Birds without wings The fan hummed a constant stream of air against the white wall. There it was again, that unsettling feeling of strangeness. The sensation of floating in the ether, of observing the body once occupied, filled with a sense of urgency that things were askew, that she was out of place. She […]
27.05.2019 06:09
Free woman As a writer and a woman she is constantly encumbered by the intrusive thoughts of society into her private space of self-expression. She feels shackled by rules that she must follow, and that she follows despite sometimes her strongest resistance. Most times she feels like she is slowly marching toward her death, the […]
24.08.2018 23:01
Jarawa They do not know that this is her; the girl who walks barefooted, who eats with her hands, who climbs trees to sit in the cradle of crooked branches to gaze at the blue sky with her toes pressed against light brown bark. She wishes now to not see people, not to be with […]
25.05.2018 11:29
Dreams of tomato ketchup Both her parents had had noble intentions when they had left their island and their offspring. She was the sole fruit of their union but they had had others; her father had had two after her, her mother had had three before her and four after her, but the latter four […]
12.05.2018 07:06
The house in the sky She sits on top of the red and white checkered polyester bedspread, her bare feet dangling over the edge of the bed. Next to a white square with its careful splatter of embroidered crimson dots is a coloured-in mandala. She has been filling in the empty spaces between the […]
20.04.2018 22:20
The Promise She is bored by this intrusion. “Have a good evening,” she says, as she turns back to her phone. They also turn to leave when the man takes a step back toward her. “Sorry to have bothered you,” he says as his lips pull up and back to show his teeth, “I just […]
12.04.2018 07:13
Pillar You killed me with your words wrapped in love. You cut the grass from beneath my feet, chopped my ankles in one clean stroke. Your voice, relentless, never broke. You took me down in one fell sweep, like an uncanny master of an ancient art. I watched me fall one thousand feet, watched ground […]
07.04.2018 11:21
The path “You don’t understand,” she said, “you don’t understand how important this is.” She looked away. “For the rest, I understand that it is not your priority today. So do as you please when you have time.” She turned and walked back up the path. – She watched her go with a sigh. […]
01.04.2018 02:21
Roots When the daughter saw her father again for the first time, fifteen years had gone by and she was a grown woman almost thirty, loving another woman almost thirty-four. He had given some of the best years of his life to another country where food on television looked mouthwatering in a plastic sort of […]
10.03.2018 20:24
In an empty house near a sugarcane field She felt guilty for hating them. They were nature’s defective machines bringing mechanically into existence defective beings, lost soldiers born into a raging war they were not taught to understand, thrown into a battle they were not trained to fight. What forlorn creatures they were! Their eyes […]