or assign a name to the…
Reading Time: 2 minutesHe stood at the street corner, the rays from the light pole bathed the vegetables on his handcart in a sickly, yellow color. But there was no other place the…
Reading Time: 2 minutesShe should have been called ‘Helen of Forks’. Why? Her name is Helen. And she is the queen of forks. It began with a curiosity for pointed objects at the…
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe hands that cradle me are confident, protective. They lay me down gently. I relish the soft extravagance. My body is new, fours days old, but my soul has been…
