Short Stories

"Good morning, my love. I hope your sleep was sweet. This morning, there was a dried white droplet at the corner of your mouth, spread across your cheek like lace..."

"When I was a child, I collected coins. My collection was so vast that by the age of 15, I had nothing left to add. My father used to say that collecting coins, like life, becomes boring over time, especially when you have everything..."

"Michaela was the best thing that had happened to me since I broke my leg in Year 3, which got me out of PE lessons for three years whenever I pretended to be in pain..."

"Mum was terribly angry when she found me naked on the carpet. I thought she'd calm down when she saw Yuval bent over me, but she didn't..."

"It’s no secret that small towns like Vandana have short lives. Their names lie hidden in the pages of history as if written there by mistake. Even so, disasters find the cracks to the most obscure places and manage to weld their way in. Not in the sense of war—Vandana was too small for wars, and no one had any interest in it. A global pandemic welded the borders..."