Perception is like the lens of a camera…adjustable and can be utilized to view the whole truth.
The road asked for nothing from me except attention. I gave it just enough to stay between the lines and kept the rest for thinking…slow, circular thoughts that didn’t want answers, only room.
The city thinned as I drove, structures loosening into absence. Distance has a way of making things honest. Without witnesses, everything becomes what it is.
Continue reading “Between Streetlights”
I learned how to read a room before I learned how to rest.
In my house, love was quiet, but responsibility was loud. I learned early what a pause meant, what a sigh meant, how the air changed when something was wrong. I learned that being useful made me easier to love. That if I stayed alert, stayed needed, stayed one step ahead, maybe nothing bad would happen.
I was the oldest daughter.
That already decided a lot for me.
Continue reading “Clue”
It was one of those slow, glowing summer nights — the kind where the air is warm but forgiving, and the conversation starts to stretch its legs. I was sitting outside with my girlfriend’s dad and his brother, sipping tequila. Not just one kind, we were passing around a few bottles, comparing notes, the kind of casual ritual that opens up space for real stories to surface.
Continue reading “Traveling Time Through Music”
She lay beside me, her breath steady and quiet in sleep, and I just watched her for a while. In the hush of that moment, her face, so familiar, so beloved, seemed touched by something almost sacred. There were no lines, no marks of age, nothing dramatic to name. But I saw the difference, the softness that had settled in over the years, the quiet maturity that time brings not through change, but through presence.
Continue reading “Her”
There was a time when Ava and Nico felt like punctuation marks in each other’s sentences—commas in long-winded thoughts, exclamation points in good news, question marks in quiet wonderings. Every Friday, without needing to confirm, they met at the train station café: a fading relic of the city’s older days, where ceiling fans hummed softly and the walls smelled faintly of burnt espresso and damp paper.
Continue reading “Shapes in the Fog”
“Near Enough”
It was a bookstore…
of course it was.
Quiet, half-forgotten,
where dust softened the corners
and no one asked questions
louder than a whisper.
You walked in
just as I was turning a page.
I didn’t look up at first.
I knew. Continue reading “Near Enough/Last Kindness Interlude”
The forge was alive with the sounds of hammering and the crackling of the fire. Eamon, a young blacksmith in the village of Eldorath, stood over the anvil, shaping the glowing metal. His father had been the master blacksmith in the village, crafting swords and armor for the knights of the realm, a legend in his own right. When Eamon’s father fell ill, it was clear that the mantle would pass to him.
Continue reading “Weighted Expectations”
She had always prided herself on being in control. As a businesswoman, she had worked tirelessly to build her career, rising through the ranks to a place where she could enjoy the fruits of her labor. She had the house, the car, the vacations, yet somehow none of it felt as fulfilling as it once had.
Continue reading “One Hour at a Time”
Lucy stood at the edge of the cliffs, in a quiet search for her diamonds in the sky, her toes brushing the wind-battered earth, gazing out at the vast horizon. The sky was endless, a darkening blue canvas which stretched into infinity. She had chosen this life for herself—freedom, they called it. No obligations, no roots, no ties. Just open roads, quiet towns, and the solace of solitude.
Continue reading “Fleeting Contradictions”
I sit in the corner,
watching them from the kitchen window,
where the light falls soft,
like an old memory they don’t share.
My parents never hold hands
unless it’s in the gurdwara,
where the priest whispers in a language
I’m still learning to understand.
Continue reading ““What I Learned from Silence””