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Creative Non-Fiction
The Devil's Invitation
"Bloody images crowd my mind — the only difference between us is that you choose to hide them. I don't."
Aahana Singh · The Ardee School, New Delhi · India · May 2026
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Creative Non-Fiction
The Tortured Poets' Club
"We're not the only heavy fools who feel this way."
Aahana Singh · The Ardee School, New Delhi · India · May 2026
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Poetry · हिंदी
लगाव के घाव — Wounds of Attachment
"आप तो शाम ढलते ही ज़ेहन में आते हैं, हरे घाव पर मरहम-सा लग जाते हैं।"
Eknoorjeet Kaur · St. Joseph's Convent School, Ferozepur Cantt · Punjab, India · June 2026
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Poetry · हिंदी
इनाम — Reward
"खामोशी ने भी अब जवाब देना छोड़ दिया — Even silence has stopped answering now."
Eknoorjeet Kaur · St. Joseph's Convent School, Ferozepur Cantt · Punjab, India · June 2026
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Creative Non-Fiction
The Question That Wouldn't Leave Me
"Once you notice an inconsistency like that, it becomes difficult to unsee."
Advika Pandey · International School Almere · Almere, Netherlands · June 2026
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Personal Essay
Two Cents and Sentiments on Anger
"Perhaps anger is what loneliness becomes when it has nowhere else to go."
Sybil Guia Singson · Ateneo de Manila Senior High School · Philippines · June 2026
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Poetry · हिंदी
कश्मकश — Dilemma
"इस कश्मकश का जवाब पता होता तो कोई शायर बनता क्यों?"
Eknoorjeet Kaur · St. Joseph's Convent School, Ferozepur Cantt · Punjab, India · June 2026
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Personal Essay
Things I Miss...
"Not the doll. Not the toys. Not even those afternoons. I miss her."
Shreya · SS International Public School · Haryana, India · June 2026
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Poetry
Hair holds memories, you say?
"Every inch, a season / Every split end, a proof."
Pranjal Singh · N.K. Bagrodia Public School · Delhi, India · June 2026
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Poetry · Suite
I Held Out My Hands And He Gave Me The Sun.
"not worship, but the wanting. the waiting. the wound you don't stop touching just to make sure it still hurts."
Aaranya Rakhunde · Narayana Vidyalayam, Chinchbhuvan · Nagpur, India · June 2026
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Poetry · اردو
ہار اے دل — Defeat of the Heart
"Will we ever be together at all?"
Eknoorjeet Kaur · St. Joseph's Convent School, Ferozepur Cantt · Punjab, India · June 2026
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Opinion & Analysis
Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan
"A society flourishes when all its citizens are allowed to learn, work, and dream without fear."
Eknoorjeet Kaur · St. Joseph's Convent School, Ferozepur Cantt · Punjab, India · June 2026
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Poetry
The Dilemma
"He who knows his own soul has already touched the divine."
Saanvi Mishra · The Mother's International School · New Delhi, India · June 2026
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Poetry · ਪੰਜਾਬੀ · Ghazal
ਦੁਆ — Prayer
"Everyone comes and sits beneath the shade — but only a rare person stands firm in the storm."
Sarbjeet Goldie · Panjab University, Chandigarh · Ferozepur, Punjab, India · June 2026
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Poetry · ਪੰਜਾਬੀ · Ghazal
ਸਵਾਲ — Question
"The pen was lost — darkness stole it from the hands of light."
Sarbjeet Goldie · Panjab University, Chandigarh · Ferozepur, Punjab, India · June 2026
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Personal Essay
Three Strands of Staying
"Long before I learned how to leave, my Mama taught me how to carry home."
Stephanie Fernandez · Visayas State University · Negros Occidental, Philippines · June 2026
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Flash Fiction
The Perfect Wife
"Everything had to be perfect."
Saanvi Mishra · The Mother's International School · New Delhi, India · June 2026
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Creative Non-Fiction
When The Spirit Finds The Lighthouse
"the anchor was never the island — it had always been the spirit."
