I hear in your voice

…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. […]

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 […]