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25Aug
41 comments on “In Which Leia Doesn’t Eat the Ice Cream”

In Which Leia Doesn’t Eat the Ice Cream

Posted by umashankaron August 25, 2019August 30, 2026in Such is Life41 Comments

(Further to Bruno's Story) It seems I have troubled your heart, but it is a tale recount I must. So that next time you see a dog pup scavenging in the bins for crumbs, you don’t wince in disgust. And…

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12Aug
28 comments on “Bruno’s Story”

Bruno’s Story

Posted by umashankaron August 12, 2019August 30, 2026in Such is Life28 Comments

At the end of long nights birds chirped and squawked, squirrels chattered their heads out. The wind rose and fell and the tall trees whispered. Footsteps swelled and footsteps receded. Footsteps stopped and guffawed and came to peep inside our home. Footsteps cackled.

04Aug
31 comments on “Luna’s Story”

Luna’s Story

Posted by umashankaron August 4, 2019August 28, 2026in Such is Life31 Comments

Dear Finn, I don’t even know where to begin. But the skies get creepier, like a hole in the mouth of a snake, with each passing hour. Darkness falls like flakes and sinks into the soul of dogdom. Before long,…

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The Rice Maker

Three Tamarind Trees

End of Dusk

The Monk in the Rain

Sam was Sad

Painter of Omens

A Wobbly-legged Boy

The Ghosts of Jamun Trees

Pebbles You May Like

In Pursuit of Oz

From the Diary of a Covid Positive Fugitive

Unwaiting for Godot

The Gunslinger Followeth

‘Oumuamua

Thus Spake My Father

Hangmen of April

Goodbye, Cynthia Jobin

Haruki Murakami’s Well

The Same Night

The Crusted Slice

Unnameable Things

Reading The Forgotten Waltz

The Siege of the Bog

Fungus on the Filter

She was a Sparrow

A Hole in My Pyjamas

The Slippery Slope

An Owl Reflects

The Last Salute

Zinfandel Moments

Ghostwalker

My son, must I stay?

Fra Lippo Lippi

While I be the Banker

The Poems

This Drop Come Home

Virus and Void

The Forgotten Barbecue

Years in the Ash

These Fingers

Afterwards

Lend Me the Assassin

The Winter of Tonight

A Leaf by the Nightfall

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The Garlic Ballads — Mo Yan

When Breath Becomes Air — Paul Kalanithi

Boats on Land — Janice Pariat

Red Sorghum — Mo Yan

The Casual Vacancy — J. K. Rowling

Aerogrammes — Tania Jame

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