Fiction

Translated from English to Urdu by Anwar Shahid Khan and Taimoor Shahid  

Gautam, of course, was prepared for the pandemic before it even hit. He had become increasingly taken with alternative medicine…

Faint purple liquid advanced along the tube towards his mother’s flesh. Her left hand lay stretched out, palm facing upwards,…

I’ll never forget that evening. I was sitting where the late sun falls on our threshing area, hulling broad beans.…

For as long as I can remember, the written word has allowed me to rest, dream, imagine and forget about…

The first time I passed out, the doctor could not believe that it was the church. He said people go…

A young woman asked a lady in her early fifties, reading the Bhagwad Gita on a bench, how she was.…

Ida’s seven children delivered a theatrical speech and then waited for the ensuing applause. It was a circus performance. Later,…

Health  The state of being free from illness or injury.   A person’s mental or physical condition. Through fiction and non-fiction,…

March 2021 Hi. My name is Ijeoma, and this is the story of my life. Or, I guess I should…

I suppose a third miscarriage warrants a tropical vacation. I suppose when you have been waiting in vain for a…

A prayer call pierced the cool evening air. It had rained, and the street outside was washed clean of the…

Remember To Rest is a collection curated by guest editors Jo Maenzanise, Roopa Farooki and Kevin Mwachiro, in response to…

Inky skies glowed blue at the horizon, and the fish and chip shop slouched in the wide main street. One…

The basant party is the first event Khalida attends as a wife. As a mistress, daytime invitations were seldom extended…

Kingston, Jamaica