My next door neighbour recently asked me when I’d hang my boots, that is, wave goodbye to the game and perhaps consider settling down with a beautiful bird I love, as over the years, he’s met a number of birds coming and going into my house and life. The question struck me deeply, but having […]
Category: Quickfire
Quickfire is a section where we will write short, ruminative stories. Quickfire will have no more than 500 words. Quickfire articles will be posted at least once a week. Quickfire is an escape for long articles about nothing. Quickfire will not waste your time. And finally, Quickfire’s purpose is to elicit profound thought among its readers.
Wantam!
I find the scent of my balls to be exhilarating. After the first swipe-and-sniff, I’m usually hooked, and I find myself instinctively swiping the hairy set again, bringing the fingers to the nostrils, and taking a deep inhalation into the depths of the diaphragm, repeatedly until I’ve had enough. It’s a scent so visceral and […]
An Avocado Tale
The story of the pictured avocado begins with me in the house on a Tuesday evening. I am knackered from working the entire afternoon, but relieved and happy as the work is done. Now if this was another day, I’d probably have to cook or find other eating arrangements. But not this evening because in […]
A dog and a city
I hope in the near future when life has been good to me, preferably before I’m 30 (God are you hearing this?), I will enjoy life the ideal way I’ve always imagined – me, a bit of money to splurge and a dog. I’d get this dog. He would be my partner in crime as […]
Rock Bottom: A Love Triangle
Kate sat at the edge of the front-most pew in an empty church. The same church that her best friend, Jemma, would say her vows later on that day. It was a chilly morning, and the church’s hollowness made it even chillier inside. She clutched on to her jacket and zipped it up to her […]