Memory Game

artwork by amina

Sitting down with snakes and ladders. What, no dice?

Very well, then, a memory game!

Chaitra month. Closed doors. Playing literary games.

Win or lose, in the afternoon.

"Mondaron?" Bankim's!

"Bhagalpur? That's easy, volume one Srikkanth!

Sixes and sevens, the storm knocking on the door

"That's some nailpolish, blue! Pretty feet, too!"

All parts dissolve to next scene. Amazing!

A dark Chaitra day. Doors shut in this neighbourhood...

A literary memory game, Art wants them both.

Farhad Ahmed is a freelance writer/ translator.