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Never Meant to be His
Never meant to say Achilles, Achilles come down Rendition of Aphrodite's daughter Trojan war it's name, Beauty of the golden Helen or...

Manya Wadhwa
1 min read


“I’m My Mother’s Daughter”
(and the stories she knew before I did) I used to believe I was born from my own fire— a spark flung from some lonely star,...

Bhavya Dakavaram
2 min read


The Sun’s Treasurer
Born with naught to call my own, Haunted by dreams to attain treasures; Lustrous stones prosperous and fair, Folly of many a pirate and...

Arkajyoti Roy
2 min read


An OLIVE café:A blissful aromatic life to LIVE with.
“How aromatic life is when the crushed spirit resembles an éclair, offering a delightful burst of love’s mighty flavour. Relax! Sitting...

Cyril George
1 min read


No Prayer Could Save Me Now
TW: S*xual Assault Ash. Smoke. Soot, flaking my scalp. The repulsive stench of blood and lifeless bone suffocated me. I couldn’t...

Saie Sasankar
3 min read


i don't wish to be godforsaken (chainsaw me instead).
my skirts just know how to twirl right, my eyes know how to seduce blazes, my hand knows how to hold my palmlines and creases, and my...

Suhani Srivastava
2 min read


The Days That Weren’t
The sun spilled in through the window like a guiltless intruder, its golden fingers prying open a world he had no wish to enter. The...

Nolonger
1 min read


Still Her
It's her again, she is too far, far away I can still see if she's delighted or in pain. You are inwardly with me, yet physically stray. ...

Deep Raval
1 min read


Fruit of The Womb
The gods are sick of lazy loving and bored mouths sighing names So they were not displeased when I said, “what’s heaven to your lover’s...

Srinjoyee Adhikary
1 min read


The Scroll of Uncertainty: The Art of Saying “I Don’t Know”
In a world where certainty is celebrated, “I don’t know” feels like failure. But what if it’s the beginning of something powerful? ...

Mari Priyadharshini
2 min read


Eyes Never Lie
Even in storm, your eyes don’t lie— I still see the tranquility in your iris. Your glistening eyes hold the place where the answer lies....

ESSI MARIA JOBI
1 min read


Silent Reveries
Silent Reveries: her pov My love, how long have I been waiting for you? I strangle myself in the whorl of my life. Echoes pierce through...

ESSI MARIA JOBI
1 min read


The Boy Who Wouldn’t Bleed
Wendy once flew. Her feet left the ground the night the stars opened their hands and gave her to a boy who smelled of wind and wildness,...

Ash Radison
2 min read


When Grief Wears My Clothes
I didn’t realize how personal grief could get until it started borrowing my clothes. Not metaphorically. I mean… I’d wake up, get...

Christina Dcosta
2 min read


Where the Cracks Let the Light In
They came from silence, from days that forgot their names - hands trembling, hearts chipped, eyes full of thunder and rain. They were not...

Reetu Verma
2 min read


The Ones Who Broke and Kept Walking
In the time before time, before the gods built thrones from stars and the seas remembered their names, there was a land called Tharn. It...

Reetu Verma
5 min read


Durga
On normal days Durga would be chastised and beaten, because the chappati was undercooked or just because she didn’t satisfactorily scrub...

Ashesh Mitra
8 min read


Eucalee
The shunned creature : a poem of two parts Medusa When the god violated her And stripped her of innocence It was her beauty that was...

Sana Parveen
1 min read


Unwritten rules
Morning dawns, I wake, and fold my bed alone. I take on my brother's chores, cook noodles with care. Mom's gentle voice whispers, "Make...

Ramla Fatima
1 min read


The Recipe Book
In the early 2000s, She was a homemaker, or rather a lazy housewife for her husband. He believed she had nothing to do, it was only he...

DP Writes
1 min read

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