The policeman sitting behind the desk in the St Julien police station looks too young to have graduated high school. His senior co-workers, clustered in…
My upper thighs were aching. We were over an hour in riding on camels, and after smacking my chapped lips, it was clear I was…
“You are not drunk!” It’s two in the morning and I’m shouting at a mountain – I’m definitely drunk. A weekend trip that replaced Tokyo’s…
My housemates buy overpriced drinks and sit down at the window seats inside the Starbucks across from us, camera phones at the ready. I nervously…
2020: global travel bans, entire fleets of commercial airlines grounded, borders shut, entire cities in lockdown worldwide. Not exactly a great year to be planning…
“Can we please ask a local for dinner recommendations for once?” All through our three-week family holiday in Sri Lanka, I’ve been insisting to my…
It was a great day to be chasing sea turtles. My wetsuit was tight around the shoulders, zipper stuck mid-back. Father was already sitting at…
I have no other choice. Since the war ended, my life has been miserable. The communists have confiscated our house, our money, our belongings, everything….
There is a kind of sexual urgency in the air since human touch became a scarcity. The prospect of a complete lockdown will see single…
Before the Coronavirus pandemic came along and fucked up everyone’s lives, I was living a pretty normal one. I had a full-time job that took…
Last night, we heard screaming. Tucked away in our apartment during quarantine, we wondered what people were doing outside clapping and yelling. Upon looking out…
I read an article once, by a man whose name I cannot remember, which attributed the differences between occidental and oriental cultures to the incidence…
