The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 15 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Last Words

The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 14 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Street

The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 11 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Switch

The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 11 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Change

The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 10 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Puzzle

The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 9 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Little

Remembering Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent Willem van Gogh on his 170th birth anniversary–March 30, 1853.

The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 8 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Delete

The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 7 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Phobia.

For hope is when I dream those dreams I dared not dream.

I used to wear my minutes as accessories and now the minutes wear me.

But in this lifetime, we'll never know what we could've become.

The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 6 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Astronaut.

The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 4 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Shadow

The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 2 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Middle

Notun Bazar was burning, burning! /Shops, stores, woodpiles/ Piled up iron, timber, mosques and temples/ Notun Bazar was burning, burning!

The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 2 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Candle.

That evening, a blade sliced through string, through skin, red on red on red. Kutta, the man in khaki says. It is only later I realize it is me he is calling dog. Dog. Dog.

Using a Fulbright fellowship, Tarfia decided to come to Bangladesh to research the war and interview the women whom the Bangladesh government, in 1972, titled Birangona (war heroines). These interviews resulted in 'Seam' (Southern Illinois University Press, 2014).

my eyes can barely take the weight of sleep/ now/ now that you are wording sentences on wars