Good Openings #3

Two days before she hung herself in the college dorm room, Dori visited her mother’s grave.  At the graveyard she stood near the tree, watching the headstone from a distance. She stood there for two hours...

Priya pretended to inhale the smoke and blew on her father’s face. At that moment he decided what he will do with her. Now, twenty-five years later, sitting in the 2:15pm train to Pune on a summer day, she looked...

“Can we go out the backway?” That’s how it started. This time the boy knew, from instinct and from habit, his father’s next move. But the first time? The first time it happened, the boy...

“Stuck with an old spouse? Here’s what you do. There are ways you can punish her. No, she will never be able to pin it on you. It’ll be up and up, as they say. What? You don’t know what is up and...

She was in such a state of agitation. She read the letter a hundredth time, her eyes glued to that one paragraph.  “What possessed him to ask me for a thing like that? ” she muttered while reading and re...