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A Note Left on the Counter
The most intimate things were always ordinary. That’s how they survived. Continue reading
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On the Days When Writing Won’t Let Me In
There are days when writing feels like entering a dim room before anyone has opened the curtains. The silence is heavy, the air unmoved. Still I sit, trying to name the thing inside me that insists on being shaped, even when the shaping feels impossible. Continue reading
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The Quiet Path Beneath the Autumn Sun
I walked beneath the quiet blaze of autumn at Jardin Botanique de Montréal, where light, color, and earth gathered in gentle harmony. The forest asked for nothing. The path simply welcomed each step, and I raised my camera in gratitude for a beauty that lives without question. 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 