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  • What Was Not Taken

    Wraith-like emergence from the shadows to their dispersal, perhaps less than a minute passed. That was time enough for blades and a gun to be thrust faceward, shirts torn, our bodies pushed to the ground like condemned men. The way they streamed off in random directions was more like a rabid band of hounds than… →

  • Fear and Roaming in Mudumalai Tiger Reserve

    Dawn, and the rangers who forbid these forays slumber. Through a screen of bamboo, a sheen of silver water and vapor like smoke from a cauldron simmers. The far bank a vague whiteness. Nothing moves but the rising mist, all living things unstirred and in hiding.  Mudumalai is only two hundred kilometers from Bangalore, but… →

  • Laurenzo

    Laurenzo’s garden was a patch of Mediterranean perfection. The grape vines curled around the pillars, cats dozed on tables and in a wall a cross had been carved by a stonemason who pre-dated King Charles II. In this sun-dappled arcadia I was the only guest. The Albanian flag flapped on a growing breeze on the… →