Can I Be Him

Friday, 22nd 2020 10:30 I was getting ready for my meeting as my phone began to ring. It was an unsaved number so I was skeptical about answering it at first, but because it was my work phone and only clients had that number, I was obliged to answer the call. I set through the...

Paralysed

I woke up in the middle of the night at the first thing I did was look at the alarm clock as it read 03:57 on a Tuesday morning. By my calculations, I had exactly four hours and three minutes of sleep if I went back to bed immediately. It was the middle of summer...

Burning Bridges

When I first met you, I couldn’t use my hands to eat. We would go for rib night and you would look at me and laugh at how I tried to eat my ribs with a knife and fork, but eventually gave up and ended up giving you my ribs in exchange for your fries....

1000 Nights

I was getting back into town after spending two days at the farm with my Dad and my little sister. The family was due to move to France in two days so my Dad wanted to show me the ropes of how things are done at the farm so I take over whilst he’s gone....

Life Inside My Head

I just couldn’t stop thinking about her. Not in the clichés way of ‘what is she doing, where is she and who is she with?’ No! I just couldn’t stop thinking about her and what she’s thinking about. If she’s thinking about this as much as I’ve been thinking about it. I set on my...

Waiting Game

The evening traffic didn't use to be this worrisome or at the very least, this heavy. On most days, there would be a free flow of cars on the freeway and even on days when there were too many cars on the road, the traffic was still bearable, and one could still tolerate it. However,...

Mutual Feelings

09 March I was never good at expressing my feelings or admitting to someone when I had a problem. Usually, when I found myself feeling six feet under, I'd remove myself from whatever equation i'm presented in and completely shut down. That Friday morning, there was a cool breeze in the air. It rattled my...

11/01/2018

I woke up that morning with the slightest of headaches hitting the cure nerve of my right temple. At first, I thought it was God punishing me for not praying last night, but then I remembered I forgot to take my pills the previous night. In the past few days, taking my meds has been...

Bottom Bunk

I didn't sleep much that night. It wasn't the dogs in the neighborhood that kept me up or even the loud sirens of what I later learnt were actually coming from the Ambulance. None of those loud, treacherous and disturbing noises kept me up. We lived in the same neighbourhood for well over seven years...

Lottery

The burning sun hit my bedroom window and reflected right off my face as though I was standing right in the middle of the Sahara Desert. The sun came down so hard, I found myself whipping off sweat from my face as I slowly began to regain consciousness and familiarity of where I was. Its...