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,…
set in Bandung, Indonesia “Follow me. Keep up. This isn’t a walking contest. You can’t run anymore?” “Bisa,” Father says,…
Set in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India If the smog were not covering the sky, perhaps the scenes around the ghat…
Set in Krakow, Poland 8 January 2025 Father looks at his mother, lying on the bed they gave her in…
Set in Fairbanks, Alaska, The United States of America The weather is cold it’s like Mother is in the middle…
Set in Hamburg, Germany ,Don’t break the Christmas tree,” Father shouts from the bottom of the ladder to his big…
It is five in the morning. The only light comes from outside of the windows. Their apartment is right by…
8 September 1984 The hospital was a giant white compound resembling a prison right in the centre of Malabo city….
Tomorrow was going to be the day that Father would retire, and yet he was meeting a patient today that…
set in Libreville, Gabon It wasn’t that Father was planning to announce that he was ready to retire so quickly….
Set in Batam, Riau Islands, Indonesia “Sayang, saya harus berbicara sama kamu.” “Baik. But don’t say, ‘I must speak with…
Set in Lalibela, Ethiopia You are a queen. This is what Mother hears, as she is encompassed in spectral light….
Father is at the hospital and a mother is dying – not Father’s mother but a mother who is a…
16 July, 2024 What was it that Father had done, and was it really a mistake? Looking back on his…
set in Salalah, Oman The monsoon had started a month ago, but it was because Mother was out walking with…
This is a story I thought I was telling for a thousand years. Or so I thought. Or maybe I…
« It has come to this time, and you know it. » « She is still young. She looks this way,…
It is Kevadpüha. It is the first day of spring, a day of great festivity and warmth for the Estonian…
Set in Manalkadu, Sri Lanka Mother is in the middle of a circle. It is a circle drawn by a…
«Bonsoir, ma tante. » «Bonsoir, Tina » Mother said to her niece, all the while thinking, What are you doing…
Eu não posso acreditar que a minha mae tivesse estado comigo para dois meses, Father reflects to himself as he chews…
This is the real world. This is the world that Mother knows. She is inside her home. It is a…
Mother is bending down on her prayer mat on the floor of her kitchen, listening to the call to prayer…
There’s a house at the bottom of the cliffs. It’s in one of the settlements down under the hills of…
Father looks at the Christmas bulbs in a market in Shimla’s centre, the Ridge. There is Christ Church and there…
It is a beautiful day with not a single cloud blocking the blueness of the sky or the greenness of…
The rocks, the hills, and the endless plains around. Snow crusts against the crags from here until the end of…
It is snowing, far too cold for anyone to go outside. Therefore, the entire family, from Father’s brothers and their…
Set in Guangzhou, The People’s Republic of China As Father was coming into the room, the patient sat up to…
Mother sees her ever so precious niece in the hospital bed struggling to open her eyes and she wants to…
When Mother found out that the pastor had been taken by armed militia, she was at her friend Marie’s house,…
Set in Sandoy, Faroe Islands, the Kingdom of Denmark This is not the sea. This is not the ocean. This…
20 May 1939 The first time Faven fell sick, it was in the spring of the late 1930s, when she…
This time Father chose to gather the doctors not at his home in his swanky upscale apartment in San Benito,…