Editor’s Noteby Omair Danish FICTION دھان کی فصلby علی اکبر ناطق God Storyby Irta Usman مونگ پھلیby سید قمر عباس اراجی ESSAYS Five Hundred Words a Day:Creativity in the Time of Monstersby Sakina Hassan Ghuttan: A Sociocultural Illnessby Muhammad Khuzaima Nizami POETRY Monsoon in a Dying Cityby Wania Aijaz Death smells different across the globeby Zuhaa Fayyaz Qureshi گدھby Malaika Rai دل پنجیریby Malaika Rai One Lasting Desire Despite It Allby Fatima Jafar I Know How Jackfruit Tastesby Eisha Tur Raazia We Learned Hunger in Englishby Mahin Wahla F E R A Lby Umayr Aamir Schehrezade Appears in a Drone Operator’s Dreamby Shadab Zeest Hashmi After a deadly aerial engagement, a cup of teaby Shadab Zeest Hashmi A conversation between a woman and the last wild witnessby Zainab Jokhio INTERVIEWS ‘Death & Flowers’: Ali Baluch on Recording the Demise of the Malir Riverby Omair Danish Heirlooms and the Earth: A Conversation with Iman Ahmedby Leena Zaidi The Woman Who Wants Everything: An Interview with Dur e Aziz Amnaby Anum Asi ART & PHOTOGRAPHY untitledby Zehra Haider Basantby Ayesha Shingruf ON THE COVER Tending to the Indoor Garden (detail 3)by Iman Ahmed