Her Story

A mother   felt betrayed when a father fell on the landing, developed two little blood clots in his brain and sat like the torso of a fallen tree at the edge of the sofa, looking like a  pearl fisher. His grey eyes saw eternity and nothing but. He smiled sometimes when the cosmic comedy tickledContinue reading “Her Story”

Doing Time…

‘Once upon a time…’  holds promises that didn’t lend themselves to the  birth of Labanya L, born the fifth daughter (in lieu of…)to  a conservative Brahmin mathematician and his nearly illiterate wife.  The Brahmin was handsome. The wife was not.  Labanya L  picked up bits and pieces of both and blossomed into a girl not-quite-notContinue reading “Doing Time…”