SHORT STORIES

The steel grey structure hovered above me threatening to eat me up. Once again my mother had dragged me to the horrible place where...

By: Tehniat Fatima They always question, brewing with curiosity What is it that the sky reminds her of? Her laughter is followed by the...

My heavy feet trudged towards the nearby park in the early morning darkness. The sun had just started to peek above the horizon. I sat ...

By: Tehniat Fatima When you hear voices that overlap Like waves crashing One over another When the color pierces your eyes And the head...

“It doesn't matter if you win by an inch or a mile. Winning’s winning.” My dad used to say this every time I was salty about barely...

Random thoughts or me ranting???? I don’t really know but you might relate to this?? Also don’t know that. Doing nothing makes me...

Dear No one, You want me to be who you think I am. You want me to perfect myself to your requirements. Make me, mold me, and break me...

By: Areebah Huq There’s something oddly comforting about airports. Maybe it’s the fact that everyone, and I mean everyone, is excited....

By: Tehniat Fatima Ahmed What’s wrong? What’s right? What are lies? What’s the truth? How to distinguish? How will you know…. Where to...

By: Areebah Huq All that the lens of the camera envisioned was an explosion of various colors, bright and blinding. Not only was the...

i talked to darkness everyday told it my troubles my sins my faults i told it everything from my ambitions to my failures it was...

By: Tehniat Fatima Taking a step forward, she is pushed two steps backward Feet slipping from under her legs Life itself, had sucked her...

By: Areebah Huq To all the boys I've loved before,  Thank you for never loving me back.  To the smartest guy in class, Remember all the...

By: Tabassum Chowdhury year 2000: She walked into the library to look for a love story and came out of it becoming a part of one. She...

borrowed time is all we have countless words still left to say I will finish before I go I will finish, come what may we were never...

By: Tabassum Chowdhury It was raining incessantly. I was weighed down by my soaked denim jacket. The worn-out shoes could no longer bear...

By: Areebah Huq TRIGGER WARNING: RAPE MENTION I got out of the shower and wrapped myself with the towel. I looked at the mirror...

By: Tabassum Chowdhury I brushed off the last bits of grains that littered the hat and gently rested it on my head. I used my sweaty palm...

By: Areebah Huq I looked at myself in the mirror. To the untrained eye, I was as regular as a human can be. I had bark hair, dark brown...

By: Ayyan Shaikh There are 7 billion people in this world. Everyone lives a different life than we do. Everyone grows up differently....

By: Tabassum Chowdhury Even after 25 years, the nightmares did not quit visiting me. I wake up shrieking for help, I hear explosions...

By: Tehniat Fatima Flowers Mystifying Hypnotic Unmatched She may appear like a dull leaf Her outlines fading Yelling for the dark to...

By: Fariha Karim I was born and raised in Dhaka, Bangladesh. I have met and befriended numerous *banda housemaids in my years here. The...

Do your thang, do your thang with me now Closed eyes. Deep breathes. Let it go. Move. Move and walk to the rhythm. Fierce and gentle....

By: Tabassum Chowdhury I dipped the liquor into my boiling hot water and took a sip. I put the spectacles back onto my desk as soon as...

By: Tehniat Fatima Tradition  runs through the branches of the passionate green White equates all the other colors that we absorb One...

By: Ghadaq Zia Amy Winehouse was a British singer-songwriter. Her music mostly consisted of the genre “jazz”. She died in 2011 due to...

By: Tehniat Fatima Emptiness is so full. The dead are so alive. The crazy are the most sane. Pain is the most pleasurable. The bitterest...

By: Fariha Karim It was the year 3040. Humans had reached the peak of civilization, yet it wasn’t the robots and the gadgets that had...

By: Tehniat Fatima Ahmed Wings flopped, head lowered This creature is supposed to depict happiness and peace Yet, all I see in his eyes...

By: Raisa Islam I was falling straight down the black, empty space, and with a bang I woke up. Violent gusts of wind nearly tore me...

Everything falls, in a myriad of ways, everything falls. There will come time where she will watch everything fall, that is what the...

By: Fariha Karim If one peeked through the windows of "Oak Reimagined", the neighborhood's quaint stationery shop, they would notice a...

The wind blew past her, shaking the trees. She watched as the dry leaves fell down in a swirl. The crackling sound meeting her ears as...

By: Tehniat Fatima She drove on the highway, the traffic cones blurring past her vision as she hummed along. She was still processing,...

hello love, my invincible friend have you come to bring my life to an end you resemble a rose, in all your ways beautiful and gentle, but...

like the first ray of light creeping over the horizon she shines like the delicate veins running through a rose petal she thrives like...

There, there. There you go, There you go, There you go again. Another spiral, Another fall. One more step and down you trip. How...

Everything is lost, lost so far beyond our control. How can we ever recover, we’re kept bound in our own chains of humanity. Oh. Who's...

By: Anushka Somvanshi The sultry air engulfs the vicinity, aridity smeared the lanes, panting for breath, scorching winds run like...

By: Anushka Somvanshi Lips puckered in aphotic thoughts, throat jammed with verses, with a desire so painful, she said under the thatched...

By: Tehniat Fatima Ahmed There was no clarity in her life. Her childhood had caused her to blur all the boundaries in her mind. She...

By: Anushka Somvanshi 'Change is as good as a feast' but the flavor may not always be apt for your taste gland. Few transitions in life...

By: Ghadaq Zia From the perspective of the Islamic Ummah, the Muslims, death is the journey from one state of existence to another. The...

A little rain pitter-patter downs, takes the form of little droplets, lets the earth be washed over with it’s calm, with it’s nostalgia....

“Let us vanish together, my love.” Cross over the bridge, they say, cross over the bridge. Cross over the bridge if you seek to find an...

By: Tehniat Fatima Ahmed He skates ahead as she peeks around the end of the alley. Laughing, he speeds down the street towards the...

It stays the same. Unchanging, a little blissful, a little peaceful. The little pebble lay resting under the shade of the tree, the...

By: Tehniat Fatima Ahmed He’s the moon. I don’t want to worship him but I can’t help it. All the smiles that are the reason behind my...

By: Iman Waqas People depict death to be the epitome of an abysmal end, for someone, who still isn’t ready to depart from loved ones. But...