The throbbing shimmy spread through my hips and thighs. I could have sworn my body started to glow as if light were shooting from my fingertips and each strand of hair.

Vaheguru, forgive me, but a woman must choose the wisdom of lies over the dangers of truth.

I do not need to understand words to know he is disappointed I am not a boy. Some things need no translation. And I know, because my body remembers without benefit of words, that men...

She leans over Roop the way Sardarji leaned over Satya the years she cried for children, brushing tears from Roop’s heavy lashes with her lips. She strokes her head as a mother would, says. “Slpee...

Dinner was served on mismatched plates with paper napkins and silverware that looked like it had been stolen from a school cafeteria. The spaghetti was from a box that was still poking out of the...

Happiness was an evasive emotion that could not be fabricated, duplicated, or happened upon. It was something that was only handed out to a select few, but just like his mother, Ethan realized that he...

Non capì, comprese. Perché comprendere era di più, era un abbraccio, era prendere con sé, era farne parte.

Spilling a Secret What its size, will have varying consequences. It’s not possible to predict what will happen if you open the gunnysack, let the cat escape. A liberated feline might purr on your lap,...

…When you’re in the darkness, know that the light will come. We are light and dark, sun and moon, male and female, yin and yang; life is composed of opposites, in a continuing cycle of...

To believe all you have to do is look at the sky.