Reader Submission / The piper’s solace
3 August 2026
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Fiction
Fiction / Sweet in the palm of your hands
25 June 2026
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Fiction
Reader Submission / Sins of the blameless
20 May 2026
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Fiction
Poetry / Sorceress
1 May 2026
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Fiction
Fiction / When time stands still
1 May 2026
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Fiction
Fiction / Letter from my dead grandmother
27 March 2026
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Fiction
Names written on lists
27 February 2026
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Fiction
Reader submission / The limerence of ghats
26 February 2026
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Fiction
To exist in two places at once…
30 January 2026
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Fiction
Survival should not cost them their souls
30 January 2026
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Fiction
The piper’s solace
After a hard day at work, leaning against the concrete wall, he picked up his only precious possession – his flute, his solace.
3 August 2026
Sweet in the palm of your hands
My acquaintance with Parveen Apa was initiated almost five years ago. I was appointed as a private-duty nurse at Mrs Aleya Khatun’s residence to look after her ill mother.
25 June 2026
Sins of the blameless
Suffering in a world where the victims get blamed, and the tainted hearts get praised
20 May 2026
Sorceress
By the flickering stove, blue potion jars cradling in-between worn-out fingers swivelling amidst cracks of skin meld into warmth.
1 May 2026
When time stands still
Inside the glass walls of my hourglass, I have always felt the inevitability of decline, yet I never realised that even falling is beautiful.
1 May 2026
Letter from my dead grandmother
By virtue of my untimely demise, it appears that I have all of a sudden been promoted, quite without my consent, to somewhat the rank of a posthumous enigma.
27 March 2026
Names written on lists
Remember that you are human, even as the world tries its best to erase you.
27 February 2026
The limerence of ghats
The ghats, each a storyteller, offered us a promise to take us to our destination.
26 February 2026
To exist in two places at once…
Between these two forms — the held and the moving — lies an ongoing experiment with distance.
30 January 2026
Survival should not cost them their souls
When her back bends, call it devotion; when his silence deepens, call it strength.
30 January 2026
Alone and lonely
The same one that once pleaded, cried, and whimpered had then whispered.
26 January 2026
Where they all disappear
All he hears is the weight of his right-hand trembling as the frantic sound of beak against wooden board grows louder and louder.
28 November 2025
The mirror between us
And for the Oldest, the mirror wounds as well.
25 September 2025
It’s all in my head
In the silence, her mind ruminated on every little detail.
31 July 2025
Maybe a mirage
Something you may... You may never find again.
26 June 2025
How to: live
My love always arrived wrapped in silence, wrapped in dust. But that was childhood.
26 June 2025
Heart, cling to me
We will make meaning out of the holes in the sun
26 June 2025
Once, spring stayed longer
He brought the jasmine to his nose, inhaled its narcotic sweetness, and wondered if maybe, just maybe, it was true.
29 May 2025
When they look away
“Do you think they think about us?” Asgar muttered.
25 April 2025
Hair
I love the texture of your hair and I wanted to tell you about it in far too many words than either you or I are comfortable with.
6 April 2025