Welcome Home - Fiction
image by ChatGPT From her favourite spot on her balcony, Ramani looked outside. The landscape before her was as beautiful as it had been a year ago. She immediately felt a sense of belonging as she looked at the expanse of coconut trees, perfectly set against the line of the sea in the distance. Buying this house all those years ago had been worth it, even if she hadn't been able to enjoy it properly until now. She had worked as a nurse in the Gulf countries for all these years, and now, finally, she was truly back home. 'Welcome Home' were the words she had found herself repeating ever since she had landed at Mumbai airport. As she heard the maid she had hired mumble something in the distance, Ramani found her mind drifting to the past. The greenery outside brought to mind the dry, arid lands she remembered. Now that she was far away from that life and its heat, she looked back on those years of work with a sweet sense of nostalgia. She hardly remembered how she had grum...
