Phil is a simple man, or an ordinary guy you could say. When he was born, no one had any idea how to tell him to grow up . His parents, simple and humble fellows they were, had no ideas either on how to tell their son to live. They both were pretty confused with …
I had been sitting on the edge of the coffee table with my back against the wall. The sitting stool had gotten a bit shaky over the years. Maybe it needed a bit of repairing. One of its legs had come out, unscrewed itself a bit from its attachment at the top. Why not throw …
Blackout takes the neighborhood at midnight. All electrical sounds silenced at once. Once the momentary confusion subsides, and the eyes and ears get accustomed to the night, the mind begins to see, feel and sense things that get tangled in the chains of conscious thoughts and superfluous perceptions of reality, obscured by day light. First …
16th Birthday By Nazia Amin She had spent the whole day in making the chocolate cake. It was looking nice and seemed very tasty. Mrs. Jones had decided to arrange a party for the purpose of her daughter’s 16th birthday. So, she made a birthday cake just before the day of birthday and kept …
By Istiaque Chapter 1: The Diligent Postman It was a bright and sunny morning, and the bag I was carrying was not that heavy. In the morning, when I was going through the day’s load, I was quite amazed to find a letter that was actually sent to me. It was uncle Francis, using his …
Winter of 1990 Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh Serenity is almost tangible at twilight. Regardless of the ruckus all throughout the day, it seems that precisely at the points when the sun ascends and descends the horizon, all of life stops a moment to watch the giant orb pass its solitary journey. Life seems to slow down …
She was crouched over the rug rubbing away at a spot of ash flicked carelessly. The slight slouch of her shoulders when she walks appears as if she is offering herself in surrender. Now, as the burdened shoulders worked mechanically and somewhat in defiant determination, she looked more vulnerable. Satisfied with the near-perfect success she …
Glancing through the clouds of Sharjah, the bold mesmerizing city lights were the first glimpse of beauty of UAE that caught my eyes. The lights formed shapes of different structures, defining a different story into my imagination. Not a frequent air traveler, the blinding city lights from above the sky was my first love of …
The gusty wind shakes up my small universe just the way it shakes up the world around. First shower of the year brings with it the joy of looking at the little kids tasting the ecstasy of the rain; the delight of dancing in the muddy puddle, the water cleansing away the filthy soul with …
She rubbed her toe over the stain at the base of the bathtub. Her eyes, of a will of its own, fixed themselves on the odd mark shaped out like a blossom; the colour could be anything with a hint of mucky green. She had rushed to the toilet at the very first wave of …
