Someone Heard
It was a dark and stormy night; amid thunderclaps, I heard his elephantine footsteps approaching my room. I shrank into the carapace of my blanket, like a terrapin, and beseeched… Read more »
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Ramadan Prank
Time has become binary for Ammi. When I call her and ask when she will visit her sister or when she will get the doors painted, she says ‘After Ramadan’… Read more »
How to make mango pickle(my mother’s way)
1. Pray and wait for a stormy night in early summer, around mid May/early June, to give the mango trees a vigorous shake and drop the green mangoes to the… Read more »
Sun Across Continents
This post first appeared on The Pendora Magazine. Every winter morning, I open the blinds and look out the bedroom window of my suburban house in Ohio to see if… Read more »
Little Hunter
She purrs, slides from my lap, walks towards the kitchen.Hunkers down — ears thrust forward,back raised, tail twitching.I start. I am curious too. Written for #MicroMondays
I don’t want to know(Free Verse)
It’s past six My texts go unanswered Calls slither to voicemail I glance again at the clock Moving faster than normal? Shushing my heartbeat I start kneading the dough My… Read more »
The Real Price
In 2004,my husband was assigned to a long-term project in the USA and he asked me to join him so that we could witness the sun rise and set at… Read more »
Rain was different
My sallow eyes watch torrents of rain Lashing the glass windows Of my chic office on the seventeenth floor I can’t hear the tinkling of drops Or the rumbling of… Read more »