The year 3021

I still remember it as though it happened yesterday. It was the second week after Christmas, the day I lost my newlywed wife, Jane. She liked adventures, I didn’t mind them and so our honeymoon destination was set and we were to visit the East Antarctic plateau, the coldest place on earth. It was a very…

How to Daydream

A hallucinatory stream-of-consciousness styled slice of life that doubles as a how-to…

My Mom is Bringing Home a Lot of Plants Lately

I am panting hard by the time I reach my home. My mom is transferring the inch plant in her new ceramic pot. But already drained by the sweltering heat, I am not able to decipher the variegated sapphire color of the leaves of the inch plant from black.

You Are Only Human

You cry over love lost; love that was never yours to begin with. It was neither here nor there; it never existed — at least…

Looking Back Into The Future

I feel warm and comfortable. A blanket? Am I in a hospital? If yes, then I guess I survived, not sure how to feel about that one. As I open my eyes to a room, lit with sunlight. The ceiling looks decorated and there are moving lights and… numbers flashing on it? Surely, I…

Closer to Cozy

The darkest aspects of human nature and politics suggest there is a limit to…

Of Equal Value

“No brothers?”

“No.” My answer would always bring a frown to their face as if they were displeased with the fact that my mother had given birth to only two daughters. I wonder who they would marry their sons off to if every family had only sons for miles around. Maybe then…

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Dissection of a Timeless Psychotic

The sun is down. Winter gloom has brought the fog factory alive and the night sky has covered up…