By: Kimberly Potter Kendrick She stood blankly staring out the window Touching the glass pane, chills ran through her body Bleak, she thought Would the rain ever end Would she ever get home The courage she started the process with…
By: David Francis I feel I know a side of you that no one but me knows I see you with the others and I feel lost I think: no, nothing in common exists between us as if an alarm went…
By: Ram Prasath My public exams were upcoming. In a few, crucial weeks I was to give them away. It was not like I had not given it its due time for preparation. Yet, you know, human body is a huge…
By: Kimberly Potter Kendrick Fierce throbbing Lightning strikes Ignore, I try Unbearable moments Tears, I cry not I ask not why Grey overcast skies A grimace hidden behind As a sliver of sun appears Perhaps there is hope A facade….
By: Michelle D’costa Sharanya Manivannan’s latest book is The High Priestess Never Marries (Harpercollins India, 2016), a collection of stories on women, solitude and desire which was shortlisted for the Tata Lit Live! First Book Award (Fiction). She is also the author…
By: Jigar Brahmbhatt She discovered with great delight that one does not love one’s children just because they are one’s children but because of the friendship formed while raising them: Marquez writes in Love in the time of Cholera. I…
By: Ajay Patri Neil Gaiman, in his introduction, is quite clear about a few things regarding this new book of his. One, the way his own works in the past have been influenced by the Norse myths (anyone who has read…
By: Chuck Orloski At West Wing desk, Reince Priebus takes call from Seattle Seahawks defensive lineman, Michael Bennett. Quite occupied and having mistaken Michael’s baptismal-name for Reagan’s Secretary of education, William Bennett, Preibus immediately summons President Trump to answer his phone….
LiteraryYard.com had an interaction with Gonçalo Dias, whose new novel – The Good Dictator has just hit the stands and online ecommerce platform, Amazon.com. The Good Dictator is part of the trilogy called The Birth of An Empire. Excerpts: 1…
By: Gaither Stewart Long before the Nibelungen mythology spread in Teutonic lands, legends and semi-legends abounded in the ancient and isolated lands south of the Alps, legends that say a lot about how these peninsular Italic peoples today think and…