Category: Writings

Novel Excerpts

Novel Excerpt from Yalpanam

The gibbons in the jungle awakened. The one-eyed dog beneath the jacaranda tree opened its eye and peered at dew-kissed swifts flying low. By the well behind the house, the…

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Creative Non-Fiction Excerpts

Excerpt: Essay on Misogyny, Misandry


This is an excerpt from an essay on misogyny, misandry and the healing of collective trauma for women. This essay is part of a collection of essays on the general theme of healing trauma. The collection is expected to be published in 2022/2023.

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Short Stories

The Constellation of Buttons

The ants pause on their journey. They see twenty or so lying dead, flattened, disemboweled, juiceless. They have come far from the pink Tin Tower to this oblong bridge that…

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Short Stories

The Code

No one came to eat on Sundays. During the week the world was seated on the plastic chairs and the great pillar fans blew away the flies and the piles…

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Poetry

Anatomies

I’m alive to the anatomy of a starfish-weedtilting in the grass:I can’t say exactly how being alive works,how suddenly all of one’s cells collectto find a friend in the anatomies…

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