I became a stranger; unknown yet familiar. It had been so long, and even though I still knew my way around places and people, it didn’t feel like I knew this place at all. People had changed. I had changed. The air had changed. No more was I stuck with hearing only the sound of […]
Toks buzzes you about the new group. ‘Mommy jst joind Whatsapp.’ Sigh. There’s a million reasons why you sigh, chief of which is your brother’s incomprehensible mode of writing. You stow the itch to nag him about it. ‘Tell her I’m not on Whatsapp.’ ‘But I alrdy told her I chat wt u all d […]
Aisha crouched, quietly measuring the weight of each plate of beans. She would lift one plate, tilt it left and right, place it beside her hijab-covered ears, as if expecting the plate to sing. She would lift it up and put it down. Lift it up again, look beneath it, then put it down, only […]
She stopped at the door for a moment, then shook off her raging nerves and pushed it open. Sitting at a corner of the empty restaurant was Jean, looking lovely and a tad lost. She wondered why her sister always looked like she had bad news to share, the pretty girl that she was. Maybe […]