Interim
That was the first time in my life I’d smelled charred meat. I could tell it was different from the kind you’re supposed to eat, and my mother had to hold me as I threw up violently on the side of the street.
2m ago
Of chaand raat and cadet college
Old friend, you will be kept alive in jotted snippets and paper clippings.
10m ago
The Last Few Fries
The place had no soul or spirit left, and it was evident in the colourless walls, the unclean glasses, the empty eyes of the server who left me a menu card.
10m ago
Delirium
The wish itself was pretty mediocre and commonplace, a mundane fantasy to escape the mundane.
11m ago
March 17, 2022
Hephaestus
I was not Hephaestus, Hephaestus was not I.
January 27, 2022
Sunshower
“Ugh, rotten stains… Won’t budge…”
September 9, 2021
No Man Ever Steps in the Same River Twice
He sleeps on his side, on his right side, to be specific. On the nights the excruciating pain on his right shoulder numbs him, he
July 29, 2021
Gone in the Morn
The creatures of the dark feed on fear. And hot sauce.
June 3, 2021
Serein
“What’s the largest sum of money you’ve seen at a time?”
March 25, 2021
Wasteland’s Symphony
All the upsetting news we received, we learned to toss with the stones that skipped seven times across the water before sinking into oblivion.
February 11, 2021
Scotch Tape
A crestfallen soldier at the end of his service, the spine of the book was not vertical. It had contorted and bent at strange angles; if this were a person everyone would look at him with rueful, pitying eyes. Pitying eyes are curious, sneering eyes, prying eyes. Pitying eyes are not kind eyes.
December 3, 2020
Rainwater Tea
Do we measure the leaves first? Or do we pour the water?
November 12, 2020
Finding Webtoon
Webtoon is an app that lets you select from a myriad of web comics for free, unless you want to read an episode early.
September 17, 2020
Old Man’s Beard
I do not miss going to work, but I miss being young – not like the leftover puzzle pieces from several different sets jammed into one, never quite fitting.
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