There was so much catching up to do with friends and I had planned to sit with one of them, but our teacher put me in the last row with her. The last row away from the windows. She was a smart girl and one of the few I liked in class, but there was one awkward knot between us. Have you ever tried...
The postman came every afternoon without fail, unless it was a Sunday or a public holiday. By the time he reached our block it was noon, sometimes he came just minutes before papa walked up the stairs at lunchtime. The postman rode up to the first ramp of the stairs at ground level and rang his c...
she pleaded with me every time. She liked it too much but had been starved of it after separating from her husband. “It’s complicated,” I would say, and had told her the real reason too. We were only friends with benefits, not committed lovers. Marriage was not a possibility between us. “Fuck off...
It was a glorious morning, blue above and green below, seen from the front window of his cozy house. It was a day to be out and about, but the doctor was laid up with a cold, the result of bidding winter adieu too soon and pacing about in the garden without a hat at night. Just what he advised al...
So Much To Cram As soon as the tiffin break got over, the six lined up at the library door, and the head librarian allowed them in with a hundred reservations writ large on her face. She asked them what books they needed, but getting only blank looks in reply she told them where the reference boo...