Buzz

life in limbowaiting to restartsounds waiting to be heardsellers projecting wareskids using all methodsto manipulatehelpless parentsbazaar is meant to buzzmarkets are meant to mediatetrade turns the economy wheels darned virus….you may threaten usagain and againand there’s no oneleft to blameyou lose potencywith every re-run you fuel vaccine businesslet the investorskeep you aliveto extricate their profitsor … Continue reading Buzz

Message with the flowers

I’d always rush to her house in times of celebrations or whenever she needed a shoulder to cry on. It kinda feels funny to order a bouquet and accompanying paraphernalia online, to be delivered next door. They will take a day to deliver. But the local florist shut shop during the lockdown. And her house … Continue reading Message with the flowers

In Situ

A television ad shakes us up, “You’ll never find a batch like ours - who never stepped out of the house to study, but did so while watching a father breathe with oxygen support, or a mother slogging invisibly to let the children find a quiet space.” A friend is visiting, but she warns us … Continue reading In Situ

Unfortunate

The sight is scary - bodies found floating in holy rivers. Scarier are the human vultures mud larking on the shore, on a spree to find jewels on dead bodies. They don’t realise the families of the unfortunate dead were too scared of infected bodies, and too poor to afford a proper cremation. (52 words) … Continue reading Unfortunate