Senseless emotion fills my mind, but that doesn't matter anymore this moment does. I feel the music move me and I move to the rhythm. It might be someone else’s wedding, but I am letting myself loose tonight. The beads from my long pastel blue...
Kind-hearted. Generous. Religious. God-fearing. Faithful. Helpful. Loving daughter, mother, and friend. Hard-working. Smart. Beautiful. That is how people describe her. Her name is Elica.
Since she was young, her attitude seems to...
Almost , everybody is aware of the situation that presently Syria is undergoing and when we here about ISIS I always feel terrified and at the same time ashamed of how on earth this people can commit such an inhuman act and that to, to a...
Look, I never wanted to do this ice-cream scooping job for our school’s canteen. But the thing is, life doesn’t always offer you beautiful choices, does it? No. I was born a problematic ADHD student, and it should be the greatest gift in my...
It was a hot Saturday afternoon, I had just managed to survive the ordeal at the market and happy that I was on my way to board a bus back home.
I stood under the scorching sun with the heavy polyethylene plastic bag which made no...
My favourite scene from the movie Mask is where Jim claims to have an inner ear problem. I was waiting for that particular scene to come on, in spite of being junk-sick, then I was gonna go out and get some tramadol. After satiatingly watching...
I woke up to find myself lying beside a man. He was naked. Between his hairy chest and thighs was a boxers. My eyes rested on him for a minute and I smiled, a fleeting smile like a flash of light or an electric current leaving behind the trace...
The sisters were one day busy cleaning the house and sweeping around . Marlien as usal started singing while cleaning ,Catherina suggested that they can clean the bedrooms now Catherina went to clean her room , Arsona went to clean Marlien's...
Rain can never wet me, Sun can never make me feel hot and winters can never make me chill. You must be wondering the reason. It’s because I am far away from all my emotions. I never received any love from my mother, father, husband or...
I can't start to imagine the irony of my mom catching me smoking a cigarette when I was in the rehab for a junk problem. ( It was more like a 'stay-in with the family' kind of rehab with actual psychiatrists.) I was having a bad headache that...
The clock struck 12 in the mid night and I woke up because of two things, one a silver light penetrated in my room through the lapses of the curtain,& other was a shadow of an object on my study table....I was very scared and perspiration started...
Human life is woven by happiness and sorrow.But I still can't forget that brutal death of so many innocent people in the train accident...I have recovered from my injuries but the tortured screech if metals,yelling of women and sobbing of...
Its being ten years ago,when I first came to` Mumbai` ,I met a boy named Sidharth Rajput.At that lapse of my life he was everything for me...My friend ,philosopher& guide...The city drenched my life with success,fame &prosperity..
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21 May
Never, had I thought, that my life could change in one mere second. It’s even ridiculous to think back when my nanny had always said that one’s life can flip out of control in just one day. But then I saw you. Across the...
Nowadays , almost everywhere Love is on the air and in earlier days it was the same .Likewise, after graduating in managment course in 2009, Shaun and Alice decided to go for a live in relatioship as to check each other understanding and also...
There were two boys who their parents died in a car crash and so the government sent them to their aunt and her husband. But since his death of cancer, their aunt gone more abusive to them each day goes by..
Charlos, the big...
I have been in my school for quite enough time to know my way around and I can still remember the first day I entered the school library. I can equally recall vividly how I fled with the speed of light when I first saw the flight of staircase,can...
SON: "Daddy, may I ask you a question?"
DAD: "Yeah sure, what is it?"...
Thirty-five minutes ago, I stood in front of a huge crucifix thinking about two years gone by. I had gotten a divorce just before my only child died. It was a horrible situation for me, coupled with the fact that I have been jobless, cashless and...
“Mom..” a boy cried.
“Is it okay if I’m the only one that love you in this world..”
His mother, with a loving smile says” I would be so happy, that I couldn’t stop smiling”...
Sandro looked at a spot near the church where he used to see Sheena everyday, and as usual, she's not there. He's wondering why, for two years, he has not seen her, even her shadows. She used to sit there innocently, waiting for some people who...
Zarine returned from her business travel she reached her appartment and knocked the door waiting for her sister to open , its 15 minutes over yet Marian never opened . Zarine started to scream { Marian...Marian open the door , are you inn ? }...
Julian was perched on the edge of the chair. Bent forward, elbows on his thighs, clammy hands clasped together, he stared at the floor. One knee bounced rhythmically. The elegant chair was barely able to contain his wiry awkwardness. He trembled,...
I watch her peek out from the wings. She reads us, plots. She pulls herself up, paints on a false smile, and strides quickly across to centre stage. Looking upwards and out into her audience, she’s all open arms and ‘look at me!’ We applaud...
Almost everybody of us is blessed with love from not only our parents but also from our loved ones.However, I have come across few days in my life which made me feel that it is not everybody who is blessed with love.
During my...
It was 5: 30 am in the streets of Lagos, Nigeria. The birds were just beginning to get ready to sing to acknowledge the day, the heavens just beginning to wake up thus heralding the wake of a new day, the cold chill of it showing that it would be...
By Steve Kumalonje
He was a Goliath built with blurred and observant eyes, strong and fearsome arms and a rather protruding belly- the one associated with prosperity and profuse peace of mind. And as anticipated from such a giant...