The Tale: Way before the first selfie the ancient Greeks and Romans had a myth about someone a little too obsessed with his own image. In one telling, Narcissus was a handsome guy wandering the world in search of someone to love. After rejecting a nymph named Echo, he cuaught a glimpse of his own…
Brothers bond as one carries the other on his shoulders, causing the younger to erupt in laughter out of happiness. Their bond is a gift from the Almighty to their humble souls.
Fabia Shahzadi Fabia is reluctant yet brilliant writer who likes to take on any challenges thrown at her. She is too sweet to be true and we believe she has some deep secret which makes her that way! “Maybe next time you could at least try to be slightly more cautious when circling a revolving…
Samiul Bashar Samin The writer is a literary legend and a rockstar. He also believes that he lies to overcompensate as he hasn’t achieved anything in life As kids, my sister Cassie and I didn’t know we were different. How could we? We spent all of our time in the house. Our parents never…
Nobonita Chowdhury Nobonita is a college bound Bangladeshi preppie (two words that you probably never thought you’d see beside each other) who likes headbanging to musical scores and travelling when she has the time, money and friends for it. I find myself sitting in an airplane, praying for it to take off. My heart is…
Muhtasim Fuad Fuad is passionate about all sorts of art- music, writing, painting. His nickname is Zeet. He is currently struggling with pre-puberty mustache It looked like an “A”. “A for Apple, B for Ball and C for Cat,” children replied in chorus as Mrs. Hatcher employed her utmost effort to teach children the alphabets….
By Nusrat Jahan Progga What many people fail to understand is that little problems also matter. Not every speech or every article written has to be about a big obvious issue of the society, that is printed as newsflashes every here and there. This article is going to talk about a few words that affect…
By Sheikh Mohammad Fahim The first step towards recovering from issues is realizing that there is one in the first place. Life has taught us in an extraordinary fashion that avoiding some problems is perhaps the best thing you can possibly do when confronted with one. However, unlike the day to day problems that present…
You are so familiar with your coffee stains. You know them like the curves of your palm. You know the caramel splash that inaugurated the first notepad of a set you bought with your pay from a short story you published last year. You know the droplets of mocha latte that fell every few seconds…
Shulokhana J. Khan The writer is a Dean List Scholar, a student of Intensive Writing and Literature at the New School for Liberal Arts in NY. She has a vast knowledge on contempory and modern literature, especially modern American Literature. She also works on Modern Drama The Queen lay awake on her bed and watched…