Fatima and Aabid, two young adults interned in The Xinjiang re-education camps in China for their religion, Islam, struggle to survive amongst disaster. Finding each other, they find hope in a place that seeks to instill fear and endurance. The love they share keeps both of them alive, helping them survive in the darkness that […]
Story Gone Unwritten
This is for you. Your name holds a heaviness that lingers just long enough for me to question whether I miss you or the idea of you. Nostalgia, for sure. What I can’t seem to decipher is whether I am able to taste the poison the coldness your actions left or if that is the […]
Dear Aurora: Bow View Manor Poem
Written by Sarah & I, with love. Smile constantly plastered on your face. Thinking back on all the good things. Remembering the little faces smiling at you, While you are teaching them all the joys of life. Patience and love as you think of life and what it has blessed you with. Blessed with 20 […]
Stuck with Weeds, Hoping for Flowers
If you do not pull the weeds from the garden: flowers will never grow. I kept pulling, hoping one day soon, all would disappear. I want flowers to bloom: I really do. 6 would grow in the place of the one I thought I had conquered. Each morning, I waited for the rain […]
Dear Rodney Reed: A Spoken Word
Dear Rodney Reed, I am sorry this system has failed you once again. I am sorry you are paying for a crime you did not commit, but more than that… I am sorry your life is on the line because people in positions of power are unable to see beyond the colour of your skin. […]
Always a Maybe, Never a Must.
I wish you all the best this world can give: I do. What never was, what could have been, was more to me than anything else. I asked for love, and you answered. What I didn’t know, was the love I really needed- the love I should’ve been hoping against hope for- was for myself. […]
Success, Life and Living: Advice for the Average Person
In this, you will find two pieces of advice from highly successful people explained from my point of view for the average person. A short how-to on improving the life you live, from various aspects. “When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favour.” Elon Musk We […]
Red Nail Polish
june 3rd, 1986. You were in all the old records I listened too, my favourite character in each book I read, and the landmark of each place I visited. It always felt right. Somehow, I have never met you. Your name is a whisper I can’t quite make out. Your face is […]
if loving you kills me tonight: a monologue
Isabella, a 21-year-old has just spent the last 3 years with her supposed soul mate. Soon, he is no longer the same man who showered her with the gentlest and purest of loves, but rather a man unable to control the violent winds that possess his being, unleashing a hurricane of pain and desolation upon […]
a storm
you were the kindest thing that ever happened to me, even if that is not how our tale is told. when everyone else told me i was destined to be a forgotten nymph; that nurtured flowers and turned meadows gold, you saw that the ichor that resides in me demanded its own throne. you showed […]