Star Literature
FLASH FICTION / Her last words
The slamming of the front door sounded an ominous note, warning of trouble to come.
FLASH FICTION / Payback time
I’m not sure when I first realised that we’d met before. In the beginning, you were just the elderly man I often noticed pottering around our communal rooftop.
POETRY / The Last Day of a Red Tulip
One early morning, before the sun’s ascent, Stood a red bud in my front lawn.
POETRY / There is no water if i’m on water
I am put away impulsively like the totems on a modern alter
ESSAY / What do the end-of-the-world narratives tell us about the climate crisis?
Thinking of the roles of narratives in responding to the climate crisis, the most obvious one that comes to mind is the effective reach of narratives that connect us to the crisis, emotionally and intellectually.
Essay / Rokeya’s relevance to Palestinian feminism
According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary (online), the first known use of the term ‘feminism’–
POETRY / Olives
Seven feet of mud swept water, /Bodies under rubble.
ESSAY / The Palestinian crisis, Holocaust production, and ‘Maus’
This is part of a grand narrative that, offensive as it is, asks why the Jewish people let themselves be killed, instead of asking why the system enabled it to happen–the same narrative also exists in the cases of colonialism and slavery.
POETRY / I, Whore; I, Birangona1
Would it be too much to ask you/ To forgive me for the carnal sin I did not commit?
The sarees and the stories we inherit
For the first time, I also found myself giddy over a male protagonist from the world of my father and uncles. The character of Nadeem, Selina's boyfriend, can be best described as a "man written by a woman".
We still dream of the things that Sultana dreamed of
As long as the problems addressed in Sultana’s Dream continue to exist and be relevant, we must uphold Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s work, values, and ideologies
Ludic space for Tagore’s fictive children
An interesting concern in contemporary children’s literature criticism is the discussion of power. Do the fictive children in children’s books, conceived and delivered by the adult author, have the ability to exercise their will and possess a voice?
The pond
She walked, entranced, into the water until it reached her chin, the wing of her little pink butterfly stuck out like a shark fin.
Vinayeki
Oh that angelic call, yet I cannot respond. I cannot open my mouth in fear of the burning pain overpowering my senses.
Hunt
Talespeople presents The Screaming Shorts, partnered with Daily Star Books and Star Literature.
Baldwin in December
Baldwin was sitting right beside, smoking, killing time, thinking of love and loneliness, friendships and misfortunes. Of Martin and Malcolm.
Séance In The 70's
Talespeople presents The Screaming Shorts, partnered with Daily Star Books and Star Literature
