“HAPPY new year, happy new year!” the little girl sang happily, running downstairs with her storybook, one of her Christmas gifts. Her mother was …

ANNA stared in awe at the huge Christmas tree in the mall, decorated with gold lights, multi-coloured ornaments, and garlands. At the top of …

A new day dawned, a special day filled with love and a little song in his mind. Jarred looked at himself in the mirror …

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 …