I can hear my heartbeat. Its severe rhythmic booming means two things – I am morbidly out of shape, and, the silence around me is so complete, it’s one of those rare times I can genuinely listen when my heart...

In a gentle curve down the right of the road of my childhood home is a sectioned off piece of dense forest dropping off onto thick soft sand. The sea begins there, or anywhere, even here where I stand, nearly...

They stood like sentinels in a cage in the kitchen. Various sized bottles holding marriages of sweet, briny, smooth, nutty, fruity, garlic, vegetable, prawn and any other flavour imaginable. Tall and sleek, squat with a dimpled round surface, boxy but...

She is three times her size when we meet. Grown fat and slow with the passage of time. I enter slowly, unsure about this place I called home for nine years, unsure about how she will react to seeing me....

Last night a police van stood at the entrance to my building. The building manager was running around the foyer, in his pyjamas, lobbying some questions. While passing I asked the security guard what was going on, he replied that...

If you get close enough to the shallow ledge of a deep well and look below there is nothing but dark. Nothing but nothing. It is so deep that you do not know if there's water or it's dry. You...