“The sweat lodge is a ritual of purification. It’s like being reborn.”
Category Archive: Fiction Prompts
Paavo hurried, knowing his uncle Hillar was a stickler for punctuality. Uncle Hillar stood beneath the flag, the thermos tucked beneath […]
Darius squinted against the glare of headlights bouncing off the rear-view. The man tapped a heavy flashlight against […]
Saturdays we got up even earlier so as to get the chores done before setting out. If Carl’d […]
Disbelief at first. Then anger, outrage. How could somebody do this? What kind of person? Then fear. What […]
Every weekday I take the 8:08 Churchgate slow train from platform number two in Borivali. At 8:40 I […]
Longwood House, the only residence on the island large enough to accommodate the Imperial Retinue, has proved unsuitable. […]
He stood in the sun listening to the train as it pulled away, its busy huffing inconsequential and […]
You men, he said, meaning us. Bleedin’ pongo inspecting us like a proper sergeant-major, looking at the shine […]
Mama Cole tell me that to shake the old man’s curse I need some bleeding done, and not […]