Cutting tomatoes

Prim and preened, she sat on a stool in her uncles' living room while her relatives joked about her future "prospects". Her eyes never left the grandfather clock, standing proudly over the family, passed down for 5 generations, her uncle liked to boast. She smiled languidly when they tried to involve her. She ignored her …

The thought crossed his mind as he glanced at the crowds milling below him. A sheer drop, if that didn't kill the boy, the ensuing clamour definitely would. He could still hear the dying notes of euphoric song as he held the prince above his head, golden sunshine illuminating the two of them. An auspicious …

All that we are will remain in the past

You hit shuffle on your playlist. You hear a familiar tune, but you can't quite place it yet. You haven't heard this song in ages, not since you were 12, or 14, or maybe it was 16. And you're smiling, because it reminds you of when you first heard the song, all those years ago …

Oh, the places you’ll go

In about 9 months (because calling it a year feels far too tedious), a vastly monumental thing will happen. I will graduate, after five long years. I will finally have to face the world of adults, facing the existential dread of looking for a job in an increasingly competitive market. But before I set off …

Catfishing myself

Yay! It's another unnecessary personal journal-y post for everyone to see. Fun. As a millennial, I have a very active social...media life. I live a life of fairy lights, graffiti walls, books with pretty covers and iced coffees, on the internet. But. This life is super curated. Sometimes, I will go to places, or get  …

The bombings

It's another story that I wrote when I was in school. My teacher said that it was good too soooo. Also apparently I used 'Panem' to name my fictitious city. Soooo. I did that a lot when I was a kid, using popular names from books for my stories. This is not affiliated to The …

Aftermath (cause I couldn’t think of a better title *shrugs*)

I was rummaging around in a carton of my old stuff. We shifted houses like four years back, but since I've been so busy with college, I never really had time to go through the cartons with stuff from when I was a kid. Also, I needed my grade 10 Math book. So anyway, I …

Sleep Comes Easy

My eyes are burning as I step up to the gate, show the guard my ticket. Once I'm inside, I can get coffee. Till then, I must carry on, half aware of the world around me. 6AM flights should be banned, in my opinion. Still disgruntled at the fact that I had to get up …

Homeward bound

Another ghost town, the third one he found. He’d passed three towns on his route. He was going to the old valley, in the hope that he would find something. Or that he would be found, in turn. As always, he stopped, compelled to take a look around. What forgotten treasures had the people left …

Bookstores

Continuing a familiar thread, let's talk about bookstores today. More specifically, my favourite bookstore. (While also questioning if the bookstore is obsolete in this world of digital media). I realized, I mention my favourite bookstore quite a lot in my book related posts, so here's the ill kept secret. My favourite bookstore is ...Full Circle, …