readers submission

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

POETRY / Rebel is a letter in red

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

POETRY / Raw Magnolias

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

POETRY / 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

POETRY / A means to an end

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

July 25, 2023
July 25, 2023

All characters are fictitious

Suddenly, a giant shadow covered up the ground beneath their feet. When she looked up, she couldn’t see the face of the figure until it came closer and sat on the edge of the branch they were sitting on.

July 22, 2023
July 22, 2023

Ode to an ariel dancer

Clouds in heaven bow and billow around your feet, and you- glide through, oblivious to their ethereal presence.

July 22, 2023
July 22, 2023

Women’s revolution

The theocracy is crumbling in its seat

July 20, 2023
July 20, 2023

Lamp of grief

Nothing is meaningless if speech and silence  fill void, flowing in the same force, and no one blocks the road to dreaming.

July 19, 2023
July 19, 2023

My van my grief

I tried to be renamed in the middle  But my van and I have never been apart!

June 30, 2023
June 30, 2023

The Blanket

Suddenly, the shadow became larger on the wall. At that exact moment, something felt heavy on Farid’s chest–and got heavier by the minute. Everything was still, and in that silence, a silhouette slowly grew over Farid’s  body. 

February 18, 2023
February 18, 2023

La Marionette

She wakes up suddenly from her unnatural beeline posture, slowly and ever so gently, like a chained demon would after just hours of calculated slumber. I never look.

January 28, 2023
January 28, 2023

Love won’t you love me

Break me into numbers and spirals, and blood and flesh make me all that I don't wish to be.

January 7, 2023
January 7, 2023

Favourite season

Showers and storms give way To a surge of sunlight A fragrance of hope floats in On morning breeze

December 17, 2022
December 17, 2022

Catch spooky horror tales this winter!

Catch more ghost stories like this from the winners of 'Winter Night Ghost Stories' competition all throughout winter, every weekend, here.

  •