Chapter One – Toe Rings Unlimited

Srinagar, India 1979 The heat was intense, my sleep fitful. The sounds of the night foreign. The sky black as a widow, deep, dark, fraught. The constellations brilliant as Asscher cut diamonds.  Even the palm fronds, gently wafting in the thick night breeze, offered little relief from damp suffocation of my sleeping bag. The incessant […]