and doesn't have to
acceptance
Every interaction is a performance
we must always live in servitude to the decisions of our younger selves
consistent shifts in our thinking and actions can lead to the miraculous in all aspects of our daily lives
Narcopolis Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) Nominee for Literary Fiction (2012) and doesn't have toWait now, light me up so we do this right, yes, hold me steady to the lamp, hold it, hold, good, a slow pull to start with, to draw the smoke low into the lungs, yes, oh my Shuklaji Street, in Old Bombay. In Rashid's opium room the air is thick with voices and ghosts: Hindu, Muslim, Christian. A young woman holds a long stemmed pipe over a flame, her hair falling across her eyes. Men sprawl and mutter in the gloom. Here, they say you introduce only