Ayesha Ahmed

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“Sirénes” by Ayesha Ahmed

Submitted to Contest #208

Hunger. She feels it thicken the air around her, pulse with anticipation, fix its gaze exactly where she stands. Tokyo salivates behind the curtain, ravenous and eager, a dog with wild appetite and wilder eyes. Behind her, a ghost tries its best to disappear.Yulia Sorensi. The star of tonight’s show. A famed pianist, born for nothing else, hailing from further up North to grant Japan the honour of being home to her Asian debut. And…her daughter.Olena fidgets, not for the first time this evening. Tonight’s show must be perfect. It cannot...

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A college student and aspiring writer, hailing from a family of doctors and medical officers, with the occasional engineer. When I'm not writing (which is very often), I can be found reading, prowling the internet, battling my syllabus, or having an existential crisis over a life I haven't lived yet. Reedsy is an attempt at getting my life on track.