| Short Stories | Perimeter
Noorulain Noor poignantly writes about the common perceptions that plague us when we live in a different culture; perceptions which so often don’t come from any other outside source, but our own. So when the protagonist completes the Perimeter of her walk, you'll be right beside her.
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| Snow Angels
In this short story, Maryam Piracha writes about love, loss and the oftentimes messy entanglements relationships bring with them. Set upon a snowy mountaintop, Snow Angels follows the trajectory of one man's emotional and mental well being.
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| A Communist Sketch
Here, Madeeha Ansari presents a brilliant outlook on the Marxist philosophy and communism as a whole. Be prepared to look beneath the surface and not necessarily like what you see.
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| Non-Fiction / Rambles | On the Dock
In which the writer, Jalal Curmally, discusses the death of fairy tales, sauce, neon lights, iron underwear and other useless things. An insightful look into the often times ignored other side, to the ring cycle.
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| Swimming in Swan Lake
Part poet, part writer, part whimsical author Maria Amir spins a piece full of lost remembrance, set to the tune of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, a melody that weaves its way into every word of Swimming in Swan Lake.
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| The Lost Prophets
The Lost Prophets is often times brooding and a lesson in self-reflection by the writer, Maria Amir, whose words and philosophies leave a distinct impression upon the reader whether or not you agree with her “thesis” on life in general, or hers in particular.
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Woman of the World
Madeeha Ansari presents a look into the modern day “woman of the world”; collegiates thrust into the real world, the hard won lessons to be learnt throughout a rushed life and the need to pause and smell the flowers along the way.
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How to Shave Like a Man
Omair Ahmed follows the course of a single razor blade as it works its way across stubble and perhaps something more, in this witty (and sharp) take on shaving. Be careful you don’t cut yourself…!
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That Which Must Not Be
Here, writer Pareesa Khan write from the gut and seat of her pants about truly falling off the edge. That Which Must Not Be does not present a solution but merely a portrayal of spiraling out of control at gravity defying speeds.
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| Poetry | The Imaginary Circle of Love
How do we define the bond we share with the people to whom we are close to, or at least, we once were? Noorulain Noor doesn’t pretend to have the answers, but hopes to find them within the perimeter of The Imaginary Circle of Love.
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| Songs for Rhea
Every so often, a poem comes along that doesn’t pretend to be anything but a beautiful, heartening and poignant piece. Asfandyar Khan delivers this and so much more in Songs for Rhea.
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| Swan Song of the Balladist
In Swan Song, poet Sahar Mullick writes about the fragility, the very essence of the poetic existence in a poem that will leave you mesmerized.
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Sans Visage
A poet’s tribute to a writer’s everyday bread and butter: words. In this piece, Pareesa Khan follows them on their trajectory from mind to paper to history.
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Rotten Potatoes
Love, poverty and poetry. Poet Noorulain Noor writes a portrait of all three at their best. Sacrifice, hardship and a real life fairy tale, all amalgamated into one. It is one part a poem, one part a warning to what may happen when we allow the world and its problems to get the better of us.
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Nihilia
Caught in a moment of self-reflection, Nihilia chronologizes the moment when we realize our lives have not turned out to be what we thought they would. Meredith Haans writes bitterly and with a dash of irony and regret at the life that may have been, and was never to be.
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Ways to Kill Yourself
A no-nonsense poem about death, suicide and life, poet Noorulain Noor uses the deaths of poets and writers past to deliver a precise piece that, in the last line, throws you an emotional punch in the gut that will leave you panting for more. |
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There Is A Spoon
Sahar Mullick writes about the illusions and grandeurs of love and loss and love all over again. Recommended reading for anyone who’s nursed a broken heart...or wanted to.
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