Em and the Big Hoom

by Jerry Pinto

wanted more words like it. I felt, instinctively, that when you had enough words like hypothesis, you would be able to deal with the world.

Conversations with Em could be like wandering in a town you had never seen before, where every path you took might change course midway and take you with it. You had to keep finding your way back to the main street in order to get anywhere.