Dusk
Ozer Khalid May 12, 2005 interacts: 164Dusk prays for me to transform. Out the pavement through the sliding doors of life into a crowded capsule of deafening music and empty conversation.
Regal Chowk ‘Dhai Bhale’ in Abu Dhabi
Zeerik Ahmad May 11, 2005 interacts: 10Yes indeed, it is true, we were eating fresh ‘Dhai Bhale’ from the famous Lahore Regal Chowk sitting in our living room in our house
Kati Patang
Azmat Hussain May 10, 2005 interacts: 9could never figure out why my mother thought that she was protecting me from some danger that lurked on the roof. Those were the best
Gimme Eat??
Tehseen Baweja May 6, 2005 interacts: 13Sometimes I think its just me over-reacting. Maybe I am taking on these things more seriously than they ought to be taken. But I cannot
Parents and the Pill
Zehra Rizvi Apr 29, 2005 interacts: 523Which desi girl goes around asking her father, when she is unmarried, or even when she is married, to call in a birth control prescription?
Punch Drunk Love
saman abbasi Apr 22, 2005 interacts: 38He lay on the drawing room carpet; face down, totally drunk and vomiting. My eyes welled up and I could not stop my sobs.
UNhappy times?
Uma K Apr 21, 2005 interacts: 8“We are outgunned. We are outmanned. We need help from outside groups. We need to be able to organize outsiders to work with us to
Visitor
Zia Ghory Apr 15, 2005 interacts: 7He didn’t know what he’d say, but he couldn’t wait to see her. Now all he wanted to do was fall into bed and close
Maelstrom
Amrita Rajan Apr 14, 2005 interacts: 21One didn’t hate a slug, after all, for being a slug. One hates a slug only when it touches upon something hidden deep within ourselves.
Unpoet
Temporal Apr 14, 2005 interacts: 27
float and fall like flakes
one after another
in a suffocating embrace
to the ground
unloved and undead
A Fobby Love Story
syed muzammil Apr 12, 2005 interacts: 82My love vocabulary increased tenfold here, with words like relationship (it was always love, what the hell is a relationship?), breakups (no breakups in pakistan,
Why Not Adopt
Ghazal Mir Apr 10, 2005 interacts: 31What I would like to tell people who fear they cannot do justice to an adopted child is to have a better opinion of themselves.
Lahore Street Scene
Tauheed Ahmed Apr 5, 2005 interacts: 34
On a hot summers day I see
A child cross the melting street
A load on her head
And no shoes on her feet
Nowhere
Saad Siddiqui Apr 3, 2005 interacts: 8Sorrow screams inside the caves of silence. Time boils in the vat of anticipation.
Seventy Days in Karachi
Sameena Iqbal Mar 31, 2005 interacts: 33I never really realized how quickly time would run out like sand in an hourglass...
Dark Places
Soysauce Mar 31, 2005 interacts: 15Helena’s story rekindled some age-old longing that had been put away in a back corner of my heart. A love I had shut out in
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