Short Story

The Horse and The Zebra

“Do you know the most important difference between a horse and a zebra?” Shazi asked me after the first drag

Poetry

Promise Me

Each day I feel you next to me ...

Short Story

Nipa Chowrangi

The neighbors couldn’t hear her screaming over the sound of the building’s generator, so that particular Sunday Aslam was able

Narrative

Third Letter to Uncle Sam

But why don’t you send us trousers as well? Don’t you ever take off your trousers? If you do, you

Satire

Making Waves in the Sky

We were now only a few hundred feet above the ground and cutting through the air really fast. All eyes

Satire

The Covered Trucks

PART II - We left Vapi the next morning, March 3. We started out towards Nasik, back into Maharashtra. Nasik

Poetry

A Rainy Day

I’m hit by the agony she must have felt!

Poetry

Bus Baby

A poem for Noor Fatima

Short Story

Baajoo Kee Gulley (The Side Lane)

is not only one of the more well-known phrases Manto uttered and wrote,it also described a trait in his personality

The Discovery

A young office worker makes a discovery

Halloween Party

His left arm instinctively reached out to stop the coins from rolling away.

Two Score and Ten

Books that have somehow changed my life...

Poetry

Thanksgiving III

too many queries
orphaned by thoughts
too many thoughts
not in word prison

Advantage, Men

Not all men… are such perverts though. You still have a gentlemanly breed, at your neighborhood pharmacies, which unfailingly wrap

Ramblings On the Fence

Searching for your realities in a melting pot.

Poetry

Crazy Night

Which once blossomed with delicious fruit