Fable Factory

I heard they are changing the dictionary

I heard they are changing the dictionary.

When the streetlights flicker, think of revolution

When the streetlights flicker, think of every doe-eyed child that the city swallows

House of Cards

Welcome, weary traveler! To my humble abode. Come, come. I'll show you

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?

In the absence of a light source

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

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.”

Leafhopper under the vast purple sky

In that world, ignorance amassed like water near the roots of a cypress tree.

The Last Few Fries

The place had no soul or spirit left, and it was evident in the colourless walls, the unclean glasses, the empty eyes of the server who left me a menu card.

Fable Factory / So long, goodbye

As I turned around to reply, she was gone.

July 28, 2022
July 28, 2022

Dr Aslan’s Husband during a Telephone Call

“I need you to take a few deep breaths. In and out, just like that.”

July 28, 2022
July 28, 2022

Los

When Naf woke up, he didn’t have much expectations from the day.

July 28, 2022
July 28, 2022

Love is an abstract noun

Noun. Abstract. That which cannot be touched.

July 7, 2022
July 7, 2022

Melancholy

The winter has seized my heart, I can only hear the silence around me now!

July 7, 2022
July 7, 2022

Good Nights

The day had not yet begun, the security light not yet put out.

June 30, 2022
June 30, 2022

A Room in the Corner

Why did she whisper? She isn’t the whispering kind. Nargis can’t remember the last time she heard Rakib Bhai’s wife whisper.

June 23, 2022
June 23, 2022

I Exist in Small Spaces

i exist in the smallest of spaces in the underside of a bed a corner of a balcony

June 23, 2022
June 23, 2022

EVERY TIME IT RAINS

Every time it rains, I am reminded of the story that started but never really had a proper ending.

June 16, 2022
June 16, 2022

The Second Species

A hundred years ago humans welcomed a new species of their kind, Homo debilis-sagax.

June 2, 2022
June 2, 2022

Eurocentric Standards drilled into a Brown Child’s Head

Throughout my not so long life, I’ve always wanted to be called beautiful.