Creative Non-Fiction | Asha Rajan

An inconclusive list of things I’ve learned from having a puppy in the house (again)

Posted on September 12, 2019 8 Comments

Tiles are a godsend. Carpet accidents happen. Despite your best efforts. Money spent on a good carpet cleaner is never a waste. Reading instructions and learning the proper use of your carpet cleaner is time well spent. Puppies (like teens) eat a lot. They will eat pretty much any everything. Puppies have two speeds; full […]

My friend, Bear

Posted on September 5, 2019 1 Comment

When a dog died in an early reader children’s book, we were not okay.

How not to make my father’s sardine achar

Posted on August 6, 2019 2 Comments

How not to make my father’s sardine achar — on forgetting and remembering a death anniversary

Inheritance of fear

Posted on May 1, 2019 21 Comments

Climbing rocks and a parent’s anxiety for YeahWrite #420’s Microprose Challenge.

Love is a string of cheese

Posted on April 3, 2019 6 Comments

‘Who says a heart must be rent
At an emotional whirlwind’s whim?’ Poetry this week for the YeahWrite #416 NonFiction grid.

Ripples

Posted on March 28, 2019

Ripples from the Christchurch terror attacks are still spreading. YeahWrite Nonfiction #415

Silky Sidney

Posted on March 7, 2019 2 Comments

She pinched off a piece of the tiny banana between the tips of her fingers and thumb. Sun-ripened and sugary-sweet, it was harvested earlier that morning from one of the many banana plants in her sprawling, verdant, over-planted garden. She mashed it meticulously, breaking up large chunks so there would be no choking hazard. Then […]

The queen’s entourage

Posted on February 21, 2019

“Rani!” The call goes up from a young woman behind the counter.

One by one other staff members take up the refrain till it reverberates through the cavernous interior of the pet shop, an echo inside a cave, the opening strains of The Circle of Life