“She’s the one”, the quiet admission of the elderly mother and grandmother who was serving as a midwife for this birth was met with silence. Those few words were enough to [...]
Head up, eyes dilated and mind certainly wondering, he scoured the city as he looked through the glass window of the taxi in which he sat. The buildings were tall and very beautiful. Very neat. [...]
I am the strand of black hair amidst white ones. I stand out here, and standing out is never a good thing. So I’ve learnt the art of survival: walking without breathing, retreating myself [...]
Love is you on your death bed; in your final hour, surrounded by flushed crying eyes of helpless loved ones. It’s that moment when your breaths are measured – each one drawing you [...]
There’s a still voice within me. It is pushing my soul, thoughts and heart not to conform to society yet there’s also silence all around me. Yesterday, when the sun slept, it was [...]
It was a beautiful morning, one worthy of shopping; and so I took a walk down Second Street. The first shop I visited was the second heart store. I moved closer to read the labels of the hearts [...]
‘So I don’t know if I should start asking you out,’ he said, holding my soft hands with his firm, strong ones, and his eyes, not the wide, bright ones I used to know, they were [...]
December, the 24th, a girl knocked and left a note on the boy’s door then rode back home. Found family and friends face down, her mother breathed no more. Her tears could bear no hope, so she set [...]