Aahana Singh · The Ardee School · New Delhi, India · May 2026
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Poetry
Maybe This is Growing Up
"There are people I miss for no dramatic reason — because my days used to include them, and now they don't."
Ranveer · Delhi National Public School · Gurugram, India · May 2026
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Poetry
the place I crawled back to.
"as if every wound in me still believed mercy lived there."
Yuktha P.L · Christ University · Bengaluru, India · May 2026
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Short Fiction
Lilith
"Something I buried with my own hands refused to stay buried."
Fiana Islam · East West University · Dhaka, Bangladesh · May 2026
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Poetry · Suite
Ordinary Devotions
"she tells herself this is not pretending. / just… arranging."
Aaranya Rakhunde · Narayana Vidyalayam, Chinchbhuvan · Nagpur, India · May 2026
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Short Fiction
The Light On
"For Kartik it was still the language his thoughts moved in when he was tired."
Sumit Chauhan · United States · May 2026
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Poetry · हिंदुस्तानी
Tera Zikar — Your Presence in Every Word
"You are like the fragrance of rain that cannot be seen, yet is felt in every emotion."
Samprita Badhei · Sambalpur University · Odisha, India · May 2026
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Poetry
Hiraeth
"Sunday morning breakfasts, the 'stupid' pocket money, and your diaries are all that's left to cherish."
Samridhi Priya · Delhi Public School, Ranchi · Jharkhand, India · May 2026
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Poetry · ਪੰਜਾਬੀ
ਉਡੀਕਾਂ — Longing
"There is not a single night in whose dreams you do not appear."
Eknoorjeet Kaur · St. Joseph's Convent School, Ferozepur Cantt · Punjab, India · May 2026
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Poetry · ਪੰਜਾਬੀ
Hawa da Paigam — Message of the Wind
"Love has undone many Ghalibs before me."
Eknoorjeet Kaur · St. Joseph's Convent School, Ferozepur Cantt · Punjab, India · May 2026
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Poetry · हिंदुस्तानी
Kaise Bayaan Karun Meri Baatein… — How Do I Give Words to What I Feel…
"You are my confusion, and the resolution hidden within it too."
S.smita Sayaanaa · Independent Literature Student · Odisha, India · May 2026
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Poetry
I Found the Nectar in My Mind
"It dims, it dims, shines the grimmest grim — It's in, solely in."
Ishita Roy · Sarojini Naidu College for Women, Dum Dum · West Bengal, India · May 2026
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Poetry
Waiting for Rain
"But still / I sat there waiting / Knowing it will rain."
Rishika · JECRC University, Jaipur · India · May 2026
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Creative Non-Fiction
Midnight Revelations
"All I ask for is for someone to look closely enough, and to be able to see me without the need for an explanation."
Aahana Singh · The Ardee School, New Delhi · India · May 2026
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Poetry
What It Feels on the Other Side
"You choose what feels easy, / Not what feels real."
Shrinikka B · Yuvabharathi Public School, Coimbatore · India · May 2026
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Poetry · हिंदी
यादों की महक — Fragrance of Memories
"The farther I drifted away from you, the more your memories became entwined with mine."
Eknoorjeet Kaur · St. Joseph's Convent School · Punjab, India · May 2026
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Poetry · Shayari · हिंदी
दिल के टुकड़े — Pieces of the Heart
"I handed the key of my heart to a thief."
Eknoorjeet Kaur · St. Joseph's Convent School · Punjab, India · May 2026
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Poetry
To The Moon
"Someone shields them from the human eye, / Someone so divine."
Krishnapriya · PM Shri Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 2, Belagavi · Karnataka, India · May 2026
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Poetry
My Part of the Story
"But I'm still hoping / That someday I'll stop nodding, / And talk, my part of the story."
Shrinikka B · Yuvabharathi Public School · India · May 2026
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Poetry
I know one thing, You'll never stay
"I'll be the night born from evening, / I'll stay with the light you'll provide me to shine."
Shruti Soni · Poornima University · India · May 2026
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Poetry
An Earthly Mist
"These hurdles are hard to cross. / And so is the river."
Aaradhya Chaudhary · New Doon Blossoms School · India · May 2026
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Poetry
The Genesis Of A(I)
"Here I am, the intangible human, / Whom you love to hate the most."
