The Tuk-Tuk Driver

As we relive each fragment of the past, we tend to emphasize and imbue it with a larger-than-life meaning, something which rather seemed insignificant at first glance. Even if we let the past flow next to us, a fraction of the populace always attempts to shrug it off. I think that is who I am….

Glazed

Her portraitures came in all shapes and sizes. The glances of one sprightly girl burst forth from one to the other. Assembled in an array of personalities of different times, the collage of fixated happiness seemed to draw in an aura of mysteriousness to it. What has she been doing all these years? Where is…

Winding through the Wildflowers

I know this will take some time before it reaches your door. Before it captures the footprints you put in the soggy mud. It is time already, isn’t it? I am sorry it couldn’t have been much sooner.   Winding through the Wildflowers has been selected for publication in the Spring/Summer 2018 issue of The…

Palaver

The leather-clad soldier looks down upon his brother-in-arms with a blank gaze, as he pushes him down the ditch. As the other man’s senses slowly fade out, it becomes obvious to him that his fate is sealed. But there is no pleading for mercy in this situation, for his still eyes gaze upon the armored…

Base

Have you ever run through the edges of a paper? Even with a consistent line, you seem to lose ground towards the end. There is absolutely nothing. The paper itself falls short in its own vigor. As we head towards a destination, the disillusionment gradually seeps in, even in the times when we are well…