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Therapist: So what brings you here? Drizella: *absentmindedly* Child labour. Therapist: What? Drizella: I am a victim of child labour. Therapist: Would you want to elaborate on that? Drizella: *rolls eyes* So, I am 17, right? Well, the laws say you can’t force a minor to work or whatever. But she does EXACTLY that to …

Bridgefort police were called to the rescue on Wednesday morning when a 17-year-old foreign-exchange high school student was found unconscious by her bedside due to, what appears to be, a drug overdose in the school premises. She was discovered in time by her two roommates who revealed that Tiana, the victim, is a frequent drug …

The night guard smelled of gin and suspicion. He was too drunk to be “guarding” anything, more so at this hour of the night. Cliff stood outside the inn contemplating; a two-day ride to the city had left him weary and now it was too late to look for a better lodging. He passed the …

It was almost a year ago, the city had felt way too small and I had packed in a hurried haze. The gentler sort of reader will understand when I say, the mountains were calling! So I made my way out of the city and there she was- the Queen of Hills- looking down upon …

Among hundreds of clueless faces about how or why or where they are, I realize I have somehow ended up at a place “for people just waiting” (as Dr Seuss puts it). Some try to pass time by sleeping [they will proceed to do so for the entire span of this 9-hour train journey, by the way], some …