Debabrita Dhar · India · May 2026
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Poetry
Red
"I see red now — the colour of truth I tried to hide."
Avni Devlal · New Doon Blossoms School · India · May 2026
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Poetry
Beyond the Smile
"She shrunk, spoke in signs, / All because of the lies."
Shrinikka B · Yuvabharathi Public School · India · May 2026
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Literary Essay
The Grammar of Grief: Ghalib, Jaun Elia, and the Inheritance of Despair
"A grammar of grief, passed across more than a century, by a tradition that found ways to remember itself through a partition."
Sumit Chauhan · United States · May 2026
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Poetry · हिंदी / اردو
Guman — गुमान
"Are you real, or merely an illusion I created? / That is the only question I carry."
Eknoorjeet Kaur · St. Joseph's Convent School · India · May 2026
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Poetry · Triptych
Flesh over Flesh
"the craving for finality / mistaken for / flesh."
Sriyukta · University of Lucknow · India · May 2026
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Poetry
Mulberries
"some berries raw, some fully ripe, / some burst like memories now — / smiles we never knew were temporary."
Shaunak (Aeon) Pathak · Vellore Institute of Technology · India · May 2026
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Poetry
This Is Not Our Last Goodbye
"The walls whispered goodbye, / I hugged the pillars and cried."
Riddhima Negi · St. Francis School, Indirapuram · India · May 2026
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Poetry
Pluvial Resurrection
"The falling drops kissing the warm, waiting earth. / Dusty paths turn dark and fragrant."
Anubhuti Baral · Rajendra University, Balangir · India · May 2026
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Poetry
Glory
"Maybe the winner and the so-called lost / Both light the same cigarette at the same cost."
Kanak · St. Francis School · India · May 2026
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Poetry
Dove: A Monologue
"You write with my whites, your chapters / What if nature collapses minutes within?"
Ankitarani Deep · Rajendra University, Balangir · India · May 2026
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Short Fiction
One Sentence That Changed Me
"Sometimes, one sincere sentence spoken with love and belief is enough to rebuild a broken heart."
Gulsanam Mamasiddiqova · Andijan State University · Uzbekistan · May 2026
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Personal Essay
On Certainty
"Perhaps we cannot be too certain about uncertainty either, because if we are, would curiosity not be killed all over again?"
Astha Priyadarsini Thati · Central University of Odisha · India · May 2026
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Poetry
Special
"Like dust can't stop falling for the books in the shelf / Like flowers cannot resist the sun"
Aratrika · Burdwan Model School · India · May 2026
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Poetry
The Little Girl
"She was the moon, with no tide to pull. / Her chest echoed like an abandoned hall."
Sharanya Dan · Burdwan Model School · India · May 2026
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Personal Essay
The Book That Stayed While I Learned to Leave
"They were never only about the story. They were about the version of you who was reading them."
Nehal Sharma · Symbiosis Center for Management Studies · India · May 2026
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Personal Essay
The Habit of You
"So maybe all it deserves is an essay I'm too afraid to let anyone read."
Pranjal Singh · N.K. Bagrodia Public School · India · May 2026
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Personal Essay
Paris Sucked, But You Made It Better
"It didn't matter that Paris itself was underwhelming, because I spent it with my dad."
Chelsie Grajales · Adelphi University · United States · May 2026
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Prose Poetry
The Departed Chapter
"This departed chapter of her shall forever remain the soul of my lifeless body."
Abdul Wasey Khan · Abbottabad Public School · Pakistan · May 2026
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Poetry · English · اردو
Hasrat-E-Deedar — حسرت دیدار
"a door with a lock / yet lost its key / a key only restored by its دیدار"
Abdul Wasey Khan · Abbottabad Public School · Pakistan · May 2026
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Personal Essay · मराठी
Ganraya — गणराया
"After waiting a whole year, the golden day rises — and within it, how those ten days pass, one cannot tell."
Viksha Yeshodar Poojary · Shankar Narayan College · India · May 2026
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Poetry
Silence Between Generations
"He gave me a vibrant smile, / Silence burning through a thousand miles."
