Baby

My mother groaned! My father wept.Into the dangerous world I leapt:Helpless, naked, piping loud;Like a fiend hid in a cloud.   Struggling in my fathers hands:Striving against my swaddling bands:Bound and weary I thought bestTo sulk upon my mothers breast.  (William...
Short Story: The Swami Who Loved Me

Short Story: The Swami Who Loved Me

By Will Cottrell Fruito lunged and plunged. Sweat glistened on his quaking buttocks. He thrust and shoved; he dominated and towered: I’m the god, he told himself, impressed by the bamboo bed’s heavy shaking. I’m the god, it’s me… I...