As soon as Aly got a job, his attitude towards his parents changed. He thought they were old fashioned and slow. After leaving for a position abroad, he didn’t even return when his mother died. Sid sighed as he thought of that day when he had returned home to find…
Sid sat up with a jolt as he realized he was picturing the homecoming of his son not his grandson! ‘What is wrong with me?’ he thought shaking his head vigorously as he got out of bed. ‘It isn’t as easy as it used to be,’ he screamed out as…
The small room felt so much larger today to the man propped on the bed in front of the lone window. He sensed a change in the wind coming through the flimsy curtains that hung down in tatters behind him. The room had acquired a brightness notwithstanding the peeling paint…
He died the night I thought I was dying. “I can’t breathe,” I whispered, when I heard his languid voice on the other end.“Why? What’s wrong?”Gasping, I described the excruciating pain in my lungs.“How bad is it, darling?” He asked, affecting anxiousness. I groaned in reply.I heard a sigh, laboriously drawn…