by Peace Nkeiruka History had it that two brothers traveling in search of greener pasture fought over a fertile land. The younger killed the older and banished his late brother’s surviving family. This older brother’s name was Ube, and the younger was Akidi. Akidi established a settlement on the land […]
Fiction
The Scarlet Sari
by Steve Carr The juvenile macaques played in the remains of what once was the Hotel Lakshmi, where those who were nearly homeless lived, but was now but a shell, most of its interior and windows carried away. It is was now just a ruin, something from the past; a […]
Patrick’s Escape
by Terry Wynne Harry really did have to go the library like he told his wife. It just so happened that the pub was on the way. Why not stop and relax for a while? No harm done. One of Harry’s usher friends was sitting at the bar stool with […]
Can you Help Me Cross the Road?
by Rabindra Soni ” Hey, can you help me to cross the road?” Said a boy panting as if was in very hurry to something. The man was startled to hear such help from the boy because the boys of his age usually are very skilled at stunt nowadays but […]
Summer Storm
by Terry Wynne The back yard furniture lay strewn across the soggy lawn. Sheets of horizontal rain sprouted through the open screen windows. Harry’s pants and shirt were drenched as he slammed each window shut. Overhead, the tempest pressed downward, the storm roiling only a few hundred feet above. Lighting […]
Woman and Her Six Men
by Haritha Chandran Six men and a woman are confined in a single room, unaware of why such a conundrum came about. All men, free and mobile; woman tied to a chair, mouth covered, mute. The Stage is set for the ultimate crescendo of the act. The woman is lean […]
The Feedsack Dress
by Steve Carr “Twere yer grandma’s favorite dress durin’ those years. Hard years, they were. Nothin’ as hard since,” my grand-uncle Jessup said. “In them days, folks livin’ in Cimarron County were about the poorest human bein’s you were likely to find on the face of the planet. It was […]
A Brief Encounter
By Swati Moheet Agrawal It was a chilly January evening and as the moon came up between two deodars, I saw that patches of snow still lay on the roads of Dalhousie. I was enraptured by the sight of windowpanes encrusted with icicles, people huddled up in thick blankets, toasty […]
Coma
by Ranjit Kulkarni “It’s you, again,” I sensed her and said to myself. Well, I have to say, whatever I have to say, only to myself. Because no one else can hear me. Except spirits like you, who hover around for no reason and can’t do anything else, anyway. That’s […]
The Clay Pot
by Steve Carr The wind that swept across the Mongolian steppe carried with it sleet and snow flurries that melted as soon as it hit the grass that carpeted the rolling hills. The camels, horses and cattle that Nachin had crowded in the small corral not far from the ger […]