Aesha Amin

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“ Ten for you, Twenty-six for me” by Aesha Amin

⭐️ Shortlisted for Contest #151

The metro I take to work, the polluted air of Mumbai, the faces I smile at and the faces that don’t smile back— they are stained a coffee-brown. The same color as old pages and medieval fables. The lives lived in abandoned childhood homes. Memories turned cinder. The air inside the all-women compartment threatens to asphyxiate me; smoke whisks into oxygen as cigarettes burn against already scorched fingers of these strangely familiar women surrounding me. The word crowded has no meaning here. An open seat is rare and silence a chim...

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Aesha (she/her)

Shortlisted 1 story ⭐️

Contest #151
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