Iraj Toosy

Iraj Toosy is a student from Lahore, Pakistan. She likes to write in her spare time.

It is Saturday.
I am being pushed and shoved out of bed.
I wake up to the sound of crushing ice
only to realize a plastic bag’s shifted

In ‘Making a Fist’ (1952), Naomi Shibab Nye recalls the time she was seven years old, on the road north to Tampico (Mexico). Nye recalls feeling as if life was sliding out of her. The young girl believes she has had a taste of death.

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