Month: June 2010

Empty Glasses

Everything is ready. The house has been cleaned. The living room has been cleared out, fresh flowers have been arranged. The food has been cooked and placed on the fancy silver ware. The wines have been laid out, the bar…

The Good Wife

  It was supposed to be a bright and cheerful morning. The sun was finally peeping from behind the clouds and there was a warmth that seemed to melt away the winter chill. Cars crunched out of the driveways, wives…

Heirloom

Soft notes of the shehnai managed to penetrate through the scarlet walls. She heard a rustle of silk as she got up to walk towards the window. She saw the fiery orange of marigold petals that were being put into…

What I Don’t Want…

Hope keeps us going, they say. But what they conveniently forget is that hope can sometimes build unrealistically optimistic expectations. They don’t tell you that when these don’t get fulfilled, you feel like you’ve fallen into a void and that…