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| The Writer |
The Procession of Loss
In The Procession of Loss, author Noorulain Noor spins a tale of rememberance and grief colluding with cassette tapes, motorcycles and recurring nightmares to unravel a tale of subtleties.
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| The Abstract Thinker |
A Dance of Desperation
The ideal flirtation. Is there such a thing? Maria Amir doesn’t provide the answers, but asks an elusive question that has mystified others of her sex…and perhaps will continue to baffle. A Dance of Desperation is many things: musing, opinion, stories of loss, heartbreak, of hide-and-be-soughts,...
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| The Poet |
Fish-Bowl Tempest
Poet Meredith Hans conjures up life inside the proverbial fishbowl, of unsaid, unspoken words and unprobably unrealized if they were.
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| Prose | The Tempest That Brews In Her Teapot
The phrase 'hell hath no fury', is particularly poignant in Eshal Saleem's The Tempest That Brews In Her Teapot, as want, desire and the mundane climax in one last, shuddering crescendo. Fortune favors the bold.
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| | The Atrocity
Death, terrorism, war, chaos all merge to form The Atrocity, Taimur Farouk’s tale set in a distant land with odd clangs of familiarity. By journey’s end, you’ll wonder if any of it was real and realize, with a cold finality, that it always is.
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| | Sniffing Glue
Abdul Qadir creates a fresh paradigm of poetry and verse in Sniffing Glue, which is in equal parts elusive and coherent, which in this case perhaps, is particularly apt.
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| Poetry | Butch(er) The Man(iac)
Tantalizingly duplicitous in its execution, Omer Wahaj spins together a bard both endearing and chilling at the same time.
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| | Let them Eat Cake
Poet Eshal Saleem continues her signature foray into married, typified existence and creates a recipe for tantalizing disaster in the exquisite Let them Eat Cake.
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| | By the Pond
A small, poignant bit of poetry. The poet, Areej Siddiqui conveys both endearing life and deafening silence and heartbreak within the six lines that By the Pond spans.
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| | The Pond
Simultaneously both heartbreaking and wonderfully bold, The Pond continues this issue's themes of life, death and oftentimes cruel, rebirth. Noorulain Noor narrates a looped existence, and of the fierce consequences a life of routine can take.
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| | Outcasts
Who are the real outcasts in our paltry existences, Hanzala Behram questions? Is it the ones on the "wrong side of the tracks", or are the real outsiders driving around in airconditioned motorcars? A timeless question, particularly poignant in these hardened times.
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| | On An Anonymous Street Corner
What is it about lost moments and maybes that tantalizes us so? In this wonderful poem, Noorulain Noor doesn't offer explanations or endeavor answers to questions best left unanswered. Instead, she weaves a story of love, loss, elusive passions and Yeats on An Anonymous Street Corner.
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