“That’s my grandson over there. You see the blanket movin’? The one with the most black hair. There, he’s kickin’ again. He’s my first. I know. I know what you’re thinkin’. That Maurice Exum’s a rickety, old man, but I tell you there’s a reason. “You see, me and Delphena, that’s my wife, well, she’s dead now, not around to see this beautiful, black-haired,grand baby. We wasn’t married until I was near fifty, and she was goin’ on forty. I managed the farm, a little spread abouts thirty-seven acres. By the time we got hitched, I was bent and creaky. You can see it in my wedding picture. Me, in my suit, arms and ankles stickin’ out. I looked like a scarecrow in a gale leanin’ into her. “Well, Delphena, she was an angel. She gave me the best year of my life. Yes, sirree, I saidyear. Sin-gu-lar. She got…
“Why am I so ugly?” She used to wail at me. I thought a smile would do the trick. That it would make her…
Gautam- Hello Kanishka, Gautam here, How are you? Kanishka- Hi Gautam, pulling on somehow. What about you? G- Me too, pulling on. Tired off…
I have always thought that I must possess a special mark that is only visible to certain otherworldly entities, sort of like Hester…
Yes, you got it right sir. He is my father – Triloki Nath Chauhan. Isn’t it an impressive name. A very tough man, sir.…
It was a fateful day. The freight container was fully secured, thrice locked. It contained The Last Drop of Oceanzong. World’s largest city Oceanzong…
He was shivering and sweating profusely. If not for this red rope tied to the insides of this, this—platform or whatever—I would have fallen…
Somewhere in Madras Presidency, sometime before the ̐Channar revolt, the twin-conical fabric sat on the coir bed way before the bride entered the room.…
In a particularly small town, on a particularly small street, there lived two small youngsters- their houses leaning towards each other as would young…
