“When you’re an old woman, you learn a few things along the way; quite a few things when you’ve made a living off people’s misery. No, not like a lawyer or doctor who line their pockets with poor people’s pennies; but like a medium who’s trying her best to shut the door of whatever world that they’ve unwittingly opened. I’ll ...
He seemed reasonable enough with a sunny disposition, blue eyes, blond hair, and pink lips that revealed an enviable set of bone-white teeth. So she took him up on his casual offer when he invited her over for some tea. She was a tad bit bored with his topics of yoga, dentistry, history, and religion. But she didn’t mind; she ...
Reznik woke up gasping, choking, yearning, and finally screaming for air. At the moment he crashed into reality, which was his sweat-soaked bed with the stars throwing their feeble light into his room, he strangely remembered dreaming of butterflies and poppies, and recalled a name that seem seared into his brain — Thanatos. That was a Greek name that rang ...
There’s one thing the living never realize — The dead are not so very far away. I think Sophie realizes this. She asked James once (and I caught the trembling timbre in her voice) — Do you believe in ghosts? James doesn’t believe in that ‘bullcrap’ (his words, not mine). Maybe it’s misplaced masculinity or just denial, I don’t know. ...
Remember the days when men and women across Sri Lanka used to bathe in the sweet-smelling soapy suds of Lux? Those days were lost somewhere in the 80s; Sri Lanka had worse problems to deal with (think war, communist uprisings etc.) than (ahem!) thinking of soaps for men, and soaps for women. So picture testosterone-fueled men with bushy beards, drunk ...
