There was a massive heatwave that summer. I don’t know what I was doing for the bulk of it, but I can tell you that I had my fill of tubs of ice cream, iced teas and long cool showers. It was on one such day, when I was dithering between stepping into the cafe down the street for a dollop or two of some luscious full-fat ice cream or driving down for a tall glass of iced tea at the tea shop around the corner of my house, that I met him.
Arundhati Basu
The heatwave lasted for days. She felt that she had no energy left, and she would lie in the shade, watching the shadows of the dried leaves on the branches move with the sun. She would get up to rinse off the sweat with the water from the hose, but when it came out boiling hot, se stopped that.
The air shimmers as we lay on the tile, pressing our faces into the cooler shadows, the fan drones
There was a massive heatwave that summer. I don’t know what I was doing for the bulk of it, but I can tell you that I had my fill of tubs of ice cream, iced teas and long cool showers. It was on one such day, when I was dithering between stepping into the cafe down the street for a dollop or two of some luscious full-fat ice cream or driving down for a tall glass of iced tea at the tea shop around the corner of my house, that I met him.
The heatwave lasted for days. She felt that she had no energy left, and she would lie in the shade, watching the shadows of the dried leaves on the branches move with the sun. She would get up to rinse off the sweat with the water from the hose, but when it came out boiling hot, se stopped that.