Nostalgia

Have you chased each other under the arches, playing pakdam pakdaai in memory of the last game you’d played together?
When you did, did you feel how muted it was this time around? Wasn’t the memory louder, brighter, more rowdy?
Did you end the game with a tumble on the ground? But this time around, didn’t you put [...]

My first step to celebrity status

My first death threat. Does this qualify? (No, no, look at the comment!)
It leaves me a little confused, though. He liked the movie, and I thought it was clear that I liked it too. But he still wants to kill me ’slowly and painfully’.
Actually, it might not be me he wants to kill. He wants [...]

Weather

It was the kind of day when the sun is warm and inviting, the shade pleasantly cool.
The kind of place where, as you walk, you get nicely toasted, and then a large shadow looms up - a tree, sometimes, a building at others - nice and cool, but the sunshine on the other side seems [...]

When these people have a headache

do they ask for their head to be cut off? (Thanks for the link, Dimmy!)
I remember an invitation once, to meet an amazing old lady over tea and sherry. I remember a sun that didn’t seem to want to set; oranges and pinks and silver in the sky, gold and pink and green on the [...]

An MRI machine

I want so much to know what it looks like from the inside. The inside of the tube, I mean - the actual inside is probably a lot of wires and chips and stuff.
And why they keep sliding you up and down inside it. Like and elevator, lying down. All the way up, and then [...]

Open Secrets

Can you have a secret that everyone knows?
Is it a secret if everyone knows it but everyone who knows also knows it’s a secret?
Is it a secret if everyone knows but you don’t know everyone knows?
Is it a secret if everyone knows, but they don’t know what they know?
Since I am trying to work up [...]

Teddy Bears

Comfy and warm. Good for bearhugs. Phenomenal for your ego.
You may have put them away in a cupboard, in a trunk that’s a pain to get at now. You may even have given them away, so they’re in a different place now. But when you see them again, you can be sure of the bearhug.