Sreesha Divakaran's Blog, page 6
April 24, 2017
Unfinished | #AtoZChallenge
Your words are slurred. Your eyes are bloodshot. All the time. It isn’t just the drinking. The way you think has changed. Your assertiveness has given way to hardness, to an ugly edge laced with superiority and anger. There’s an air… 
April 23, 2017
Things We Lost In The Fire | #AtoZChallenge
I didn’t know the first thing about building a fire, and as I watched you work, the thought crossed my mind – once again – that we may run out of things to talk about. It wasn’t the silence that… 
April 21, 2017
Sedated | #AtoZChallenge
When the numbness takes over, I find myself sitting in room after room with only clocks for company. I never think about it, but I never let myself forget. We died. We are no more. We went up in flames.… 
April 20, 2017
Reminder | #AtoZChallenge
I had been pronouncing my name wrong for so long, I forgot what my mother had named me. It’s a confusing, twisted name that people paused before reading aloud. The kind of name they always asked to repeat. I got… 
April 19, 2017
Quiet Distress | #AtoZChallenge
“I cannot believe I told you that. Any of that. I didn’t mean to, I’m so sorry.” The lights on the dashboard were still hazy around the edges, too sharp in the centre. But I was not as lightheaded now,… 
April 18, 2017
Paradise | #AtoZChallenge
It struck me, with something smaller but comparable to awe, every time I thought about the fact that we grew up in neighbouring towns. Towns that shared a border, and lay on one straight line on a two dimensional map.… 
April 17, 2017
Once Upon a Playground Rainy | #AtoZChallenge
What does it take, I muse, for someone as detached as me to fall in love? The way you always make breakfast, even when I’d tell you to sleep in. The way you stealthily click a photograph on Sunday mornings,… 
April 16, 2017
New Day | #AtoZChallenge
Engulfed. That’s how I felt during those first few days. By the toxic fumes of what was left of us. I’d go to sleep with my breath and unshed tears getting caught in my chest like a tumor. I’d wake… 
April 14, 2017
Make This Go On Forever | #AtoZChallenge
It’s on nights like these. When dinner’s accompanied by laughter and wine. When I’m the one laughing the loudest, and sharing the most number of stories. When they tell me all eyes are on me. When I know all eyes… 
April 13, 2017
Like A Stone | #AtoZChallenge
Often, I can accurately remember which year a particular event occurred, and if my brain’s feeling particularly sharp, even which month. An annoying habit that I can’t help. Or useful, if that’s what you’re going for. It’s easy when every… 
