Fiction

Names written on lists

27 February 2026, 10:00 AM Fiction

Reader submission / The limerence of ghats

26 February 2026, 16:00 PM Fiction

To exist in two places at once…

30 January 2026, 10:00 AM Fiction

Survival should not cost them their souls

30 January 2026, 10:00 AM Fiction

Reader submission / Alone and lonely

26 January 2026, 19:57 PM Fiction

Where they all disappear

28 November 2025, 10:00 AM Fiction

The mirror between us

25 September 2025, 09:49 AM Fiction

Reader Submission / It’s all in my head

31 July 2025, 04:00 AM Fiction

Reader Submission / Maybe a mirage

26 June 2025, 10:25 AM Fiction

How to: live

26 June 2025, 10:19 AM Fiction

Collage of a jar and fruits against a watercolour background

States

"That’s why I have jars of jealousy, anger, sadness, monotony, but this – it’s important."

29 November 2024, 11:00 AM

Flowers in the foreground which have been blurred with a boat sailing across the water in the background

Love poem for the reflection in the mirror

I will not even begin with the skies

29 November 2024, 08:00 AM

A cycle on a sidewalk being used as a makeshift street side store selling paper fans.

Serendipity

Wake me up every morning as dawn becomes a new day.

31 October 2024, 10:18 AM

15 long years and a Bangladesh that stays united

After 15 long years, long years of no freedom, long years of being buried,

3 October 2024, 09:02 AM

Vintage illustrations of lemons and fries against a watercolour background

My love is lost, and I don’t want it anymore

Every time I enter it, this building carves out a tiny piece of my heart, leaving behind the sharp tang of hospital bleach and lemon-scented air freshener in its place.

26 September 2024, 00:00 AM

The final message

Ameera was the apple of her grandfather’s eyes. Due to having working parents, she lived with her grandparents most of the time.

2 September 2024, 08:43 AM

I heard they are changing the dictionary

I heard they are changing the dictionary.

24 August 2024, 17:46 PM

When the streetlights flicker, think of revolution

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

24 August 2024, 17:42 PM

Motion

There are no lamplights in this end of the neighbourhood. Only tall trees standing upright on either side of the road, their leaves drooping down in lament for a long-forgotten motion.

25 July 2024, 11:31 AM

The Oracle

He was, like most children, easily amused. Unlike most other children however, he never hesitated to express it. He was full of life and energy.

29 June 2024, 00:00 AM

Afloat, Untethered

From every direction strong torrents meet Collide, counter, and begrudgingly recede.

29 June 2024, 00:00 AM

House of Cards

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

30 May 2024, 06:00 AM

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?

30 May 2024, 05:45 AM

In the absence of a light source

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

30 May 2024, 05:30 AM

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.”

25 April 2024, 09:36 AM