#IdeaStory: Mermaid
You learnt to float, she yells,
ducking under him smoothly.
When she surfaces,
he’s walking on the water.
Away.
You learnt to float, she yells,
ducking under him smoothly.
When she surfaces,
he’s walking on the water.
Away.
For some months now, Clubhouse has been my new social media toy. It has also been my solace, my refuge during the soul-shattering COVID-19 second wave. I’ve made friendships of a very different kind from any I’ve had before (even counting the pioneering days of chatrooms, blogs & Twitter). Hearing people’s voices through the dark desolation of a pandemic and having those voices be what carry you into choosing to wake up every day – this cannot be explained to somebody who hasn’t experienced it. This piece was written for a theme set by my steadiest co-host, Tareque Laskar – Better Days.
We’d rather be immortalized as heroes or villains in history than survive the daily mundane. Love makes us fools.
Ask me anything, he says.
She thinks about how to translate that in her head, into the language of her.
Stop trying to heal people hoping that they will love you for it. That is not how healing works.
I realised during the Alphabet Sambar meet yesterday that I wrote this story but never put it up. So here it is for your childhood-scented reading pleasure. Don’t forget to play! ~O~O~O~O~O~O~ The Apple Lion It started with a spelling test. Ma’am had threatened the class with one later in…
Electra: Let’s run together, you and ILike we used to when we were kidsI know we didn’t know each other, growing upBut who says we ever had to grow up?Let’s play catch and hide-and-seek Oedipus: Hold me close, hold me at arm’s lengthBut stay beautiful alwaysA home to come home…