Stress management

UNKNOWN TO THEM, all of us on the call desk could tell when the bosses were listening in. Common...

Life time does not return

THE BOY WANTS to say goodbye to his mother, but he wakes after everyone. A vigorous shake from his...

Call me Al

I TAKE MY shoes off at the door, step up and into slippers that are far too small. An...

Black origami birds

IN THE DARKNESS, she counts them off like sheep. Black sheep.And another…And another…And another…Blinded by the night, disorientated by...

The umbrella men

 the umbrella men are blooming inthe season of rain. they grow in the shade like magic mushrooms, unlooked-for and uncultured.they...

Pollen fever

*Contrary to what they believed, I was never allergic to skin. Or sunrays. I wasn’t a cadre.**Arrested by three....

Roll call

Trains came to a halt.Factory chimneys stopped breathing.Schools and hospitals boarded up their doors. But from his desk each morning,the...

The hanged man sings Kathmandu

IA nation cursed by the Sati.– Popular Nepali saying. Neither with a bang, nor with a whimper,But with the cries,...

Burma untold

We’re all Asian now

‘I’M NOT ASIAN and never will be,’ wrote Canadian author Karen Connelly in her Thai memoir, Touch the Dragon...

The lost option

 MONARCHY IN AUSTRALIA is an idea whose time is past. For some time now the question has been how...

Ray Parkin

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