Non-fiction

Enough already

So over it all - so very over it all

Maa (Mother)

I am sitting in class. Around me there are lots of people. Sir is delivering his lecture. I am not able to comprehend everything he is saying or maybe I don’t actually want to.

Menu, Contacts,Names, Options and Delete

Menu, Contacts,Names, Options and Delete

In the light of things to come

A beginning yet to find an end, maybe there will never be one!

Lessons in micro-management

Lessons in micro-management

Settling In, 30 Aug 12

I don't get being a girl either...

An American speaks of Circumcision

The recent German court ruling and controversy about circumcision has stirred up my thoughts like an intellectual coffee-spoon... and the conclusion I've come to is slightly jolting.

  Bolero

A short magical fairytale about a quiet little boy in a quiet little town, who, one day, discovered music.

  English Test

Please hand your papers to the spotty swot and leave the exam room without waking the teacher. Remember: there are no failures, only winners who didn't pass and will have to do woodwork next term.

  14 Prague Diary

Home again, naturally.

  11: Prague Diary

Before going to Dominoes, Russ wanted to try a Mexican bar that he’d seen.

  12: Prague Diary

Wednesday 18th Day six.

Collectors of things

... to be continued

  10: Prague Diary

The restaurant at the top of the hill is called Usemika, I think it may mean something to do with horses as the sign outside depicted a galloping horse.

  9: Prague Diary

We got back to the hotel I flung off my clothes and lay naked on the bed glowering at myself and noticing every spare inch of flesh, every mark, every scar and every blemish.

One in seven billion: Benson

There are seven billion people in the world. Seven billion! And yet, every working day for the past five years, I've sat opposite Benson.

  8: Prague Diary

Tuesday 17th Day six.

On the plane from Toronto to Vancouver

Mesmerised by modulating maps (damn Nabokov, your mischievous dust lay safely inert in the print of the tenth-hand copy of Transparent Things I picked up at a yard sale in Toronto, until I opened it a

  6: Prague Diary

Monday 16th Day five.

  5: Prague Diary

Sunday 15th Day four.