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Here, trying only to be
A verb, a noun, an indifferent simile
Through vanishing pages insurmountable as the Sea


Scratched
Social media and the haunting of an ex-writer-friend. A short story by Areeba Zaidi The Mary Magdalen in Ecstasy (1606) by the Italian artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. This is a picture of it I took at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art in New Delhi I’d been scrolling for so long I’d forgotten what I had clicked on first. I felt ashamed when I’d looked at the clock now. It had been two hours, it was 9:15pm. A thousand words echoed in my head that day, some of them were n

Areeba Zaidi
Jul 2812 min read


Lucknow and I
A city I’ve longed to belong to Caged disorder and melted time A convincing case of prime view Fitting words, manicuring rhyme I meet...

Areeba Zaidi
Feb 27, 20231 min read


Christmas Tree Sentences
It's beginning to look a lot like wisdom Love's a currency in demise Limits are what tie snipped ropes of Ornamental, glittering lies...

Areeba Zaidi
Feb 25, 20231 min read
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