PYROMANIAC

The walls were white, too white in fact, almost mocking me. The comatose pastiness challenged me, daring me to add colour to it.
22 June 2016

I See You

I see you, On lazy summer afternoons, when drops of gold and crystal collide
22 June 2016

A Warrior's Reverie

He didn't know how to fly before.
15 June 2016

Emotions

Kelly was crying her heart out. Her dress got soaked in tears as she watched pools of blood flood the room.
15 June 2016

32 White Tiles

There are 32 large white tiles on this corridor. Tiles that smell of disinfectant when you first stand on them, but after you spend a week or so, they start to smell of something more sinister: despair, solitude, broken dreams, and empty promises.
15 June 2016

You Know How This Ends, I Didn't

I hate to tell you a story that starts with me waking up. You've read enough of those and so have I but there literally is no other way.
8 June 2016

Some Lost Dreams

On a gentle afternoon in the month of Agrahayan,
8 June 2016

Sun-kissed

“Kisses,” she told me, “are spoken in the language of the soul.”
8 June 2016

A POWERPOINT PRESENTATION FROM A DAEMON

When I say I wake up next to a daemon every morning with a dry laugh, men think that it's my wife and share a good laugh.
1 June 2016

Grade (and Other) Boundaries

Minutes before the start of the exam, all Afzal could focus on was the nervous clicking of a pen by the girl next to him, 2855.
1 June 2016

Dear Best Friend

Dear best friend, it's been ages we met, So long you have been around, months I bet.
1 June 2016

THE FACE IN THE MIRROR

The face in the mirror, staring back.
25 May 2016

Happy Days

Option Number Three passed me the salt. She was always awfully quiet at the dinner table, I wasn't sure why. I think it had something to do with the military etiquette her father had taught her.
25 May 2016

Stranger

I think I'll just let the phone ring today.
25 May 2016

Velvet Junction of Two Pendulous Roads

Spring is here, under my clotted hopes.
18 May 2016

HELP, I'VE TURNED INTO A PRAYING MANTIS

So, I woke up today, opened my eyes and was astonished that I had 360 vision. Not only that, everything was way bigger than me.
18 May 2016

A Walk to Remember

Binding in the hoodie and grabbing my coffee...
18 May 2016

The Index Toe

Once when my grandma came to visit us, I discovered a jewellery box beneath her pillow. It had the cutest hair clips.
11 May 2016

Voices

Nights were generally silent. The last sound of the night was the sound of the prison gates shutting down.
11 May 2016

Parasailing

I feel like parasailing. But what if I fall and get hurt? I will be injured for a long time.
11 May 2016