Writings

You Must Leave It Behind

Cairo, 1798. The French have arrived, and they are taking everything.

In the shadow of Napoleon's occupation, a city holds its breath. But for some, the weight of their past presses harder than any foreign boot could. Victor, a young thief, moves through a Cairo that mirrors his own fractured past, a place of ancient richness being slowly hollowed out. When an unlikely opportunity arrives, offering to lift his burden and free him from guilt, what should he choose?

This novella is a taut, propulsive story set against the backdrop of colonial plunder, asking questions as old as Egypt itself: who does history belong to? Can greed ever serve a noble cause? And is redemption something that can be seized or only earned.

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I Saw An Old Friend In Burma

The ferry from Rangoon to Port Blair carries soldiers, prisoners, and old friends.

When the newly appointed governor of a remote island prison encounters an old friend who doesn't seem to recognise him, he finds the man has changed beyond all recognition in the twenty years since the war.

Over the course of the three days at sea, the two men circle each other. The governor receives questions he doesn't like and gives answers he's never had to defend before.

By the time land appears on the horizon, the man who boarded the ferry is no more, and in his place stands someone who has only just begun to look at the world through new eyes.

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