The house was alive with golden light, the kind that softened everything it touched. It poured through the tall windows, casting long,...

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Part I The waves rolled in, gentle and unhurried, before retreating back into the vastness of the sea. The father stood ankle-deep...

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I sighed blissfully. I could get used to this. The silence, the cosiness- the utter lack of distractions. For a second I...

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“Madamji, your breakfast.” Sufi looked up from her book to give Ram a grateful smile but he had already scuttled away. She...

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I woke up to find a chicken staring at me from its lifeless eye. I lay still, trying to figure things out....

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Dinner grew cold on the dining table, as she sat trying to knit a cardigan out of the clump of red wool...

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Authors note: The calendar of ancient Egypt was made up of three seasons of approximately four months each. Their new year (inundation)...

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The mind can sometimes be a strange place. Like a house after a tornado has ravaged its heart, full of shards, splinters...

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