Fiction

Reader Submission / The piper’s solace

Monica Margaret Gomes

3 August 2026 • Fiction

Fiction / Sweet in the palm of your hands

Punomi Rahman Titir

25 June 2026 • Fiction

Reader Submission / Sins of the blameless

Durga

20 May 2026 • Fiction

Poetry / Sorceress

Punomi Rahman Titir

1 May 2026 • Fiction

Fiction / When time stands still

Tinath Zaeba

1 May 2026 • Fiction

Fiction / Letter from my dead grandmother

Punomi Rahman Titir

27 March 2026 • Fiction

Names written on lists

Tasfiah Liakat

27 February 2026 • Fiction

Reader submission / The limerence of ghats

Monica Margaret Gomes

26 February 2026 • Fiction

To exist in two places at once…

Tinath Zaeba

30 January 2026 • Fiction

Survival should not cost them their souls

Tasfiah Liakat

30 January 2026 • Fiction

Tangerines and marmalades

I stared at the row of pre-peeled and packaged tangerines sealed tightly under plastic wrap.

28 February 2025

Let me cut out your mother’s tongue

Let me cut out your mother’s tongue and lay it down beside you like my mother did with mine.

28 February 2025

12A

Rank badges, small bags, books, diaries, notebooks, files… That’s when it caught Razeen’s eye: a weathered, dusty old envelope bearing a faint, unrecognisable logo.

30 January 2025

Bulb of a Wonton Shop

It is enough— Enough to be here, Beneath the bulb of a wonton shop.

26 December 2024

Out of Body

I know of my feeble frame of its graying at the edges.

26 December 2024

Migratory Animals

migratory animal Are you looking for a home?

26 December 2024

Collage of a jar and fruits against a watercolour background

States

"That’s why I have jars of jealousy, anger, sadness, monotony, but this – it’s important."

29 November 2024

Flowers in the foreground which have been blurred with a boat sailing across the water in the background

Love poem for the reflection in the mirror

I will not even begin with the skies

29 November 2024

A cycle on a sidewalk being used as a makeshift street side store selling paper fans.

Serendipity

Wake me up every morning as dawn becomes a new day.

31 October 2024

15 long years and a Bangladesh that stays united

After 15 long years, long years of no freedom, long years of being buried,

3 October 2024

Vintage illustrations of lemons and fries against a watercolour background

My love is lost, and I don’t want it anymore

Every time I enter it, this building carves out a tiny piece of my heart, leaving behind the sharp tang of hospital bleach and lemon-scented air freshener in its place.

26 September 2024

The final message

Ameera was the apple of her grandfather’s eyes. Due to having working parents, she lived with her grandparents most of the time.

2 September 2024

I heard they are changing the dictionary

I heard they are changing the dictionary.

24 August 2024

When the streetlights flicker, think of revolution

When the streetlights flicker, think of every doe-eyed child that the city swallows

24 August 2024

Motion

There are no lamplights in this end of the neighbourhood. Only tall trees standing upright on either side of the road, their leaves drooping down in lament for a long-forgotten motion.

25 July 2024