Once upon a time… That would’ve been the perfect introduction for a fairy tale. But the story I am about to tell you is far from one....

It was cold. So cold that I could feel the essence of its emptiness seeping into me ever so painfully. I was enveloped by numbing...

“Wake up. Wake up. Wake up!” I didn’t even have to open my eyes to know that this wake-up alarm was the courtesy of the neighbourhood...