Ashim Shanker, Don't Forget to Breathe

"A bracing wind swirls about the boy and alights gently upon his shoulder to gape frightfully at droplets of fate joined infirmly to a sweep of atmospheric and lunar forces far beyond their capabilities to resist. He takes a long, deep breath of air—cleansed through its migration—and he closes his eyes.Scattered waves roll back in to the sea."

Ashim Shanker, Don't Forget to Breathe

"Light and Dark: each was unaware that the other existed."

Ashim Shanker, Don't Forget to Breathe

"At one moment, his eyes sparkled in the light and in the next they were enshrouded in shadow. What connected those bands of light and dark? Could they indeed have been distinct entities?"

Ashim Shanker, Don't Forget to Breathe

"All high mathematics serves to do is to beget higher mathematics."

Ashim Shanker, Don't Forget to Breathe