Hijjab Shah

Joined May 2022

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The Book of Red Strings
There weren't always dragons in the Valley. But curiously, there were always other fabled beasts, too, and the people that lived within those verdant forests called them dragons, or fürors in their mother tongue.
By Hijjab Shah4 years ago in Fiction
A Mind of Your Own
Hey Mom. I never told you this before, but... on that fateful night, I had a dreadful dream about our future as a family together. Much like déjà vu, my mind had forgotten the endless love that we shared and cared for. It had also imprisoned my eyelids in an involuntary state of nervous rippling, as if caught in an immobilising spell of suspended memory replays. When they finally popped open, I vaguely remembered the events in which I had lost you to the depths of this familiar velvety darkness that consumed you entirely and so unsparingly. In my wake, I could not save you from the demons that you were so enraptured by. The only stark detail that I can dredge up is the moment you were sprawled on the floor in your usual drunken stupor, completely unaware and steeped in your drenched, soiled pajamas.
By Hijjab Shah4 years ago in Confessions