Dead End
Somebody said the body had lain by the roadside for three days, someone else said it had been thrown there from a truck that same morning. N......
1 Year Ago
First Milk
“You seriously believe that humans should not be on top of the food chain?” asked my roommate Kesavamurthy, after hearing me debate the poi......
4 Years Ago
Might-ier
I look at myself in the mirror and practice the introduction again. I say my name out loud and, with a pause, add the word mercenary. Uggh,......
4 Years Ago
Surround the world
On the second day of the lockdown, I noticed a cockroach on the toilet floor. I decided to let it be, believing we were the only two living......
4 Years Ago
On Children\'s Day: Two poems
Poem 1: Two times seven Two 7-year olds, playing together in the street while one looks well-fed, the other’s never replete one goes to ......
5 Years Ago
Abandonment, and other maladies
It's past midnight, on a Sunday. I've missed the last train that can take me home for cheap and have taken a cab. The roads are empty, in pa......
7 Years Ago