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The summer air was thick with the smell of ripening apples as our old van rumbled down the dusty road. I was twelve, and my cousin Mira and her brother...
Ghost stories from Sri Lanka
The Garden Gate’s Secret
I’ve never told this story to anyone, not even to my wife, because she’d think I’d lost my mind. But fifteen years ago, when I was a sound engineer for...
The Lady By The Well
A few years back when I was around 9 years old or so, I had this cousin who heavily battled with drug abuse. He was a really great guy and...
The Rain That Remembered
In the winter of 2013, my family and two other families decided to escape the city for a weekend retreat to the misty highlands of Kandy, Sri Lanka. We had...
The Caress of Broken Fingers
Five years ago, I was on a research trip in the misty highlands of the Knuckles Mountain Range, cataloguing endemic flora for a university project. My companions were two colleagues:...
The Painted Gate
When I was six, I lived with my grandmother in a house that leaned against the edge of a forest. Our nearest neighbor was a mile down a dirt road,...
The Paper Boat
Twenty years ago, when I was sixteen and sweating through my Ordinary Level exams, I attended an extra class in the dusty town of Mulapet, a place that existed only...
The Pomegranate Tree at the End of the Cinder Path
The house stood at the end of a cinder path, its whitewashed walls gleaming in the afternoon sun. We had built it ourselves, brick by brick, my wife Elena and...
The Last Candle on Viharagala Road
It was a Saturday in the dry season, and the entire island of Serendib was rationing electricity. Every evening from seven to ten, the lights would die, plunging neighborhoods into...
The Last Cherry Blossom
Karan had finally received the news he had been waiting for his entire life: he was approved to work in Japan. The email arrived at 9:47 AM, and by noon,...
The Ferryman’s Toll
The year was 1999, and the air in our small town of Kettlebrook was thick with the scent of pine and damp earth. I was sixteen, preparing for my General...
The Beckoning Light
In 1932, deep in the heart of the Belgian Congo, where the jungle pressed against the village like a living wall, my grandfather, Marcel, was a young man of nineteen....
The Lantern Maker’s Ledger
My name is Arjun, and I am writing this not for pity or for fame, but because I need someone to know what happened in that house on Vihara Lane....
The Bone Tree Harvest
The old tamarind tree stood alone in the middle of the vacant lot, its gnarled branches reaching out like skeletal fingers. We called it the Bone Tree, not because of...
The Bearing Gift
I remember that evening as if it were carved into my bones. The scent of curry leaves and coconut oil drifted from the kitchen, and my fiancée Ruwani and her...
The Condenser’s Glow
The summer I turned eight, my parents rented a small cabin on the edge of Lake Arden, a place where the pines grew so tall they seemed to scrape the...
The Salt Line and the Saffron Man
Maya and I had been looking after her Uncle Perera since his retirement. He was a wiry man of sixty, with a sun-beaten face and eyes that seemed to look...
The House on Blackreed Lane
My cousin, Damian, rented a place far upstate, a run-down farmhouse on Blackreed Lane. He and three of his college buddies were studying agricultural engineering at the state university, and...
The Cinnamon Garden’s Last Keeper
In the heart of the hill country, where the mist clung to the tea bushes like a mourning veil, stood the old cinnamon estate. It had been in our family...
The Cane-Knife’s Lament
On the outskirts of Kandy, where the mist clings to the mountains like old grief, my grandmother, Amma, had a house that smelled of cinnamon and tobacco. She was a...
The Salted Hymn of St. Dymphna
The town of Marrowport clung to the Atlantic like a barnacle, its weathered houses painted in peeling shades of salt-washed blue and grey. The main road, a single ribbon of...
The Lantern Man of Weligama
In the summer of 2017, I turned sixteen. That was the year I learned that the dead don’t always stay dead. My grandmother had passed in March, and by September,...
The Lantern Keeper
It was the summer I turned nine, the summer my family moved to the dusty edge of town where the streetlights gave up and the desert began. Our house sat...
The Seventh Plate
In the autumn of her thirty-second year, Mara returned to her family’s farmhouse for the memorial supper of her great-uncle, a man she had never met but whose presence loomed...
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