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…
Reading Time: 2 minutesMy mother sits by the window. She’s been stationed there for almost three months now. It seems as if she’s waiting for an unknown visitor. Her eyes, glazed, crawl upon…
Reading Time: 2 minutesMansukh stood at the base of the mountain. It was now or never. The brown feet in his brown sandals hesitated. His shapely toes dug into the soft leather. This…
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe tea has come to a boil. So has my temper. The air is electric, one spark and the entire kitchen – BOOM! He’s waiting for his first cup of…
Reading Time: 2 minutesI am the only color in a mass of black and grey. Orange shirt, green trousers, mustard shoes with purple laces. A cigarette hangs from my lips, unlit. I have…