Novel

Ghalib in the Digital Age: Imagining a Poet on Social Media
Title: Ghalib in the Digital Age: Imagining a Poet on Social Media Subtitle: When the Heart Meets the Screen: Bringing 19th-Century Urdu Poetry into the Modern World
By Khan584 5 months ago in Critique
The Hunchback of Notre Dame is Surprisingly Dark for a Disney Film
I have watched this film about four times now, and I still can't get over how dark this film is. How this movie was approved for children to watch is crazy, but I guess the old Disney didn't really care with whether or not they might traumatize children lol.
By Emy Quinn5 months ago in Critique
The Boy and the Lion
In a small village on the edge of the vast savanna, a boy named Arin had just turned eighteen. In his tribe, this was the age when a boy left behind childhood and stepped into manhood. But tradition demanded more than age — it demanded proof.
By Hammad Ali5 months ago in Critique
Trailer Trash McMansions
Feeling poor? Sometimes it’s a matter of just not being able to land a job with a good pay cheque. Or sometimes it’s a matter of refusing to tolerate corporate bullshit even for a good pay cheque. There is absolutely nothing wrong with being poor.
By Narghiza Ergashova5 months ago in Critique
"What My Grandmother Taught Me Before Goodbye"
My grandmother had a way of turning silence into wisdom. She didn’t speak unless the words mattered. When she did speak, I listened.
By Israr khan6 months ago in Critique
The Boy Who Built His Future With Broken Radios
In the narrow lanes of Lahore’s Anarkali Bazaar, where the noise of motorbikes and street vendors filled the air, lived a boy named Sameer with an unusual obsession—broken radios. While other children collected comic books or played cricket in the alleyways, Sameer scavenged discarded electronics from junk piles. He didn’t know it at the time, but those broken radios would rebuild his entire life.
By Farzad6 months ago in Critique
Tunisian Man Sentenced to Six Months in Jail for Refusing to Listen to President's Speech
In a development that has sparked serious concerns among human rights activists and international observers, a Tunisian citizen has been sentenced to six months in prison for refusing to listen to a televised speech by President Kais Saied. The unusual and controversial sentence, handed down by a local court, has once again brought Tunisia's declining state of freedom of expression under the spotlight.
By Ikram Ullah6 months ago in Critique
🎼 Music: The Language That Speaks When Words Fail . AI-Generated.
Have you ever listened to a song and felt like it was telling your story—without a single word? Music is a universal language, but not in the way we usually think of language. It doesn’t rely on grammar or vocabulary. Instead, it uses rhythm, melody, harmony, and silence to speak directly to our emotions.
By The Yume Collective6 months ago in Critique
🧀 Society of the Human Rats
I feel that society increasingly resembles a house of rodents, in which the luckiest and most fortunate rats —whether due to effort and dedication (because yes, there are rats that truly fought and worked hard to get a good chunk of cheese that allows them to live well and happy in their rat world)— have their place. But there are others who simply had a smart daddy rat who accumulated and accumulated —sometimes selfishly— a great amount of cheese. And there they are, just roaming, eating and spending, and spending, jumping from trap to trap, because they know that the biggest piece is already in their burrow. And they’re not satisfied with the scraps offered in the traps set out for rats in the world.
By Leonardo Alberca7 months ago in Critique
Immigration Policy
Australians are now living an average of a decade longer than we were just ten years ago, with women benefiting the most from this increase in life expectancy, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics' report, Life Expectancy. While this is a remarkable achievement and something we often celebrate, it comes with a sobering reality: our standard of living has significantly declined. Although we may be living longer, many are living lives far poorer than they had envisioned - something the media rarely addresses openly.
By Narghiza Ergashova7 months ago in Critique
Signed and Resigned
I just need enough to be solvent, but that may be hard without rescinding this letter and sacrificing my sanity To those reading my resignation while casually pushing policies that are supposed to impact our work culture, but they never do, I hope you find this letter. I seriously hope that after finding this letter you read it too.
By Narghiza Ergashova7 months ago in Critique
The Roar and the Hee-Haw
In the heart of the Serengeti, where animals roamed free and drama bloomed like wildflowers, there lived a lion named Leo. He was everything you'd expect from a king of the jungle: majestic, strong, a little vain, and absolutely terrible at telling jokes.
By Dr Gabriel 8 months ago in Critique