Category: Short Stories
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Eating Humble Chapati
This piece is part of my “Rejected Stories” collection. Click here to learn more. ‘That’s not a chapati,’ Rai said to her mother, rolling her eyes. Now an expert, of course, after thirty days ‘watching’ her best friend in Zambia make them for her family. Rai had the technique down pat—not through practice, but still.…
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Blue
This piece is part of my “Rejected Stories” collection. Click here to learn more. Blue. Deep, bottomless, all-consuming blue—the colour of her eyes. The ocean called her into its cold-warm embrace. Abbey shaded her eyes from the scalding rays. She glanced around, eyes alert. Beads of sweat rolled down her forehead. Her heart galloped to…
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Darkness
This piece is part of my “Rejected Stories” collection. Click here to learn more. “Edward Thompson, you, as well as a few others, have been chosen for the expedition to Mars.” “Come on, man! This is a once in a life time chance! I’d kill to be in your shoes! Think of the fame and…