This is part of an exercise for a writing course I took during the Covid19 lockdown. We were asked to write a story that starts after a three-year long pandemic-induced lockdown, without using adjectives or words with more than two syllables. I don’t know if it was the choking that woke me or the stench.… Continue reading

Everything that you read about The Phantom was a lie! Here’s what really happened. My father almost never spoke a straight sentence his whole life. If he wanted a drink of water, he would come near us and announce, “blessed are those who quench the thirst of a humble traveler.” As we would learn later,… Continue reading