Holiday
The Letter I Was Never Meant to Read
By Nadeem Shah I found the letter by accident. Tucked inside the back of my mother’s worn-out recipe book, behind a page smudged with gravy stains and faint ink scribbles about nutmeg, was an envelope that didn’t belong. It was brittle, yellowed with age, and sealed with a faded wax stamp I didn’t recognize.
By Nadeem Shah 6 months ago in Fiction
The Bookstore That Only Opens at Midnight
he Bookstore That Only Opens at Midnight I stumbled upon it by accident or maybe, as I now believe, it found me. It was just past midnight on a rainy Thursday when I saw a faint light flicker in the corner of an old alley I had walked past a hundred times before. Between two abandoned buildings stood a narrow, ivy-covered doorway with a crooked wooden sign swinging in the wind. It simply read: “Open”.
By Farooq Hashmi6 months ago in Fiction
The Fox Who Filed Complaints
The Fox Who Filed Complaints In the sleepy village of Willowbrook, life moved as slowly as the stream that hummed its gentle lullabies through the pines. The cobblestone streets were soft with moss, the bakery smelled perpetually of cinnamon and warm bread, and the loudest drama anyone could expect was the occasional chicken escaping from Old Man Carter’s yard.
By Malik BILAL6 months ago in Fiction
Kindness Tastes Like Lemon Tea. AI-Generated.
I never liked tea. Not the bitter green kind, not the herbal kind my mom kept insisting would help me “balance out,” and definitely not the flowery ones that tasted like wilted garden petals. But I drank it anyway—every day at 4:15—for nearly four months, sitting at a round table by a window in Mrs. Calloway’s faded yellow kitchen.
By waseem khan6 months ago in Fiction
The Weight of the Empty Chair
The smell of rosemary and pie filled the house, warm and too familiar. Rachel hovered in the doorway between the kitchen and the dining room, a damp dish towel still clutched in her hand. Her mother stood at the head of the table, folding a napkin with slow precision.
By Oula M.J. Michaels6 months ago in Fiction
Spider-Man 4: First Look at Tom Holland’s Brand New Day Suit
Sony Pictures has officially dropped the first teaser for Spider-Man 4, now confirmed to be titled Spider-Man: Brand New Day. This marks the beginning of a brand-new chapter in the Marvel Cinematic Universe for Peter Parker, played once again by Tom Holland. With production gearing up at Pinewood Studios in England, fans are getting their first look at what’s shaping up to be another major Marvel event.
By Dena Falken Esq6 months ago in Fiction
The Letter I Was Never Meant to Read
By Nadeem Shah It was tucked inside the back of an old shoebox—between brittle birthday cards and a black-and-white photo of a woman I didn’t recognize. I wasn’t supposed to find it. But fate has a cruel way of revealing things when you’re least prepared.
By Nadeem Shah 6 months ago in Fiction
