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Category Archives: Fiction

Singing Opera on a Motorbike

The cracks in this utopia of otherness were beginning to appear, I knew.

Posted byoliver.banksJune 20, 2025June 20, 2025Posted inFiction, Short storiesTags:Alienatin, Displacement, Isolation, Performance, TransitionLeave a comment on Singing Opera on a Motorbike

Smelling of Salt

I lay later in my bed, sweating.

Posted byoliver.banksJune 20, 2025June 20, 2025Posted inFiction, Short storiesTags:Deprivation, Intimacy, Isolation, Playfulness, TransformationLeave a comment on Smelling of Salt

The Albanian Canto

The grid of the possible stretches laconic beneath.

Posted byoliver.banksJune 20, 2025June 20, 2025Posted inFiction, PoetryTags:Memory, Nature, Temporality, Transcendence, Transformation, TravelLeave a comment on The Albanian Canto

A Journey through Khumbu

A lone figure carrying a large backpack crosses an isolated snowy pass

A journey through Khumbu //
A cornucopia of delights //
Pain alloyed with pleasure //
Bask in mountains of might.

Posted byoliver.banksApril 16, 2023June 20, 2025Posted inFiction, PoetryTags:#himalaya, #meditation, #poem, #trek, Everest, KhumbuLeave a comment on A Journey through Khumbu

Flowers, a short story

When I started longingly at the pool, I wished my restlessness could dissolve into it as easily as the chlorine.

Posted byoliver.banksMarch 11, 2023June 20, 2025Posted inFiction, Short storiesTags:Short story1 Comment on Flowers, a short story
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