Rules are for breaking

“I just feel like breaking a rule today”
It was hard to resist that smile, and harder to stay in the present when I heard those words from the five-year old in front of me. She didn’t look like her father at all, but his words were just as irresistible in her mouth. As I [...]

Birds, again

As is usual at this time of the year, I’m watching birds build their nests. Two sparrows, building nests in the same tree. Hopping over once in a while to tweet at one another. Showing each other bits of grass and fallen feathers, contemplating them with all the seriousness of people looking over upholstery in an [...]

Body (or, What could be)

Her back hurt from all the contractions. The muscles in her thighs felt like she’d been climbing flight after flight after flight of stairs. Tomorrow, the cramps would begin.
She sat before the screen, refusing to pay attention to the pain. It was easy when she had people to talk to, conversations she had to pay [...]

Choices

The princess looked hard at the choices before her. Unsuitable, Uninteresting and Incorrigible, she’d labelled them - ’twas getting really hard to remember all the fancy names.
She’d been through this routine for three years now, and as she’d been warned, the choices got worse every year. But at least she could do most of it [...]

Dreams

Three little birdies wanted to fly west. They had their reasons, you see. Different ones each, I mean. And they didn’t really know each other, but since they were all planning to fly west, they thought they’d make a pretty formation in the sky. A nice ‘V’, they all agreed, could be made with three [...]

The Awesome Foursome and the Frog Prince

“Dips, what is this?!”

“What is what?” 
“How did the Frog Prince get in here?!”
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It seemed as if it were meant to be.

Projects were allotted in the first week of term, and Spectacle-Chewer always wanted group work. And since no one knew anyone (or so he thought), he allotted groups too. So there it was, a [...]

Metaphysical Ruminations*

There was once a stone. A stone, like many other stones, like any other stone. Like all stones, she decided what stone she’d like to be. Yes, stones do. Some on purpose, some because they’re too lazy to move their asses from where they fell, and some because they’re scared to.
So, she decided what [...]