THE car drove away, leaving him standing there, and Shivanie’s supervisor friend asked, “Who is that?” “Someone I knew from high school,” she answered, …

SHIVANIE wiped the tears welling up in her eyes, which were caused by the smoke from the large iron fireside she was cooking on. …

MUSIC of the gods, soft and entrancing, played from the flute and travelled on soundless wings across land and sea, sounds only a Nagin …

I LOOKED out my window, across the green, lush lawn and the border of flowering shrubs to the woods beyond, dark and mysterious. Tonight, …

THE morning was biting cold, and dawn was still some hours away, as the northeastern wind blew in from the sea. The fishermen on …

THE woman, fair with slight oriental looks, stood alone at the top of a hard mud dam. She was not like the locals, a …

CHRIS parked the Range Rover at the side of the main road on the East Coast and stepped out, pulling his cap down low …

Her name is Sajanie. An old woman living her last days in a retirement home. For her, it was unexpected. She had never thought …

The sunset — a collusion of brilliant, rich colours, a backdrop to stately coconut palms and a smooth, flowing, black-water creek in the conversancy …

IN a land on the north-eastern coast of South America, once a lost world, a hidden paradise. But now, the eyes of the world …