‘Order! Order!!’ Barked a wigged vampire. He was the chairman, Mister Reaper. ‘The UK parliament is in session now. All rise for the national anthem.’‘Do we rise too?’ Whispered a little zombie boy in the spectator galleries.‘No.’ Muttered his father. ‘We don’t matter.’They just stared as the members of parliament sang, howled, shrieked, and growled…
‘Don’t do it! Don’t give up hope! After all, a bookseller became the richest person in the world! Keep the faith!’‘Why do you think I’m doing this?’ Murmured the old lady, and firmly pressed the button. The destruction was swift. Not only did the walls and dusty shelves of the old library disintegrate, causing a…
As soon as he buckled the filthy belt he spotted him. Couldn’t remember the name, was just an acquaintance. Not close enough to talk to but close enough to avoid. So he closed his eyes pretending to doze off. Couldn’t help peeking from time to time and at one instance it seemed to him that…
History is not who we are, history is who we were. It’s where we come from. You can topple a few statues, hide them from sight but that is not going to change what already happened. Slavery is not something white folks have done to black folks. Slavery is something that folks with power did…
Yesterday evening we were joking with my wife that we should draw a dotted line on her tummy with the inscription “Open here”. Today, as planned, doctors performed a cesarean section on her. Alas, without the guiding line that we discussed earlier as she vetoed it. Can’t imagine why. And now we have a healthy…
Once upon a time, there was a forest. The forest was there from before and probably will be there long after our tale is finished unless it’s chewed up by land grabbing. But the future doesn’t matter now. Only the present. The time that is upon us. And in this forest, in this time, lived…