Prose
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Before the Noise
A quiet short story about digital noise, modern life, and the small act of reclaiming silence in a world that never stops asking for attention. Continue reading
contemporary fiction, creative writing, digital minimalism, digital noise, disconnection, existential fiction, fiction writing, flash fiction, life online, Literary Fiction, literary minimalism, minimalist fiction, modern life, Prose, quiet fiction, reflective writing, short prose, Short Story, silence, Solitude -
The Smoke Beneath the Pavement
A suffocating city unfolds in haunting fragments—where memories of clarity are buried under smog, crowds blur into noise, and a man searches for something that may never return. Continue reading
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The Alphabet of Smoke
A man in a bureaucratic hallway ventures into a room of bottled regrets, encountering strange rules, smoke-filled objects, and a child with a toy phone. What begins as waiting dissolves into something far stranger—an exchange where time and silence no longer obey their names. Continue reading
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The Room With the Broken Fan
In a town suffocating with heat and sameness, a man wrestles with the stillness that clings to everything. The story captures the quiet desperation of wanting to leave a place that no longer moves, no longer breathes. Continue reading
Shayan Afzal 