Worldplay: A

Adnan M. S. Fakir teaches Economics at BRAC University.
17 June 2015

Don't Read The Newspaper

Don't Read The Newspaper
17 June 2015

Hallelujah

The bruise looked particularly bad today. Even her dirty blonde hair, that she adjusted every five minutes, couldn't hide it.
10 June 2015

Broken chalk

My chalk had snapped in two.
10 June 2015

Greens Grounded, Greys Gravitate

A Conversation in Haikus
10 June 2015

Manic Pixie Dream Boy

So manic pixie dream boy's back again
10 June 2015

MURIAL

I named my cat Murial, mainly because it rhymed with burial and the first time I saw her, she was scraping away at some dead leaves underneath the skeletons of an old oak, and they were lowering my grandaunt's coffin into the grave.
3 June 2015

Stormy-eyed

Thunder-witch.
3 June 2015

The Galaxy in My Cup

The witch in my mirror had bed-hair and teeth the colour of wheat and sand in her sleepy eyes.
3 June 2015

Hell is a Circus

He knew where he was, just as he knew that the thing on the other end of darkness was a demon. His demon.
3 June 2015

INFINITIES.

“There are three things I won't do in life: smoke a cigarette, sleep with a stranger and get married to you."
27 May 2015

THE HOUSE GUEST

The creature standing in front of Rishan did not have a specific shape. One moment it was round and blue, the next moment it resembled a purple pear like one of those “Dumb Ways to Die” characters.
27 May 2015

UNDER THE TABLE

“Stop rocking my armchair, Minu!”
27 May 2015

Utopia

There is nothing here, in this decaying city
27 May 2015

Electro pop sensibilities

The taciturn sky — distant, too
27 May 2015

This Song is About...

I felt as if he'd pressed play on a tape recorder. Clandestine phone calls in the middle of the night with promises of sweeter endings.
20 May 2015

STORYTELLING ADVICE

If done right, short sentences can be very effective in providing bursts of information in a powerful way.
13 May 2015

PACKAGE FROM PERSIA

It was sent by the only son of Old Shikdar who worked at a big office at Bandar Abbas.
6 May 2015

LETTER TO YOUR HIGHNESS

It has been long since you graced our project with your participation. I'm afraid it yearns for you very badly and its condition is deteriorating with every passing day.
29 April 2015

THE THINKING GAME

“What is taking Dad so long?”
29 April 2015