I didn’t know who I was, May be a broken star,

Every day at 3 AM I’d see her. She’d be in the second compartment of the subway sitting with her legs crossed with a book in her hand. Always with a book in her hand. She’d sit so perfectly and so still, you’d mistake her for a china doll. If she did not occasionally flip the pages of her book, I would actually think so. Even when she flipped the pages she’d do so with the utmost grace.

“You’re not listening to me, are you?” he asks, clearly disappointed. Ugh, I zoned out again.

You call and tell me to leave in a hurry,

A sigh escapes my mouth again as I unknowingly get back to looking for you.

“It is my firm belief that I, Verico Moname, am a rational educated human being who doesn’t allow her life to be ruled or ruined by myths she heard about in her first grade Math class.”

Telephone wires do not exist anymore. They went extinct in my house

“Fool!” he typed on his keyboard, with fervor and angst. He knew he was right. He knew they were in the wrong.

My sister, when born, was so very thin.

It’s middle of the night. I’m staring at the restless lady with sweaty temple waiting for her train. May be she’s enjoying solitude or getting bored with it.

When fires hold the earth captive and the trees grow alive dancing Like fiery beacons,

“What brings out your strongest and frailest version out of yourself? “

“Eva, tell me something?” “Yes,” I breathed.

The ocean roars and the sky above Breaks open and reveals the birds

He looked onwards at the sky. A long, hopeful stare. As if the longer he stared into the beautiful blue sky, the faster she would be here.

We’re running as fast as possible. You’re pulling ahead just a little and in the middle of fearing for our lives, I’m suddenly hit with the

It started with a sudden breeze in the middle of a not so pelting monsoon.

I store my tears in a jar,

I hadn’t slept for days and I could feel my body finally giving in and drifting away. It felt like I was in a dream when I heard the phone ring. I patiently waited for the ringing to stop then closed my eyes. It hurt to even keep them open at this point. But, there it was

It was a rainy afternoon when Rafid and I were looking at the rain and thinking about the things that went wrong in our last film. The two of us along with Sakib, Fariha and Fahim had just shot a film with a famous director over the last few months.