readers submission

POETRY / I loved you because I did

So go in peace, be free, be kind.

FICTION / A sacrifice

When he was handing over the money to Naimuddin, their father, Kalam silently cried, holding Dholi’s neck in the yard.

POETRY / Will you remember me?

When moon fades into dawn and when I pass away with it / Will you think of all that I was?

Poetry / Tupperware cake

1 and 3/4 cups of sugar, 2 cups of i-love-you

REFLECTIONS / The Doppelgänger

It was actually a bit of a relief to sit on the terrace of the Gezira Pension and have a quiet breakfast before plunging back once more into the traffic of Cairo in search of a carriage to the museum.

POETRY / My heart's longevity comes from my maa's magnifying kindness

Maa, you are an endless exhibition / of sweet-sour happiness

FICTION / City of bougainvillea

“The roads are too clean. The sun is too bright,” she thought.

FICTION / Shadhin

Sumedha replied with annoyance, "I will make him say the words. It's so simple, 'Apni kemon achhen, bhalo?' Why can't he say it?"

POETRY / Anger and other blessings

A walkway through the crystal-clear lies

September 13, 2024
September 13, 2024

City of bougainvillea

“The roads are too clean. The sun is too bright,” she thought.

September 11, 2024
September 11, 2024

Shadhin

Sumedha replied with annoyance, "I will make him say the words. It's so simple, 'Apni kemon achhen, bhalo?' Why can't he say it?"

August 22, 2024
August 22, 2024

Anger and other blessings

A walkway through the crystal-clear lies

July 18, 2024
July 18, 2024
July 17, 2024
July 17, 2024

Rebel is a letter in red

Where voices unite, a chorus strong, / Demanding justice, righting wrong

June 8, 2024
June 8, 2024

Raw Magnolias

This is a garden, these are my petals; this is my armoring plant

June 1, 2024
June 1, 2024

I've seen love

I've seen love/ Rolling down from a mother's eyes/ As she picks her lean child, bathed in innocent blood

May 30, 2024
May 30, 2024

A means to an end

go further than/ what the hills have seen/ through their ice pick scars

April 27, 2024
April 27, 2024

Saree

The yard in this noontime is buzzing with/ The white aroma of the guava flower

April 20, 2024
April 20, 2024

Cyan is my name when I talk about you

I'm tired of living with this nagging thought that we'll cross paths someday, /You and I