Khan Zada

Joined July 2025

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How to Ready a Book for the World
I Thought Writing the Book Was the Hard Part When I finished my first draft, I felt invincible. I stared at those 60,000 words like I had just climbed Everest in a lightning storm—barefoot. It felt like a triumph. But it wasn’t long before that victory began to unravel. Because writing a book is only the beginning.
By Khan Zada6 months ago in Humans
Letters Never Sent
There’s a kind of silence that lingers not in the air, but in the soul—a silence made of unsaid words, unopened envelopes, and feelings that were too heavy to carry out loud. I’ve lived in that silence. I’ve grown around it like ivy crawling up an old wall, holding on to things that were never said. This is a story of letters never sent—words I wrote with trembling hands and a heart too afraid to speak them.
By Khan Zada6 months ago in Photography
Painted Skies and Promises
Most love stories begin in cafés, bookstores, or between crowded conversations. Ours began in a sunset. Not in a poetic, scripted kind of way, but in the real, messy, breathtaking way that only life can orchestrate when you're least expecting it.
By Khan Zada6 months ago in Fiction
The Peace of Tilsit, When Empires Paused Their Fury
We often think of history as a long, unbroken line of battles and victories, of fallen empires and rising powers. But sometimes, the most defining moments aren’t the wars themselves—but the rare, fragile pauses between them. One such moment came 218 years ago, on the quiet banks of the Neman River, where two great empires—France and Russia—temporarily laid down their weapons.
By Khan Zada6 months ago in History