Tariq Ahmad
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The Girl Who Drew Doors
She discovered the gift at seven, crouched on the kitchen floor with a stub of crayon, drawing a rectangle on the wall. When she tugged the doorknob she’d scribbled in the middle, the plaster dissolved into a warm, cinnamon-scented room that belonged to her grandmother. Grandma had died two years earlier. The room was just as it had been—rocking chair, knitting basket, the faint radio static of a long-silenced station. Amelia stepped through, touched the armrest, and cried with relief. When she returned to the kitchen, the drawing vanished.
By Tariq Ahmad5 months ago in Fiction
The Clockmaker’s Daughter
He promised to come back from the war. The river kept the secret of whether he did. Every dawn for three years I walked to the banks of the Liriope, where the fog hung low and the water whispered like a confidant. I carried his last letter in my coat pocket, creased and soft from being read so often the words were fading: “I’ll return with the spring floods, Mara. Wait for me.”
By Tariq Ahmad5 months ago in Fiction
The Stranger Who Knew My Name. Content Warning. AI-Generated.
I still remember the evening it all began. It was early autumn, the kind of night when the air feels crisp, and the streets glow faintly under the flicker of old street lamps. I had just left the bookstore, clutching a novel I had been waiting to read, when I felt the distinct sensation of being watched.
By Tariq Ahmad5 months ago in Fiction
