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Kashmir autumn poem
Belles Lettres

Tonight, Let me Write!

Tonight, let me write!/Let me write/Of the hopeful eyes/And the desperate souls,/Of the severed limbs,/And the silenced songs,

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Poem by Sadaf Munshi illustration Pxfuel
Belles Lettres

Poem: This is No Dream

I went sleepless and troubled/ Hiding under my pallid skin/As a thick blanket of darkness/Enveloped the starless night.

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dead oak wikimedia
Belles Lettres

Fiction: The Dead Oak

The November day was drawing to a close. The shadows were deepening in the pine forest that lay on one

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Edwin Lefèvre short story illustration
Belles Lettres

Fiction: On the Brink

She went up to the gray-haired man and kissed him on the lips, and leaned against him, until he wound his arm about her waist, and she rested her head on his shoulder caressingly; and then she looked defiantly at the young man, who had drawn near.

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Poem on love and affection by Oishi
Belles Lettres

Poem: An Infinite Improbability

The first flutter the first brush, the butterflies the blood rush./I looked away as you did too, me not knowing what to do/
Yet glance at your house I did, hoping I will see you too.

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story about death and artist
Fiction & Poetry

Impressions

After the burial is over, he reaches the riverbend. A bird seems to arrive from nowhere, its wings flailing the water.

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painting of Darjeeling 1948
Belles Lettres

My Own: Poem

While I fear someone will push me off of the edge,/The mountains tell me, “Don’t worry darling, I will catch you”.

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story on COVID
Belles Lettres

The Pulse: Short Fiction

He blanched at the sight of the lifeless body that lay before him. Gaze fixed, he reminisced about his days as a first year medical student…it was the first time he had laid eyes on a corpse.

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