…the emotions and memories of each of your last 29 years. And though your voice broke a long time ago, I still hear you before. […]
Category: writing
I remember the first time
…my mother told me she loved me. It was at the end of a dutiful telephone conversation across continents, as unexpected as it was terrifying. […]
In a timeless darkness
…in the middle of nowhere. Amidst 20 bunk beds and twice as many sleeping bodies. Look at you now, covered habitually from head to toe […]
I didn’t like her
…for a few years. There was a time when I thought she was ok company. But then she realised the power she had and took […]
My friend, the dreamer
most inspiring, most creative. Soul nutritionist. Lifter of fatigue. Years and hours I spend with you painting worlds in colours so vivid you could […]
It is done
“Raise your hands up”, I say. She obeys while moving her fingers several times against her thumbs in loose fists. “Does it hurt?” “No, only […]
Are you under the bed?
As in, you are on the phone with someone and you know they have strong phone signal but somehow their voice is muffled. The question […]
She tore her knee
Fade out. There is a screaming. This sound has taken over our whole world. It is shooting out of every pore of a young female, […]
Gallery of pain
My mistakes are snapshot, enlarged and mood framed with background emotions. For present castigation and future past reference. Your mistakes slip past you in a […]