rude – MAGAZINE

I’m Not Rude, I’m Just Quiet

Posted on Jul 31, 2017Oct 30, 2017 by Masooma Memon

A group of friends sit together, giggling and tittering over idle gossip. Bouts of laughter strike sometimes, and all of them snicker over some joke. Each one of the girls contributes in telling her narrative. One, however, remains silent. Not in a harmful sense, though, because she pitches in her participation by bursting into laughter […]

Four Feet Across by Alexis Campbell

Posted on Aug 13, 2015Feb 11, 2019 by Alexis Campbell

“Do you think she can hear us?” There’s some snorting laughter behind me, but my back is to them. Somehow my brain was triggered awake at this exact moment, like an interior alarm alerting me of the impending mental attack. I’m conscious enough to process the question posed behind me in the dark, and to […]