We never, ever, thought that this is how it would end In fact, we didn't even stop to contemplate the gravity of the situation When you got home, you were tired So, so tired But...

I keep hearing gunshots from downstairs The nine o’clock news bulletin is over and my cousins must be watching a movie The gunshots, blood and death in action movies excite them...

He was called George, just like me, but we were nothing alike I was tiny Puny hands Frail I was like this tall (imagine a dog’s height) And I was, let me just say this blatantly...

I curled myself on the living room couch, staring at our hunchback Sanyo TV, but not really watching it It was a Sunday afternoon, so Sinbad must have been screening I was lost...

ecause you are in form one, you have no clue about saving You are a spendthrift with your pocket money, and you use your bidhaa carelessly Bidhaa is what you call goodies in your...

Sunday is the day all creations go on assembly, and God takes the roll call Man brings out his best garments, bulls dust their hides with their tails, hyenas polish their table...

“I lived in Block C, door 5,” his mother used to tell him every time they walked past that flat “It was given to me by the government back when I worked as a secretary in...

Our shadows dance merrily ahead of us The sun is retiring by the time we leave the hospital, and deMaitha and I are a pitiable pair Each of us dangles a bottle of Fanta on one...

There was a time in history when I was four When I had not fully shed away the innocence of childhood I was without blemish, and if Jesus had come back then, there is a fair...

One can never be said to have lived life, until they have lived through a lurid chapter in their lives Bad things inevitably and irrevocably find us all Be it an estranged wife...

I have been staring at this blank word document for the past half an hour trying in vain to find the words that would attempt to bring out this story the way it happened The way...