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Included in this issue

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| Poetry

| Poetry

| Fiction

| Essay

| Poetry

| Fiction

From the archives

Essay | Ports
by Bassam Sidiki

A handsome attendant rolled me toward my uncle’s SUV. When I had settled into the passenger seat, he said with some emotion in his voice and some pity in his eyes, “Best of luck to you.”

Fiction | Unrest
by Zuneera Shah

for it was foremostly her sadness, then her sister’s, then the two brothers’ and so on, for sadness had to be segmented then distributed then possessed—her spectators kept the first watch. It was only when Zeba finally looked up that the witnesses, sensing in this gesture an invitation, rushed towards her.

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Interview | داستان گوئی : A Conversation with Hammad Rind by Bareerah Ghani

"So, when you go back to the early days of the novel, or even earlier, for example, the work by Boccaccio, Decameron, the ten stories which are being told by these feudal lords and ladies who are confined in a villa outside Florence because of the Black Death. They are telling each other a story to amuse each other."

Poetry | God Rides the Subway on Sundays
by Eleen Raja

I always dreamed of being a home
like all poets for things
that we may never hear outside of water
Could a Tadpole define death?

Poetry | Origin Story
by Javeria Hasnain

All origin stories contain indigeneity
& indigeneity eludes me.

Our people call each other muhajir.
(I am an immigrant in my own city.)

Translations of a poem into a different language by various writers

Urdu to English
ہمیشہ قتل ہو جاتا ہوں میں ۔ جون ایلیاء
notes and translations by Amama Bashir, Javeria Hasnain, Shandana Minhas, Yusra Amjad and Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi

2024: space, and existence in that space

from SEPTEMBER 2024
Poetry
Zinfandel Grapes
by Hibah Shabkhez

from AUGUST 2024
Art
Imam-e-Har Zamaaan
by Balach Khan

from AUGUST 2024
Art
Untitled
by Izza Ali Khan

from JUNE 2024
Poetry
All that could have been said is this
by Fareha Siddiqui

from JUNE 2024
Essay
Language
by Amama Bashir

from MARCH 2024
Poetry
Majlis
by Mirzya Haider

The artwork by "creature" shows two black rotary phones with white dials, one on each end of a horizontal banner, connected by a telephone cord. In the center of the cord are the words Trunk Call in white capital letters. There is a switchboard in the background.
artwork by creature

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