The floor was cold, a thousand little needles were piercing through her skin, momentarily still suffering the sunshine rays that gave her flaming red back a few days prior. Amy turned a watery gaze to her hands, relieved they at least had left their burning colour behind for a warm honey shade. “If I have to die, let me be as fair as the moon.” The makeup was still intact and the mascara vaguely blurred around the corner of her eyes, which was a crucial bit to make her face decadent yet romantic rather than neglected and scrubby. Long hair fell soft on her shoulders, and a self-satisfied smirk shyly made an appearance on her lips. She knew she looked exactly how she was supposed to. Men had been staring at her figure throughout the whole evening. Those drunken pigs that she was relentless in despising but whose gazes brought…
‘Please, don’t fire me,’ said Colm. The manager looked him in the face and kept very still. ‘The decision has been made.’ ‘But I…
Mr Amos’s playing was gentle now, though I knew he was only working up to the point where he’d be banging on the keys…
Sarah and I sat outside the diner, milkshakes in hand— strawberry for her, chocolate for me. I never understood why people my age drank…
I slide the glass beaker with the back of my gloved hand. It flies over the edge of the bench. I’ve rehearsed my pitiful…
After my retirement I thought I should participate more in household chores and help my wife out. Beyond the routine task that I was…
“Come September” was the favourite number of Gopalan. He was not a connoisseur of music but the month of September was significant to him.…
Kasi left his office for the bus stand to catch a bus to his native place. His father insisted that Kasi has to be…
Satish was now in his thirties and introspecting about his life. In college he had an overflowing confidence with a ‘could not care less…