Fiction

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Reader Submission / The piper’s solace
Monica Margaret Gomes
3 August 2026 • Fiction
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Fiction / Sweet in the palm of your hands
Punomi Rahman Titir
25 June 2026 • Fiction
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Reader Submission / Sins of the blameless
Durga
20 May 2026 • Fiction
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Poetry / Sorceress
Punomi Rahman Titir
1 May 2026 • Fiction
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Fiction / When time stands still
Tinath Zaeba
1 May 2026 • Fiction
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Fiction / Letter from my dead grandmother
Punomi Rahman Titir
27 March 2026 • Fiction
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Names written on lists
Tasfiah Liakat
27 February 2026 • Fiction
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Reader submission / The limerence of ghats
Monica Margaret Gomes
26 February 2026 • Fiction
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To exist in two places at once…
Tinath Zaeba
30 January 2026 • Fiction
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Survival should not cost them their souls
Tasfiah Liakat
30 January 2026 • Fiction
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The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in your House

If they knew, your mother would have said, “It’s in your head, darling,” and your father would have screamed, “Put that head in the toilet bowl where it belongs.”
25 April 2024
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Azure 

The sky is the most obscure portion of Earth which can be read with utmost ease.
31 March 2024
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The things we do for more salami

An Eid special edition of Rising Star's monthly comic strip.
28 March 2024
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Facing the nightmare of darkness

Lighting struck everywhere. Amidst the enchanted woods, the howls of wolves echoed with a joyous "Awoo!".
29 February 2024
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Sweet shop vendors

We will chase after stringless kites, Down the road
29 February 2024
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When the sky lights up

A special comic this week on Rising Stars
28 December 2023
A utility pole and the sun rising behind it.

Life through the lens of an electricity pole

Today, I am covered in lines. Rust from the rain, and the occasional overflowing water from the drain paint my feet in unchangeable colours.
28 December 2023
Homesickness

Homesick

Once a homebody, nestled in its embrace. Now lost, a wanderer in a boundless space.
28 December 2023
Two hands reaching out for each other amidst a vivid pattern.

Fog beneath the winter skyline

The two friends grew up together playing cricket in the garage, watching Pokémon routinely at 6 PM on Cartoon Network at Zuhayer's flat, and chasing stringless kites.
30 November 2023
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THE DAWN OF THE DESHI SIX

Superheroes we need and deserve.
30 September 2023
Portrait of a girl with a butterfly covering the upperpart of her face and other elements such as plants, mirrors, and a test tube scattered around her.

The After-chapter

With my memories remaining an unvisited dream, I woke up amidst the calm green meadow that gently held onto me.
28 September 2023
Intergalactic elements.

Parting

While I fear whom you’ll become once you hear me, once you leave me.
31 August 2023
A letterbox with vivid brushstrokes behind it.

Fathers and Daughters and Unmailed Letters

Perhaps father was never taught to love.
31 August 2023
Paper cutout elements.

My Home

The trust you gain takes time. 
31 August 2023
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Intrusive

Memories melting together, shattering to shreds
27 July 2023
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Leafhopper under the vast purple sky

In that world, ignorance amassed like water near the roots of a cypress tree.
27 July 2023
An entry and an exit.

Love will live

Or will you bloom into a new life with me? 
6 July 2023
Cityscape at night

Chander Buri and an insomniac’s drivel

I’d never felt sadder at the prospect of not being a part of someone else’s story.
22 June 2023
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Delirium

The wish itself was pretty mediocre and commonplace, a mundane fantasy to escape the mundane.
27 May 2023
Doodles of two faces with floral patterns surrounding it against a backdrop of the sky.

Keep you company, keeping myself company

We imagine ourselves.
20 April 2023