…and beyond
CHAPTER 2 Kira checked off the last school visit on her list, and that would finally conclude the 3 month long outreach initiative. It was momentous and required a celebration. The local school teachers took the team out for drinks and thanked her for imbuing hope into the young ones as well as themselves. The [...]
Why me? 'I remember standing there, watching her just 2 feet away. I tried talking but i was afraid. The lump in my throat grew each time I tried to say something. In my mind I was screaming for her to move back. I wanted to remind her that we were friends, that tomorrow it [...]
'The elders have always claimed the we aren't alone in the universe; that there was once a time when all mankind stood together and voyaged to distant planets, worlds beyond their wildest imagination, formed colonies and sustained life. Ever since we were toddlers we were told great stories of 'the great exodus', legends of how [...]
Over the next couple of weeks, serially alternating with The Fifth Horseman, I present to you a story of a dystopian universe now solely under the rule of mankind. One 'left for dead' planet still struggles to keep the sons and daughters of its former failed terraformers alive. 5 individuals are taken on an unprecedented [...]
Your story 2 years ago around the same time, things seemed a lot different. It was the first day of orientation and new house officers had finally gotten their long awaited job postings in respective hospitals all over the country under provisional licence contracts. They had to leave their homes, their parents, their spouses, their [...]
The Stage is Set It was high noon under the sun of the blazing equinox. One would think people would rather stay indoors as long as they could. But on the contrary, it was a horrid mess in the waiting room of Puchong Hospital Emergency Unit. The triage doctors were swamped attending to the cries [...]
