Hamayoun Tareen
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The Night My World Turned Upside Down
I was curled up in my favorite armchair, half‑asleep with a mug of lukewarm coffee in hand, when my phone buzzed at 2:47 a.m. The screen lit up with a name I hadn’t thought about in months, and my heart skipped. Four simple words stared back at me: “We need to talk.”
By Hamayoun Tareen 6 months ago in Fiction
WHERE ROOTS REMEMBER YOUR NAME
The Premise: In a coastal town where gardens grow memories, 34-year-old floral genealogist Aris Thorne can touch plants and see their owners’ hidden traumas. Her gift thrives in the greenhouse of Saltwick House—a crumbling estate where flowers bloom from buried secrets. When widower Silas Vale hires her to revive his wife’s poison garden, Aris uncovers a root system preserving his late wife’s final words: “He didn’t mean to kill me.”
By Hamayoun Tareen 6 months ago in Fiction
The Scars That Bloomed When She Left
The burn scars cracked open on a Tuesday. Ellie had been gone for 47 days. I remember peeling off my sweat-soaked shirt after another night of phantom pains—the kind that made my nerves scream like they were still bathed in kitchen flames. That’s when I saw them: thin fissures splitting the mottled skin of my chest, glowing like bioluminescent river deltas. And from those cracks, petals. Crimson roses unfurling slowly, drunkenly, as if waking from a long sleep.
By Hamayoun Tareen 7 months ago in Fiction
