You didn’t understand why it was that he left. You weren’t even sure that you cared. But it was the way in which he departed – so hastily, before you had a chance to really enjoy each others company – that rattled you. There were no words exchanged, no emotions expressed, yet he flew out of that love nest like a little birdie that found its wings,...

Recently, a certain smelly detail wafted into my brain like last night’s leftovers, combined and reheated into a mushy, mysterious cocktail of aromas that wreak of forced creativity wrought from laziness. I tried to push it away using the same fruitless effort one employs when trying to wave a bad smell from the air, only it was laziness that brought about the...