Rainwater Tea

Do we measure the leaves first? Or do we pour the water?
2 December 2020

Hair Fall Horror

We regret and regret all the hair that's been shed.
25 November 2020

Baghdad Diaries

The elevator door wheezes open after a high-pitched ping and I step inside, looking at the tip of my shoes while others flood in behind me.
25 November 2020

Memoir of a Songbird Named Childhood

I've always loved painting sunset as it was filled with so many colours. I loved colours. I'd use as many colours as I could to make the paintings alive.
18 November 2020

Monstrous Scallipses

Monstrous Scallipses only comes out during the night,
18 November 2020

Teascape

Zainab took the cup in her hands and flinched when the heat burned into her fingers. She brought it to her lips, tasting the flavour.
11 November 2020

Solitude and Company

The emptiness in all its glorious necromancy Falls prey to silence and its sole command.
4 November 2020

New game or exit?

Al drew his last breaths as his consciousness drifted into a cold, silent, yet uncomfortable abyss.
4 November 2020

You are beautiful, Dhaka

Today, as I hail a rickshaw and as it slowly paddles across an alley and then flits out onto a busy road, my mother's word echoes along with my little silver jhumkas in the air. And thus starts my game.
28 October 2020

The Sunset

The celestial light, burning my skin; Reminding me how to feel, ridding me of all sin.
21 October 2020

Building of Life

If it wasn't for the building with the lit up windows, she may have faded into the nothingness that wallowed around her.
21 October 2020

Bottles of Waves

Mr. Hakim was a very strange man for three things: he seldom spoke, he always smiled and he sold bottles of waves.
14 October 2020

Snakes and Ladders

“Whose face did you wake up to this morning?”
7 October 2020

The Umbrella Woman

She would stay around here, in case he came back for it. She decided. What harm would a few moments do?
30 September 2020

Another day, another dollar

The day my feet touch the ground from here, she decided at that instant, is the day I finally become a woman.
23 September 2020

About Time

She saw something one moment.
23 September 2020

Old Man’s Beard

I do not miss going to work, but I miss being young – not like the leftover puzzle pieces from several different sets jammed into one, never quite fitting.
16 September 2020

To you, Bhatu dadu

Bhatu dadu died on a Friday morning, uneventfully and unobtrusively, surprising none in the village.
9 September 2020

What is oomph?

"I just don't think there is any 'oomph' between us, you know?"
2 September 2020

Slumber of Intoxication

A strange incense fills in, Stars veiled by the cluster of clouds.
2 September 2020