It was not often that I received odd parcels. True, my job at the paper did occasionally warrant a few peculiar hate-mail or rebuttals, but this was nothing of that sort

Nuri had just swallowed a little orange pill dry, when she noticed that the portrait of ‘The Sexual Revolutionary’ had been taken down from the wall of her childhood bedroom.

I woke up with the taste of blood in my mouth

The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 20 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: August

An evening storytelling and writing around the "chimera that is memory", organized by Sister Library and Sehri Tales.

The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 29 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Curtains

The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 21 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Drinks with a Ghost

The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 9 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Little

Besides the brilliantly unconventional addition of an Intelligence Agent as the main audience, the story’s language, unflinchingly charged with a humorous tone, is enough to keep a reader’s eyes glued to the screen.

Zahir uses crows as a symbol of magic realism, as found in local folklore, where animals serve as omens of luck both good and bad. The crows seem to bring bad luck to the couple, and wherever they go, the birds follow.

Khaki is not usually considered a cherished colour. Yet one might become attached to it, especially if it is connected to childhood memories.

A story about a pickpocket