Tag: depression

• Going to church

  I went to Good News Church because Roshan implored me to. “It’s a global community of like-minded brothers and sisters who emphasise on right doctrine and don’t preach legalism. You’ll fit in there,” he said.  So I made my way, one humid July day, the flames of the forest burning orange in the heart of […]

  Nitin Lalit

  May 20, 2022

  Short Stories

  church, depression, life, prose, racism, short story

• Wasted years

  At the end of the day, thejoints flare-up, and the bodyhurts, the fingers, spindle-shapedand the toes, warm, the gut, a ballof pain. I have a condition Iwon’t name, but I thinkthe weight of wasted yearspressing downincreases its intensity. Weeds andthornbushes; slate and coal;sewers and slushy streets;shattered glass and obsidian.Relationships based onvisions of future togethernessunder bluish […]

  Nitin Lalit

  May 14, 2022

  Poems

  depression, life, poetry, reflection, thoughts

• The great addiction

  I used to buy a pack of Marlboro Reds from a dingy cigarette shop on the street outside my apartment complex. I’d then return, sit on my balcony infused with the neon twilight of dusk, smoke and convulse in the throes of guilt. What am I doing with my life? Does this all end in […]

  Nitin Lalit

  May 12, 2022

  Short Prose

  depression, essay, life, short prose, writing