They first tasted it in the wind. Not with their tongues, not yet. It came as a sting on cracked lips, a dryness that did not belong to thirst alone, a strange whisper carried through the air that licked their skin and stayed. The men of Alexander the Great’s army had crossed mountains that tore…
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Elephants Beyond The Horizon
It was a smouldering dawn in May over a battlefield strewn with thunder and ruin, 326 years before the birth of Christ on the banks of the river Jhelum, which the Greeks called Hydaspes. The plain was littered with shattered armour and half-buried bodies, the metallic stench of blood heavy in the humid air. In…
Kaali of Malana
In a small stone tribal hut devoid of any hint of natural light, under an abnormally pitch-black night sky, with the moon and the stars hidden behind a veil of a never seen before black cloud, a mother gave birth to an unnaturally dark-skinned curly-haired girlchild. At 8,600 feet above sea level, isolated from the…
Weekend Stories by Trishikh 