Fiction

Fiction

The mirror between us

And for the Oldest, the mirror wounds as well.

1m ago

Reader Submission / It’s all in my head

In the silence, her mind ruminated on every little detail.

3m ago

Reader Submission / Maybe a mirage

Something you may... You may never find again.

4m ago

How to: live

My love always arrived wrapped in silence, wrapped in dust. But that was childhood.

4m ago

Heart, cling to me

We will make meaning out of the holes in the sun

4m ago

Fiction / Once, spring stayed longer

He brought the jasmine to his nose, inhaled its narcotic sweetness, and wondered if maybe, just maybe, it was true.

5m ago

Fiction / When they look away

“Do you think they think about us?” Asgar muttered.

6m ago

Hair

I love the texture of your hair and I wanted to tell you about it in far too many words than either you or I are comfortable with.

7m ago

Tangerines and marmalades

I stared at the row of pre-peeled and packaged tangerines sealed tightly under plastic wrap.

8m ago

Let me cut out your mother’s tongue

Let me cut out your mother’s tongue and lay it down beside you like my mother did with mine.

8m ago

12A

Rank badges, small bags, books, diaries, notebooks, files… That’s when it caught Razeen’s eye: a weathered, dusty old envelope bearing a faint, unrecognisable logo.

9m ago

Bulb of a Wonton Shop

It is enough— Enough to be here, Beneath the bulb of a wonton shop.

10m ago

Out of Body

I know of my feeble frame of its graying at the edges.

10m ago

Migratory Animals

migratory animal Are you looking for a home?

10m ago

States

"That’s why I have jars of jealousy, anger, sadness, monotony, but this – it’s important."

11m ago

Love poem for the reflection in the mirror

I will not even begin with the skies

11m ago

Serendipity

Wake me up every morning as dawn becomes a new day.

1y ago

15 long years and a Bangladesh that stays united

After 15 long years, long years of no freedom, long years of being buried,

1y ago