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Category: Fiction

Working title: “Invisible Worlds”

Posted on January 21, 2017December 25, 2018 by Surya

I soak the knife and the long blade in the hot boiling water, I count till 30, slowly, like Baba had told me to do – he said that boiling water can kill germs, and if I forget to count or count wrong, then the children will get infected. Then I count 10 more just…

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The obsession

Posted on September 4, 2009September 5, 2009 by Surya

The silverware glistened in the golden light from the elaborate chandelier that hung from the ceiling. She looked up to admire the sixteenth century painting that was beyond the light. A slow breeze from the sea side, and the waiter rushed to hand her a pashmina, which she really wouldn’t have needed if she hadn’t…

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Tomorrow

Posted on February 20, 2007February 20, 2007 by Surya

She had first seen him at the other end of Father Flanagan’s at Boatquay. Decidedly determined to nurse nothing but a cola in his elegant hands, his eyes shone like dark embers with sharpness and clarity in a room full of slithering slobs. Though dressed casually in dark gray and black, at six foot two…

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Adieu

Posted on June 14, 2005June 2, 2007 by Surya

Today morning, I woke up to the unusually loud cries of Tweety. Tweety is a fellow resident in my apartment building and has her nest just outside my bedroom. Because she reminds me of Tweety in Jamba’s ringtone ad and because I am rather unimaginative when it comes to christening birds, shes called Tweety. Tweety…

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