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My dream, I live it in a paper coated with crème caramel. I frolic in words of my shadow with the seas, the skies and the lands and tread the dunes of time, touching all the things around me; then settle down over a midnight coffee in the silence of night. Oh, I do attend …
Kashif Choudhry is 28 and lives in Solihull. He spent parts of his childhood in Saudi Arabia before moving to the UK and fulfilling a life long ambition by qualifying as a doctor. He currently works for the NHS. He began writing two years ago. He is a fan of the short story art form …
“Try shrinking your ego and expanding your brain!” she yelled. “Eh? I got a distinction in Physics and a scholarship for my masters…and you’re telling me to expand my brain?” She marched out and slammed the door so hard that I thought the cottage would crumble to the ground. An image rushed to my head …
Anthony Padman was born in Malaya (as it was then called) and educated in schools in Malaya and Singapore. Later, he went for tertiary studies to the United Kingdom. He graduated with a Law Degree from the University of Wales and subsequently called to the English Bar. He has both taught and practised Law in …
Fatima Martin was brought up a Catholic in Austria. She studied Arabic and Islamic Studies at Vienna University during which time she was granted scholarships to learn Arabic in Egypt and Sudan. After graduation she went travelling, ending up in Jerusalem where she met her spiritual teacher deputy mufti of the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Having said …
Anita Khan is 25 and lives in High Wycombe. She works with young people and the community. Her social and political outlook shapes her work and her writing. Anita writes short stories, poetry and articles tackling social issues for a local newsletter. Not in My Name Not in my name, The bloodshed and devastation. Driven …
It was Oscar Wilde that once wrote, ‘All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his’. I’m not sure I quite agree with you Oscar but I’m hardly going to argue with one of the most prolific writers of the 19th century. Mainly because you’re a very intelligent man …
Music has left its cultural confines. You hear the strings of a sitar Mingling with big band sounds. Percussions from Africa Accompanying ragas from Nepal. A never-ending performance of musicians From all over the world. Bollywood dancing workshops at Lörrach, Slam poetry at Freiburg’s Atlantic inn. A didgeridoo accompaning Japanese drums At the Zeltmusik festival. …
After the girl left with her parents, Dad settled in one of the chairs on the balcony and pitched a series of reasons as to why she would make a good wife. She was the daughter of one of his closest friends and, hence, came from a known family. She had been raised in the …
Palo was born in the Punjab but has spent most of her life in the Glasgow area. She began writing three years ago after retiring from local government education department. She is currently writing her first novel as part of a postgraduate degree in creative writing at the University of Strathclyde. This is an extract from her story, …