Fiction

When the sky lights up

A special comic this week on Rising Stars

5d ago

Homesick

Once a homebody, nestled in its embrace. Now lost, a wanderer in a boundless space.

6d ago

A utility pole and the sun rising behind it.

Life through the lens of an electricity pole

Today, I am covered in lines. Rust from the rain, and the occasional overflowing water from the drain paint my feet in unchangeable colours.

6d ago

Two hands reaching out for each other amidst a vivid pattern.

Fiction / Fog beneath the winter skyline

The two friends grew up together playing cricket in the garage, watching Pokémon routinely at 6 PM on Cartoon Network at Zuhayer's flat, and chasing stringless kites.

THE DAWN OF THE DESHI SIX

Superheroes we need and deserve.

The After-chapter

With my memories remaining an unvisited dream, I woke up amidst the calm green meadow that gently held onto me.

Reader Submission / My Home

The trust you gain takes time.

Fathers and Daughters and Unmailed Letters

Perhaps father was never taught to love.

Parting

While I fear whom you’ll become once you hear me, once you leave me.

Intrusive

Memories melting together, shattering to shreds

Leafhopper under the vast purple sky

In that world, ignorance amassed like water near the roots of a cypress tree.

Love will live

Or will you bloom into a new life with me?

Chander Buri and an insomniac’s drivel

I’d never felt sadder at the prospect of not being a part of someone else’s story.

Delirium

The wish itself was pretty mediocre and commonplace, a mundane fantasy to escape the mundane.

Doodles of two faces with floral patterns surrounding it against a backdrop of the sky.

Keep you company, keeping myself company

We imagine ourselves.

Jhalmuri for the hollowed in-between

“Extra ghugni, no chilis,” he confirmed, his cyber-enhanced eyes ever judging.

Fish Tank

This is just another fish tank.

My first encounter with the unknown

“Excellent! Come downstairs, we’re waiting for you.”