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Articles with tag: loss

The Disturbed

Ayesha Umar   Dec 11, 2007   interacts: 20

“Written words are dead letters… I am sick of writing; I want to speak. It feels good when your voice travels to someone’s attentive ears."

White

Tahera Sajid   Aug 13, 2007   interacts: 6

A lone tear escapes her eye. And burns a trail down my cheek.

So Long Farewell

sameena khan   Jul 29, 2005   interacts: 15

It was her mother’s funeral. The woman residing within her had cast a demonic, necromantic spell upon her. Like Mephistopheles having lost his soul, she, the daughter, sat frozen and immobile bereft of any sense of loss or grief – one insurmou

Boxed-Up Memories

Faiza Hussain   Jun 17, 2005   interacts: 23

I would extend my arms to embrace her…to provide her with the warmth of my affection, to carry her into the haven of motherly love, only to discover the chains of solitude embracing me in return.

Past

Sirosh Bokhari   Mar 28, 2004   interacts: 14

Night was never so long,
Hopes, never so waned.
Lost unto death’s deep valley
A face, I truly loved.


Basement

Godot    Dec 29, 2003   interacts: 74

Don’t know where you came from and where you went afterwards. I only knew that my house was in your way, and you were always thirsty whenever you passed it.

The Myth Of Three Words.

K Anish Pokharel   Oct 7, 2003   interacts: 7

'Only if life had been so much blissful, I would have just sat and cried!”

Forty Winks

Abdullah Arian   Feb 5, 2003   interacts: 8

Where do you draw the line between fantasy and reality?

The King’s Gambit: Chapter 4 (The Aviator)

Umair Raja and Omer Rafique    Jul 31, 2002   interacts: 32

The seventy-two year old Christian Palestinian was confidently sitting at the head of the most powerful group of Muslim men ever assembled

Kashmir Fatigue

Ajay Raina   Jun 17, 2002   interacts: 705

I still have a home there and I am looking forward to my permanent return

Whose Iqbal — Ours or Theirs?

Zafar Anjum   Mar 11, 2002   interacts: 182

As if I am the traveler as well as the destination itself

The Brahmin Warrior

Rehan Ansari   Dec 8, 2001   interacts: 42

He found Hey Ram disturbing, but not in a good way.

The Virgin Bride

Nafisa Haji   Aug 4, 2001   interacts: 234

The idea of doing that with some sophisticated American bombshell...was paralyzing

Degrees of Horror

Jawahara Saidullah   Mar 6, 2001   interacts: 14

Someone in Kutch is just a few degrees removed from me

His Gift

Bina Shah   Sep 8, 1999   interacts: 63

He knew things without knowing how he knew them.

Threads - Part 2

Star Marlboro   Aug 28, 1999   interacts: 11

the city she would greedily crave for after she left

Fishhooks

Bina Shah   May 19, 1999   interacts: 39

Some men are like fishhooks. They slide so easily into the softest flesh they find

Khodoki

Sheldon Pacotti   Aug 11, 1998   interacts: 1

Down and out in Leninsk, Kazakhistan: an old technician at Russia’s largest spaceport

Azadi

Sheldon Pacotti   Mar 24, 1998   interacts: 5

A woman in Tehran intervenes when her husband becomes a smuggler of alcohol

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