Bismillah Achakzai
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Echoes of Earth
Year: 2101 — Mars Colony, City of Gravehold The red sun of Mars bled through the horizon like a dying ember, staining the metallic city of Gravehold in shades of gold and rust. Beneath its vast energy dome, the city pulsed with artificial life — floating trams glided through corridors of glass, and drones weaved between towers that reached for a sky no human could breathe.
By Bismillah Achakzai4 months ago in Humans
"Buried Beneath Their Feet"
He Just Wanted to Go Home: A True Story from Mazal Gali It happened not in war, not in a storm, but in the crush of human desperation—on a dusty stretch of earth called Mazal Gali, near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. A place where dreams gather and die quietly, unseen.
By Bismillah Achakzai8 months ago in Humans
Dust And Dreams
In the dusty border town of Chaman, where Pakistan meets Afghanistan, a silence has fallen heavier than the scorching heat. It is not the kind of silence that comes from peace, but the kind that seeps in when livelihoods disappear, when the gates that once connected families and futures are suddenly locked. Amid this silence, a boy named Khalid pushes his rusted wheelbarrow through the winding alleys of a town held hostage by border politics.
By Bismillah Achakzai8 months ago in Humans
