Hollowness

When Hamid dropped Lata off at her house at nine that night, he felt hollow. The touch of her soft body was sheared from him like bark from a tree, an...

Saadat Hasan Manto

How resilient was the body, to return to its prior form so quickly! Yet the mind was formed of a less pliable substance. The emptiness in her thoughts...

Galen Beckett

A cat is friendly in a hollow sort of way, like the way a prostitute is friendly.

Jonathan-David Jackson