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- May 8, 2022
The old lady sat in her rocking chair on the patio, an open Bible, its pages ruffled with age, lying on her lap. Her …
Fables of a Wondering Mind
- May 1, 2022
SARAH put down the Anne Rice novel she was reading and looked out the plane’s window. The white, shifting clouds were not much of …
- April 24, 2022
SHE stood on the wharf, a cold night in June, looking out at the dark river, sounds of the crashing waves, like the tempo …
- April 17, 2022
SALIMA got there in no time, a dreadful feeling in her heart, praying over and over in her mind, “Oh Allah, please don’t let …
- April 10, 2022
SINCE that day at the orphanage, Salima couldn’t stop thinking about Rahim and his conflicting emotions of pain, hate and intolerance. There was a …
- April 3, 2022
SALIMA brushed her hair slowly, looking into the mirror but not seeing her reflection there. Her thoughts were filled with Rahim, someone not quite …
- March 27, 2022
“Doctor,” a voice called softly. DR Salima looked up from the patient’s chart she was reading at the young woman lying on the hospital’s …
- March 20, 2022
THE sand was hot under my bare feet as I walked along the foreshore, in ragged baggies and vest, combing the beach for little …
- March 13, 2022
SPRING was in the air, and the lavish preparations had already begun for the Phagwah festival. The songs, the colours, the dances always brought …
- March 6, 2022
NIGHT, its veil of darkness descended silently and from the deep shadows as though wooed by night, came forth all that had stayed hidden …
