Mosques and temples jostle with shops selling everything from massage oils to cut-price CDs. When the narrow streets get too much, follow the sounds of a cricket match onto Galle ...
It was not meant to happen like this. Check out is in less than two hours.
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The Disappearance of a She-Vampire in Pattaya.
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A trip to India, and a change in mindset about how business gets done…
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The outfit of the day is … human skin.
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She is fragile, as fragile as glass…
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The biggest change and the worst.
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Is history destiny that a fortune-teller can predict, or is it the spin of a gameshow’s wheel?
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Trees, by Anthony Doerr, was first published in Litro Magazine: Jul 2012.
He stops at the supply room window, a floor-to-ceiling sheet of glass, double-paned, six feet wide. The best ...
I’d gone to bed in Hong Kong. A night full of regrets. And a do-not-disturb sign left swinging grimly from my hotel room door-knob like the newly hoisted frame of ...
First dates can be the start of something or the beginning and the end of it: we want them to go well, to give a good first impression of ourselves ...
Her father seemed not to notice his daughter’s transformation from eager girl, content to sit in the garden, braiding rose trees into garlands, to sighing young woman, absently playing board ...
“A date? A real date? Tomorrow? With you? Oh, God, yes. Brilliant, Larry, simply brilliant. Thank you. Thank you, ever so much. Although…”
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Their main point of connect is in bed, the sheer animal pleasure of it, the anticipation and aftermath reverberating through his otherwise arid life.
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…if I were to get into a relationship, then I would be looking for perfection. However, one thing still bugs me. Why did she take the bathroom mirror? It’s the ...
Now I’ve been thinking about this recently, how I’ve always thought it was a funny story, an anecdote of a drunk girl’s cynicism, or proof that women could enjoy anonymous, ...
We chatted, words flowed. She told me about her art studio, about backpacking around South America, about the notebook in which she collected the stickers you get on bananas. I felt ...
If ever there was a year that needed careful Reflection 2016 is certainly that year…..
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It could reasonably be said that I’ve always been a champion of refinement. I pause before the final chapter to indulge a thought: is my wife’s novel the story of ...
We were just outside the building and I was looking for her. She was wearing a green saree the color of parrots. But there was no sign of Mother.
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