Darkness falls into a city A city of silence and the whispers in your head echoes. Your mind plays tricks at you.Time doesn’t exist as you watch frozen stiff. The pale silver moon has transform to a blood crimson red. The sound of chains trailing over peddles break the silence slitting through the throat of [...]
The Promise
1 June 4, 2006. The Lufthansa flight from Newyork landed in Chennai at 2:15 AM, thirty minutes later than the scheduled arrival time. Mohanasundaram was waiting at the arrival terminal with increasing anticipation. He scanned the hundred faces coming out of the airport for his son. After about forty-five minutes, Arun kumar walked out, waving [...]
Heed
Ghosts a whispering, Hinting of an alternate way of living, One they shunned When their life’s table lay unturned The living stay sheltered from the whispers By finer filters, Blocking out these once young ones Who now congregate by fishing ponds Rating 3.00 out of 5
Finding Maynard
I fall asleep, if but only for A split-second: End of cigarette in my right hand. It’s early, I mean early morning, Her ghost; detached from her vehicle and ready She, wanting to take over me Through the semi-transparent white; That of an angelic-spread. Swinging my empty left hand; forward I haul Myself. I jolt [...]
Etta
Earlier chapters: The Rodeo Girl…the dance floor The Apartment Problem Glass Question Token The Little Girl Live Theatre with Etta Etta Has Flown the Coop Face to Face Choosing In Retrospect… Yes Etta and the Card The last three chapters: Part I Etta and the Lie Etta had just moved in with Jeffery when the [...]
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