Stories

I wake on the ward, afloat on ketamine, fentanyl, see sky-blue morphine swifts roost nearby in pleated paper thimbles,  …

I stand before the mirror naked, and I suck in my tummy. The top part of my belly, just below…

Gautam, of course, was prepared for the pandemic before it even hit. He had become increasingly taken with alternative medicine…

Faint purple liquid advanced along the tube towards his mother’s flesh. Her left hand lay stretched out, palm facing upwards,…

Today is a beautiful spring day. Light shimmers on the bark of the gum tree opposite our apartment block and…

I’ll never forget that evening. I was sitting where the late sun falls on our threshing area, hulling broad beans.…

For as long as I can remember, the written word has allowed me to rest, dream, imagine and forget about…

I have only ever called the police once. I snuck into the living room of my childhood home in Belize…

The first time I passed out, the doctor could not believe that it was the church. He said people go…

On a warm August day in 2011, my dad pulled into my driveway on the Lanark Road. I would soon…

A young woman asked a lady in her early fifties, reading the Bhagwad Gita on a bench, how she was.…

ma rubs asafoetida and ginger oil on Dida’s mushroom belly   her voice a needle on the record of an…

Ida’s seven children delivered a theatrical speech and then waited for the ensuing applause. It was a circus performance. Later,…

For Dr S Waite   A glass door separates us. My teacher stands on the other side of my apartment,…

Health  The state of being free from illness or injury.   A person’s mental or physical condition. Through fiction and non-fiction,…