THE ATONEMENT_The Leaving_Unexpected Forgiveness_The Human Zoo
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THE ATONEMENT
The once-a-month cookery group would gather in what was called the Club Room of a residential complex in which the Pintos lived. Pinto’s wife Jay always hosted the event and the small group now came together. Jay welcomed the members. She was less than 30 and was good looking. She was dressed in a sari and her hair had been knotted into a bun. Kate was a member and she came dressed also in a sari. Jay told the group “Today we’ll see the new soup which can be heated and served even for a week. This will be demonstrated bywww.onedoor.cc madam Liyan.” Liyan who was of Chinese origin came wearing a flowered lon...
The Leaving
The old man moaned. So low, so feeble came the cry that the others never heard it over the whistling and howling outside the cave.But the boy squatting near the old man had tuned his senses for the slightest breath. He glanced at the mound, unmoving beneath the bear pelts, and drove the stick between his palms into the plank at his feet, spinning it with a speed that made his palms burn. The wolf fur slipped from his shoulders, but he poured all focus into the wisp of smoke curling from the dry grasses tucked into the notch. Within moments, flames twisted and danced, casting a glow on the crag...
Unexpected Forgiveness
She looked out the window, through her vines of plants, at the black specks against the freshly fallen snow. Her husband had taken their boys sledding on the hill down the street. She smiled, thinking about how she was glad that it was them outside and not her. She was always cold and getting soaked through in the snow did not sound like a good time to her. She imagined their rosy cheeks and snow-covered hats and mittens and her husband, getting breathless, dragging the sleds behind him as the energetic little boys ran ahead, shouting for him to hurry up.The oven timer beeped and snapped her b...
The Human Zoo
I’m here. It looks all right, so far… but there’s a kind of smell in the air, like someone has gone crazy with the mint-and-lavender air-freshener. I’m a bit confused, still. Me and my big mouth. Oh! You want to know how it happened. Bear with me while I do one of my Voices skits. I am a stand-up comic, after all… - Real people. - What do you mean? - I’m not about to spend megabucks on safaris, when there’s raw material galore here. - That’s nasty. - Specimens, then. Natives. - Explain. - My idea is to have visitors. They come here and see… and pay. - ...