Paranoia There are eyes everywhere There are bad whispers in the ears There are palpitations at every turn Need to rest the brain Mute the buttons Sew a new song The eyes dart to and from No rest till there’s no more The bloodied fingers are too salty […]
Well, my cereal bowl was actually not remarkable in any conventional sense of the word. I had cereal today. That’s a rarity for me. I also had it for lunch as opposed to breakfast. I hate conventional breakfasts. I had a version of corned beef and rice […]
All he wanted to do was chomp He was born to chomp And a good chomp he had Everyone told him so growing up He could chomp, chomp, chomp with the best of them He was boxed up Ready to serve the world or at least a […]
The morning horn sounded and the kids left their bunkers heading out to the fields sleepy-eyed. It didn’t matter how many times they did this, they were always sleepy. They went barefoot so that they could feel the moist morning grass. It helped them feel alive […]
Every year, we arrive at December thinking about the ups and downs we went through the past 12 months. Its a ritual. We all do it. Every year it seems there was something extraordinarily different. It was crazier. It was unprecedented. It was the best. It could […]
She opened her eyes and it was still dark out. She scanned the room knowing that she needed her medication immediately. She couldn’t let a second more go by. Her stomach was knotted and she felt there was no end in sight. She needed to numb it all. […]
I have been running around the house, the past week, like a madwoman. Cleaning, tidying up, throwing things out. I have been chasing the dog. I have been holding the dog as boxes upon boxes get delivered to our house. It has felt like everything has been […]
Tick tock. Tick tock. Her bags were packed and she was beyond excited for this opportunity of a lifetime. Ever since she was a kid she had dreamt of this moment. She had been so quiet about it all. Although, she had been the best singer in all of […]
So many thought of her as evil. She was the Ice Queen, afterall. But it wasn’t like that. It wasn’t meant to be like that. She didn’t have the power to turn things into ice and icicles. They had long ago ceased to have summers and […]
It was her very first memory. Or so she told herself and everybody else who cared to hear about her memories. It was not the best conversation starter or enabler at a party. However, she fared better with the story at small, intimate dinner parties. For at […]