Writings: Short Stories
Rainy Day
An evening walk in the rain, a cigarette and a coffee at a pan shop, and a sound from across the crossroad that the evening cannot absorb.
Fixing the bike
A day spent at a motorcycle garage, watching a mechanic who listens to engines and a friend who only talks — and working out why their friendship holds.
15 year olds
Arguing with a physics teacher about why light bends upward in a mirage, refusing to back down, and finding out years later what was actually going on.
Physics
The first thing I ever fell in love with — a question about the inverted image on the retina, and a year when Newton's laws explained everything at once.
The Swim
Why pushing your body to exhaustion lets you examine it clinically, and why the same detachment is impossible when it is your ego taking the beating.