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...

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Aesha (she/her)

Shortlisted 1 story ⭐️

Contest #151
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