23 March, 2025: An Attempt at Jogging
set in Bandung, Indonesia “Follow me. Keep up. This isn’t a walking contest. You can’t run anymore?” “Bisa,” Father says,…
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9 January, 2025: Liberation
Set in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India If the smog were not covering the sky, perhaps the scenes around the ghat…
(19) 8th January, 2025
Set in Krakow, Poland 8 January 2025 Father looks at his mother, lying on the bed they gave her in…
29 December, 2024: The Nightmare
Set in Fairbanks, Alaska, The United States of America The weather is cold it’s like Mother is in the middle…
24 December, 2024: The Christmas Tree is Tilting A Bit
Set in Hamburg, Germany ,Don’t break the Christmas tree,” Father shouts from the bottom of the ladder to his big…
28 September, 2024: My Husband’s Rest
It is five in the morning. The only light comes from outside of the windows. Their apartment is right by…
(17) 27th September, 2024 set in Malabo, Equitorial Guinea
8 September 1984 The hospital was a giant white compound resembling a prison right in the centre of Malabo city….
9 September, 2024: He Was Going to Fail this Patient
Tomorrow was going to be the day that Father would retire, and yet he was meeting a patient today that…
28 August, 2024: When His Only Friend at Work Found Out
set in Libreville, Gabon It wasn’t that Father was planning to announce that he was ready to retire so quickly….
16 August, 2024: A Conversation, Part Three
Set in Batam, Riau Islands, Indonesia “Sayang, saya harus berbicara sama kamu.” “Baik. But don’t say, ‘I must speak with…
The Sixteenth Vision (5 August, 2024)
Set in Lalibela, Ethiopia You are a queen. This is what Mother hears, as she is encompassed in spectral light….
22 July, 2024 et in Heraklion, Crete, Greece
Father is at the hospital and a mother is dying – not Father’s mother but a mother who is a…
(16): 16th July, 2024 set between Pnohm Penh, Cambodia and Preah Dak, Cambodia
16 July, 2024 What was it that Father had done, and was it really a mistake? Looking back on his…
5 July, 2024: The Message in the Rain
set in Salalah, Oman The monsoon had started a month ago, but it was because Mother was out walking with…
The Fifteenth Vision (20th July, 2024)
This is a story I thought I was telling for a thousand years. Or so I thought. Or maybe I…
(15): 17th, May, 2024 set in Mamoudzou, Mayotte, France
« It has come to this time, and you know it. » « She is still young. She looks this way,…
1 May, 2024: The First of May set in Tartu, Estonia
It is Kevadpüha. It is the first day of spring, a day of great festivity and warmth for the Estonian…
The Fourteenth Vision (12 April, 2024)
Set in Manalkadu, Sri Lanka Mother is in the middle of a circle. It is a circle drawn by a…
2 April, 2024: L’anniversaire le plus joyeux set in Conakry, Guinea
«Bonsoir, ma tante. » «Bonsoir, Tina » Mother said to her niece, all the while thinking, What are you doing…
(14): 12th March, 2024 set in São Tomé, São Tomé and Principe
Eu não posso acreditar que a minha mae tivesse estado comigo para dois meses, Father reflects to himself as he chews…
The Thirteenth Vision (21 February, 2024)
This is the real world. This is the world that Mother knows. She is inside her home. It is a…
12 February, 2024: An Interrupted Salah
Mother is bending down on her prayer mat on the floor of her kitchen, listening to the call to prayer…
20 January 2024: A Good Man’s Birthday
There’s a house at the bottom of the cliffs. It’s in one of the settlements down under the hills of…
19 December, 2023: The Christmas Market set in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India
Father looks at the Christmas bulbs in a market in Shimla’s centre, the Ridge. There is Christ Church and there…
3 December, 2023: The Word of God set in Bamenda, Cameroon
It is a beautiful day with not a single cloud blocking the blueness of the sky or the greenness of…
The Twelfth Vision (3 December, 2023) set in Kharkhorin, Mongolia
The rocks, the hills, and the endless plains around. Snow crusts against the crags from here until the end of…
(12): 19 November, 2023 set in Meymand, Iran
It is snowing, far too cold for anyone to go outside. Therefore, the entire family, from Father’s brothers and their…
7 November, 2023: Not Friend, Just Patient
Set in Guangzhou, The People’s Republic of China As Father was coming into the room, the patient sat up to…
15 October, 2023: A Bullet Could Have Killed Her
Mother sees her ever so precious niece in the hospital bed struggling to open her eyes and she wants to…
29 August, 2023: When the Pastor was Kidnapped set in Bouar, the Central African Republic
When Mother found out that the pastor had been taken by armed militia, she was at her friend Marie’s house,…
The Tenth Vision (12 August, 2023)
Set in Sandoy, Faroe Islands, the Kingdom of Denmark This is not the sea. This is not the ocean. This…
(10): 29th July, 2023 set in Teseney, Eritrea
20 May 1939 The first time Faven fell sick, it was in the spring of the late 1930s, when she…
14 July, 2023: Meeting on the Hills
This time Father chose to gather the doctors not at his home in his swanky upscale apartment in San Benito,…