Akshita · Ashok Hall Girls' Higher Secondary School · India · May 2026
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Poetry
After you
"Not everything lost is meant to leave, / Some memories are how we breathe."
Eknoorjeet Kaur · St. Joseph's Convent School, Ferozepur · India · May 2026
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Poetry
a spurious chat
"you remain. / if not a being, a program. / feeding on our lives, our resources, / our affection."
Sophia Passar · Napa Valley College · United States · April 2026
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Essay · From Silsila
The Lamp and the Dust
"Mir, Ghalib, and the Inheritance of Permission."
Sumit Chauhan · United States
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Opinion & Analysis
The Nuclear Paradox & The NTG Doctrine
"We have spent eighty years treating nuclear weapons as a political problem. They are, in reality, a systems-design problem. And we have not yet built the system capable of solving them."
Sumit Chauhan · United States · April 2026
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Poetry
Elegy for the Moon
"This is a haiku, inspired by Madeline Miller's The Song of Achilles — the knowing feeling where we g"
Phthia Moira · The Emerald Heights World School, Indore · India
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Short Fiction
The Itch
""The Itch" is a glimpse into the life of a girl who wants to be out of her body, but doesn't know ho"
Raya El-Hajjar · Marquette University, Milwaukee · United States
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Poetry
The Poet Anarchy
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Manal Ayesha · Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh · India
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Poetry
Of the Two Lustres
"One finally thought of resting,"
Phthia Moira · The Emerald Heights World School, Indore · India
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Poetry
Lines Written Beneath a Ceiling Fan
"I looked up and it was blue"
Ankitarani Deep · Rajendra University, Balangir · India
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Poetry
Mother
"Sometimes only the thought of yours bathes my cheeks with rolling tears,"
Ishita Roy · Sarojini Naidu College for Women, Dum Dum · India
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Personal Essay
English Teacher's Daughter
""You're the English teacher's daughter. How can you not understand English?""
Amanda Bissoli Torres · Escola Canadense de Brasília, Brasília · Brazil
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Poetry
The New Favorite
"She looks great in my clothes, at least that's what everybody says,"
Sanvi Rai · National Public School, Bangalore · India
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Poetry
Threads of a Poem
"A poem, a whisper, a flickering light,"
Foxglove Ink · Chhattisgarh · India
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Poetry
Two Hearts in Moonlight
"Two hearts in moonlight—"
Sumit Chauhan · United States
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Poetry
The War Within
"My heart questions every act I do,"
Shrinikka B · Yuvabharathi Public School, Coimbatore · India
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Creative Non-Fiction
Braids
""Is your hair dry now?" Mom asked. "No!" I lied. "Braid your hair as soon as they dry!" Her tone left no room for…"
Amruta Mone · Vidya Vijay Bal Mandir, Madhya Pradesh · India
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Poetry
El Dorado of My Heart, Calcutta
"Oh, my Calcutta—"
Khushi Bose · Ashok Hall Girls' Higher Secondary School, Kolkata · India
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Short Fiction
The Myth of Apollo and Hyacinthus
"Flowers are not known for telling stories. More often, it is the Muses who bear the responsibility of proclaiming…"
Helena Marques · Colégio Olimpo, Brasília · Brazil
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Poetry
A Piece That Stayed
"I do not frame this piece, yet it returns like clockwork,"
Shanvi Sagar · Indraprastha Global School, Uttar Pradesh · India
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Creative Non-Fiction
you had a before
"dear you,"
Aaranya Rakhunde · Narayana Vidyalayam, Chinchbhuvan · Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
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Flash Fiction
Needles on Tongue
"Originally born out of a time-bound writing exercise on a night on a train, this piece explores the uncanniness of the l"
Sriyukta · University of Lucknow · India
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Poetry
Οἶκος
"Have you ever wondered if everyone has the same description of home? For me it's my poems; for Odysseus it was Penelope"
Phthia Moira · The Emerald Heights World School, Indore · India
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Creative Non-Fiction
The Home I Never Missed
"This piece is about the feeling of leaving behind a home I never quite missed — the relief of moving away, and the ache"
