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Metamorphosis

S G   Sep 30, 2007   interacts: 20

He was terrified of anyone spinning the cocoon off him, terrified of anyone looking at him closely.

Visitor

Zia Ghory   Apr 15, 2005   interacts: 7

He didn’t know what he’d say, but he couldn’t wait to see her. Now all he wanted to do was

We are family

Kokonad Sinha   Aug 22, 2007   interacts: 2

Dreams of Dania

Faisal Shahid   Oct 28, 2007   interacts: 4

Kamran lives in the old part of Lahore, near Lahori Gate. Living there, he says, makes him feel in sync

He and She

Gomathy Subramanian   Jul 19, 2007   interacts: 8

She ran after him and they looked like two small kids playing in the water.

The Reflection In My Window

Salma Omar   Jul 2, 2008   interacts: 5

As he twisted her wrist, the little girl writhed in pain, tears welling in her eyes as she struggled to

Catharsis

Ayesha Umar   Oct 9, 2007   interacts: 10

This house was her mother’s. This house was killing her slowly but surely. She could feel mother’s presence everywhere in

Trunk

shobig sifar   Jul 15, 2005   interacts: 15

He took a deep breath; a sigh of relief perhaps, for this was the long lost glory that he had

The Girl on the Car Window

Rahul Sengupta   Nov 18, 2006   interacts: 17

... babu...give some money babu. I am hungry ...

My Fascination With The Bottle

khamkhwa    Jul 2, 2005   interacts: 49

How I reached home and how I relieved myself and attained peace afterwards can not be narrated, one has to

Amma and the Clock

Dee Ahmed   Feb 10, 2004   interacts: 18

Tick tick tick…tick..tick….tick………..tick ………….tick , there it was, the clock was dying on me again. I was watching it die,

The Three Queens

Revathy Gopal   Aug 10, 2004   interacts: 10

My mother was her mother’s slave. And her mother was queen. Who was my father? I do not know. It

Lithium

zuhair vazir   Dec 21, 2005   interacts: 8

“Well, they liked my character – said I was dripping with pomaded promise. Now all I drip with is SSRI

The Shattered World

Anand Mahajan   Dec 14, 2005   interacts: 2

The minister was in a state of complete helplessness: of a man in the habit of driving drunk

The Girly-boy

Sher Shah   Aug 18, 2004   interacts: 10

Mangoes, kulfies and rusmalai. It can never get sweeter than this. The nights, that shroud the city from above, are

Better Times

Muhammad Farhan   Oct 5, 2008   interacts: 13

It is Akhtar’s fifth year in captivity. Like the others, he too is given the food confiscated from the UN

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