Brown arteries stem
against a still gray backdrop
and I wait, wide-eyed.
Brown arteries stem
against a still gray backdrop
and I wait, wide-eyed.
Sonia Chintha is an Indian American writer who lives in the Washington DC area. She blogs, writes poetry, and fiction. She is also an English teacher who believes that our experiences teach us more than any test. She is the founder and co-editor of Good Little Girls.





My first memory of scarves is of a dupatta that you wear around your neck over a salvar or chudidar. I loved wearing them and
I should’ve spoken, it was the time to do it, but in the moment, I couldn’t, didn’t feel I had the right to Who am

I made of us boulders
forged in relentless gusts
that threatened silence,
destruction.

Each sunny day, I jog downstairs with my lunch bag and sit at the same park bench in the courtyard. The one drenched in sunlight;