Thirty one years after visiting Pelourinho in the city of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, we finally got a poster commemorating a concert by the band Olodum framed. I am sharing this story on the anniversary of their concerts – which included a night I will never forget for all the wrong reasons! I could feel himContinue reading “Pelourinho”
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The Zoo
“Happy birthday to you, you were born in the Zoo, with the monkeys and the donkeys and the big kangaroo!” sang my brother Michael and his friend Tom, running into the kitchen. I sat on a stair. Mummy said I was born in a hospital. But a Zoo sounded much more exciting. “Hello Katy,” saidContinue reading “The Zoo”
The Look
You are looking me straight in the eye, but your gaze is unreadable. My stomach lurches and I feel my head getting light. I reach for a chair to keep my balance, but there is none there, so I stumble slightly. You start towards me and now your face is closer, I can see thereContinue reading “The Look”
Time to just be me
Dammit. There was the usual queue for the ladies. All three cubicles were occupied and there were at least four women waiting, holding some sort of a line amidst the gaggle of other females vying for mirror space to apply lipstick, touch up their hair, or just gossip or giggle over their mobile screens. AsContinue reading “Time to just be me”
The boy in the baseball cap
It was just 7am but already there was a touch of warmth in the early summer sunshine. Evelyn strode out purposefully, as she did at this time every morning, her terrier Tess trotting alongside and stopping occasionally for a snuffle in the hedgerow enclosing the park. Now that she was retired, she could walk TessContinue reading “The boy in the baseball cap”
A ferry big adventure
“We have to go on the ferry,” Mum said, as she put sticky tape on the present she was wrapping in horrible pink paper with silly booties all over it. Now this made Sunday’s trip sounded more promising. “A real ferry?” I asked suspiciously. “Of course it’s a real ferry,” Mum laughed, attaching a bigContinue reading “A ferry big adventure”
Entwined
Dimitri was bathing Dima when Karina got home, she could hear the splashing through the open door further down the hallway. She stamped the snow from her boots and shook out her coat before hanging it on a peg. “Hello,” she called. “Mummy’s home,” Dima’s three-year-old voice sang back. “Nearly done,” shouted Dimitri. Their daughterContinue reading “Entwined”
A mother’s love
Hearing a weak cry, Hilary got up from the corner where she had been reading beneath a dim lamp and clutched the transparent hand, its skin traversed by blue veins, pumping with the persistence of a heart that refused to give in. With one hand she caressed Ellen’s porcelain cheekbone, brushing the white hair offContinue reading “A mother’s love”
Elsie hits the headlines
“With all this fuss you‘d think I was the first person ever to get electricity, not the last!” The young journalist was scribbling furiously, not wanting to miss any of Elsie’s wonderful quotes. It was quite some story after all – not the gripping street riots and political shenanigans that kept some reporters busy –Continue reading “Elsie hits the headlines”
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