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Button-Eyed Book

March 31, 2008 | Published in Ramblings

It’s there… it’s there somewhere and she knows it. It is in the way they wait for rain so they can catch a glimpse of the rainbow afterwards. She believes it is there. That is what keeps her going. When she puts the radio on, hums along and she falls back on the melody and [...]

An Old Hindi Melody

Written by Hazan Ozgul

March 31, 2008 | Published in Poems

An old Hindi melody in my ear I wish you could be with me here Yet a lot to share with you As well as many to hear… An old Hindi melody in my ear I don’t know why but I have a fear Losing you one day forever Making me burst into tear… An old Hindi melody in my ear Despite the loneliness [...]

The Air I Breathe

Written by Liana Rojas

March 31, 2008 | Published in Poems

The air I breathe is modest It comes to me shy, uninvited Sometimes it is playful, and explodes In hair, and nails, and teeth And sometimes, it deserts me And for seconds, I toy with the idea of death Or love

Falling Angels of Hope: Part 2

Written by Amir Saleem

March 31, 2008 | Published in Photo Tales

He was seventy one thousand years old; but he wasn’t imperial enough yet, for there were angels who were older than him and still waiting in line. He had traversed the skies but that’s not what he was made to do; his destiny was to descend upon the earth one day in the times of [...]

Memory Across the Street

Written by Hazan Ozgul

March 30, 2008 | Published in Ramblings

Midnight….I had just come out of a movie (Saturno Contro)… I was on the main road, ready to go across, but waiting for the traffic lights to turn green….the light was red…I was feeling the cold wind spreading on my face; cars passing by in front of me with an ultimate speed. All of a [...]

I Love You

Written by Umara Shamim

March 30, 2008 | Published in Poems

For the first time in my life As I felt you Close to me Near to me Oh! So very Dear to me I understood what love meant The way you feel me Embrace me Absorb me Love the way You distort me Silent your words Celestial Expressions Magical tranquillity Like Unborn Heavens You bring to me Pleasures beyond submission Realities beyond illusions You carry my soul And lay it across the wet grass In the [...]

There Has to be an End

Written by Klai Noha

March 30, 2008 | Published in Poems

In a world where a man lets down his principles, forgets about his duties and sells his soul to the devil for a few dimes.. In a world where a woman lets down her shyness, forgets about her honor and sells her body to that man for few dimes.. In a world where a man meets a woman let down their guard, give [...]

Flickering Minds

Written by Amir Saleem

March 29, 2008 | Published in Short Stories

She danced like a wild mare. Her bare feet moved on that solid cold floor unwillingly and unintentionally, out of sheer habit of tapping on the beat of some provocative music. Her hands flickered in asymmetrical motion slitting that thick air filled with cigarette smoke and smell of cheap alcohol. She danced scarcely clad, with her [...]

Another Beginning

Written by Amir Saleem

March 29, 2008 | Published in On Second Thought

I wrote this on one of my birthdays. Dedicated to the memory of my late younger brother, Asim Saleem. A thick silky fog swept through the street that had only one lamp-post to leave a blemish of a light on its hard trodden surface. Beside the lamp-post, rested a lazy bench, having lost one of its [...]

Looking Good, Feeling Fine

Written by Rafia Malik

March 29, 2008 | Published in Articles

I think that looking good has a lot to do with feeling good about yourself and about others. I always knew that the first impression is the last impression that one creates before others which is ever so true and I still believe in that. Unfortunately the world we live in is a place where people [...]