Cat
She popped her head up, instantly alert. Something wasn’t right, a faint odor, but, more than that, a danger she sensed, unseen, but present nonetheless. Her eyes widened, pupils dilated...
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The Click Camera
After having bought a car, a second-hand Standard herald, for the first time somewhere around 1968, my better half and I decided to undertake a trip to the hills. Frankly, we were very...
Read MoreFoster Grandmother
“I miss Lola, Mum,” my five-year-old Anya said woefully, referring to her grandmother who was in another country. She was echoed by her three-year-old sister Thea who had gotten bored...
Read MoreBed and Breakfast
The river was dry. Charlie couldn’t remember the last time water had flowed along it. She couldn’t remember the last time it had rained either and the tanks were almost dry. She’d...
Read MoreTale of a Talking Bird
(Dedicated to the Tsunami Victims) There was a prophecy that I will catch a bird. And it would be a talking bird. It was few days to New Year. At that time I was young, and we were living...
Read MoreThe Unsaid
For the power to break the land was in fire, but fire wouldn’t come. And the power to kill the fire was in water, and water wouldn’t come. And the power to lap water was in wind but...
Read MoreMe
Listen. Did you hear them? The hills are talking to me. They called my name. They dare me to climb and see how hard life could be. What an ultimate invitation to a battle of survival....
Read MoreChristmas in Bethlehem
Four days before Christmas locusts were about to invade our village, somewhere in Bethlehem province. Everyone panicked at the news. The late rain had caused the locusts to target their...
Read MoreChildren of The Sun
When I was young, mum told me there was man in the moon. I sat every night staring at the sky, with a thousand stars dotting the naked sky. Each time I tried counting the stars I kept...
Read MoreBreathing River
It started like this, her father appeared to her in the dream and said, “Fear is a thing of the mind, love is a thing of the mind, death is a thing of the mind. Why suicide when life was...
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