By: Vaishnavi Kolluru The secret to joyLies in a riverthat flows forward, making you believe its truth, until you reach the end. The secret to joyControls the waves of the oceanYou indulge in a small cold wavegetting your feet wetThe…

By: Ramlal Agarwal The German occupation of France and World War II dissolved old certitudes and unshakable assumptions from the former ages. Some of the most sensitive and creative intellectuals and writers of the age found themselves in a void….

By: Nina Kossman Over and overthe darkness of sands,the stillness of waves.a tangled threadsaved Theseus’ life.Ariadne’s giftbecame Ariadne’s fate:a gift to be abandonedon a leaf-shaped island.Solitude is a gift.Theseus was so generous with gifts.Thank you, Theseus,for sailing away when I…

By: Melissa Aaronberg I wanted to try on the painTo see if grief would constrict me like a corsetOr settle upon me like fine dust.I will borrow the tears like wedding pearlsAnd hover around that dark shoreBut not too deep…

By: Jim Murdoch Sixth Time’s the Charm Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication – Clarence Boothe Luce First loves are forever, true or not— every fool and his frog knows that—but so are seconds and thirds and so-ons. What the book-smart…

By: Ramlal Agarwal Staying On is a very poignant novel about a British couple that decides to stay in India after the British have left India and returned home. It was not a joint decision but one taken by the…

By Karen Lee Stradford Fog I can’t see.No ideawhat I may run into.I’ll take my chances. I have faith.A better view is-waiting for meonthe other side. ### Grass looks greener It looks so perfect.Nothing seems out of place.Your organization is-impeccable….

By: Harrison Abbott He would come in for coffee many mornings a week. I liked him the first time I saw him, and then more and more as he kept returning; he had such a sunny face. At the start…

By: Chandra Shekhar Dubey We are flying, we are flyingabove the ground, skyscrapersabove the river, green valesand forest deep above the pasturesdeep ocean where demoness meetsher lover above the clouds in the sky.We are flying ,we are flyingacross the colonies…

By: Suveeksha Viswanathan Of my days spent in reclusion or so it seems, the confinement that I subjected myself to was of the crazy kind if not the kind that leaves your artifices bare. Raw talent as you may call…