Whispers of Thoughts · Ch. Devi Lal College of Pharmacy, Jagadhri, Haryana · India
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Creative Non-Fiction
Sobremesa
"This piece is about Sobremesa — a Spanish word for the time loved ones spend talking at the table after a meal. In a wor"
Whispers of Thoughts · Ch. Devi Lal College of Pharmacy, Jagadhri, Haryana · India
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Creative Non-Fiction
inheritance
"I don't think I set out to write about my parents. I set out to write about a purple potato, an avocado seed I once crie"
Aaranya Rakhunde · Narayana Vidyalayam, Chinchbhuvan · Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
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Haiku
The Same Moon
"Miles between us stretched—"
Sumit Chauhan · United States
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Haiku
Cold of Winter
"Winter branches bare—"
Sumit Chauhan · United States
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Creative Non-Fiction
The Dark Night
"This piece is about a dark night by the sea — the darkness that surrounds us and the darkness within, and how a dim stre"
Whispers of Thoughts · Ch. Devi Lal College of Pharmacy, Jagadhri, Haryana · India
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Poetry
Ordinary Afternoons
"Ordinary Afternoons is a free verse poem that captures the quiet beauty and uncertainty of adolescence through the eyes"
Umer Ali · MCDC, Karachi · Pakistan
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Creative Non-Fiction
My Coffee Mug
"I often jot down small, everyday observations, trying to make deeper sense of the thoughts they leave behind. This piece"
Twinkle Tomar · Manipal Institute of Technology · India
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Flash Fiction
Six Seconds
"I often find myself wondering how quickly life can change. "Six Seconds" came from exploring the idea that a single flee"
Ginny Drake · Troy University, Kansas City · United States
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Poetry
the body tells its shadow goodbye
"This poem imagines a conversation between a body and its shadow at the moment they are asked to part: one accepts the im"
Aaranya Rakhunde · Narayana Vidyalayam, Chinchbhuvan · Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
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Short Fiction
Sunflower Seeds
"The red lining of stitches felt like trouble to Josh. He was holding his mitt and ball and, in the seat, next to him…"
Amalia Biallosterski · New York · United States
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Poetry
After Us, Our Home Still Bloomed
"This poem is a personal reflection on the end of a relationship, written while looking back on someone who taught me to"
Shreya Shivani · Stella Maris College, Chennai · India
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Poetry
three colours of the unsighted
"Before we learn the names of colours, perhaps we learn their feelings. This is a small attempt to describe three colours"
Aaranya Rakhunde · Narayana Vidyalayam, Chinchbhuvan · Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
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Poetry
Once a Home
"Once a Home was inspired by the quiet realization that a home is more than its walls — it is the people who fill it with"
Khushi Bose · Calcutta · India
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Poetry
To Sleep: Perchance to Dream: Ay, there's the Rub
"I wrote this poem the morning after a restless night, as is common for me. May it bring rest to the weary."
Sebastian Records · Safety Harbor · United States
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Short Fiction
Death Banquet: The Modern Symposium
"I wrote this piece after I was inspired by reading Plato's The Symposium, and thought it would make a great single-set s"
Daniel Coleman · Drexel University, Drexel Hill · United States
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Short Fiction
Household Behaviors
"I poured a large cup of chamomile from the porcelain teapot for myself, then poured a smaller cup for Henrietta. Otis…"
Ashley Sleicher · Stony Brook University, New York · United States
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Poetry
The End of the Infinite
"Anant Ka Ant is a philosophical poem built upon a simple question: if Ravana dies every year, why do his ten heads keep"
Harsh Sawlani · Bengaluru, Karnataka · India
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Poetry
The Window
"The Window is a narrative poem told through allegory, exploring the quiet pull of returning to what repeatedly undoes us"
City of Stars · Mahila College, Godda, Jharkhand · India
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Poetry
Lessons of Vahanas
"We bow before Ganesha,"
Yashaswi Meshram · Nagpur, Maharashtra · India
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Poetry
Lime
"I was forewarned ,"
Sania Khatun · St. Xavier's College, Burdwan, Kolkata · India
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