Hello friends, this is Rita Soam, a writer for the Impish-Las publishing house and editor for the Young Barth Project. My stories mostly are a slice of my own life and life of the people around me. This is an extract from my story, U-turn, published in the anthology The Impish Eagle. It is about an elderly couple who were joked by their own son. Finally, the decision was made. The rest of their life could be spent with their son and grandchildren in the US. The winding up process started. All their bank accounts had to be closed and the money transferred into their son's account till they opened their own account in the US. Except their pension accounts which could not be closed and every year they would have to visit the bank which the son agreed that they would be able to visit India once every year. The house they built with so much of love also got sold. That money too was transferred into their son's account. Finally, it was time for them to leave. Their friends beat them farewell throwing dinners and lunches. For the last time they looked back at the place where they spent half their lives. Tears filled their eyes. They reached the airport. Their son made them sit outside telling them that he would check things inside and come back to fetch them. They waited. It was an unending wait.