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Friday April 19, 2024
Laraib Zakir

  • March 06, 2020

    Too early to leave

    Tonight, I feel as if winter is leaving. I ask if it’s too early and it whispers with such tranquility that melancholy settles all over me....

  • November 22, 2019

    Late November

    During the last days of November when divine melancholy blends in the crimson horizons, she waits for the dawn and dusk, simultaneously.....

  • October 04, 2019

    The name. The thought. The fear

    And with the name, with the thought, comes the fear, inevitably and unapologetically...

  • September 20, 2019

    The creases of her hands

    Caught by another vulnerable glint, this wreckage of mirror reeked of serenity as she placed herself near it....

  • March 08, 2019

    The crimson palette

    Shattered. The trembling hands, trying to recover the strength they once had.....

  • July 20, 2018

    Readers’ algorithms

    The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.....

  • June 15, 2018

    Eid and us

    Originally, I sat down to pen down a typical day of Eid in a Pakistani’s life; however, with the passage of time....

  • April 13, 2018

    What a charade

    Pulling back the satin curtains, she sat back on her bed, sipping the morning delight, her lips curved into a sinister smile....