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The Yellow Wallpaper by Zohra Hussain

Posted on Aug 28, 2019Sep 22, 2019 by Zohra Hussain

We created a version of ourselves that we could stomach, peeled the yellow wallpaper and brazenly fell in love with the madness we mistook for magic.

Quiet Magic by Zohra Hussain

Posted on May 5, 2019Jul 18, 2019 by Zohra Hussain

Sometimes I feel like I’m drifting: in outer space, through life. I can’t keep up with myself because I am more lost than wanderer. Oh, but you with your whimsical lines, “we are cosmically bound to each other by the stardust in our bones,” make the universe shift so, I am reminded that home is […]

With Love by Zohra Hussain

Posted on Feb 20, 2019May 2, 2019 by Zohra Hussain

I know you still dream of space, as if there’s more hope where the stars are and no distance between us. I’m sorry I had to leave. We both know making homes in heartbeats only lead to clichés, like standing outside your window, crying in the rain. I swear, in another life, it’s us who […]

Untitled by Zohra Hussain

Posted on Apr 17, 2018Apr 16, 2018 by Zohra Hussain

In the midst of long distance and confessionals with the moon, (to my heart) a star asks: “when did you stop believing in yourself?”

Every Little Thing by Zohra Hussain

Posted on Dec 30, 2017Apr 16, 2018 by Zohra Hussain

This story is one of the November Writing Challenge entries chosen to be a featured story. . In the room they fell in love, sunlight creeps in through a dewy window as the smell of herbs lingers in the air. Their song plays on an old radio – melodic and broken from the static: ‘every […]