Fiction

Fiction

Fiction / When they look away

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

6d 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.

3w ago

Tangerines and marmalades

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

2m 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.

2m 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.

3m ago

Bulb of a Wonton Shop

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

4m ago

Out of Body

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

4m ago

Migratory Animals

migratory animal Are you looking for a home?

4m ago

A Dead River is All I Want

You know those instances when we start off in the wide, turbulent currents of a river making its way downstream?

11m ago

In the absence of a light source

Grief is a lonely river, like a fisherman's song with an empty net

11m ago

The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in your House

If they knew, your mother would have said, “It’s in your head, darling,” and your father would have screamed, “Put that head in the toilet bowl where it belongs.”

1y ago

Azure 

The sky is the most obscure portion of Earth which can be read with utmost ease.

1y ago

The things we do for more salami

An Eid special edition of Rising Star's monthly comic strip.

1y ago

Facing the nightmare of darkness

Lighting struck everywhere. Amidst the enchanted woods, the howls of wolves echoed with a joyous "Awoo!".

1y ago

Sweet shop vendors

We will chase after stringless kites, Down the road

1y ago

When the sky lights up

A special comic this week on Rising Stars

1y ago

Life through the lens of an electricity pole

Today, I am covered in lines. Rust from the rain, and the occasional overflowing water from the drain paint my feet in unchangeable colours.

1y ago

Homesick

Once a homebody, nestled in its embrace. Now lost, a wanderer in a boundless space.

1y ago