Mehreen Ahmed

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2020

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6 Stories

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“Forge” by Mehreen Ahmed

ForgebyMehreen Ahmed Okay, if in the next twenty-four hours, King George didn’t turn up, I was going to paste a poster on every wall for a missing cat. I was certain that someone would know where the cat went. Then, when I looked at the ocean, the big waves somersaulting, I thought who could survive this? What if King George drowned? I felt trepidation. That’s what must have happened; maybe he fell accidentally and the cat died. Why would it go out on a treacherous day like this? There was no sunlight visible all day at all—“Oh! King George,...

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“Sponge-grass” by Mehreen Ahmed

Sponge-grass by Mehreen Ahmed I stood on a patch of grass in the wetlands. I called it the sponge grass. If one were to step on it, the sponge-grass patch, typically, sprung up and down under one’s feet movement, not submerge completely. This porous patch of the drenched grass, as resilient as it was held up some promise of stability, but not a whole lot. Standing on it, I also watched birds through handheld binoculars at a distance. Today, I watched something spectacular—the rare ospreys. I almost thought they had disappeared from this...

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“The Portrait ” by Mehreen Ahmed

Submitted to Contest #85

The Portrait  by Mehreen Ahmed On the crossing of Victoria and Harriet Street, stood a building of a massive block of grey apartments. Up in the front of each flat, balconies jutted out like open matchboxes, creating a blind spot for the incoming traffic. It posed an undeniable threat to the traffic on the road. Notwithstanding, the building had much to offer in the way of charm.  It would have looked quite stark, had it not been for the indoor plants. Some balconies had synthetic black chairs placed around a white table of six. Co...

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“The Black Coat” by Mehreen Ahmed

Submitted to Contest #66

The Black CoatbyMehreen AhmedOne black, wintry night, Piccolo -Xavier bumped into someone while crossing the boulevard Peripherique. Once he was across, the person he hit was not visible anymore. It seemed as though, in this Parisian dark alley, this someone simply dissolved into thin air. When he peered further into darkness, his gaze shifted towards a shiny object that appeared on an uneven, asphalt footpath. He picked it up and realised that he held a locket with a broken clasp in his palm. In the insufficient street lamp, he saw that it ...

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“Juliet's Song” by Mehreen Ahmed

Submitted to Contest #63

Juliet’s Song by Mehreen Ahmed Juliet worked in a cafe up the road. This morning, on her way to work, she thought, 'by the time I stepped out, the leaves were on fire'. She smiled to herself looking around at the hectic autumnal leaves, but she didn't realise that her pretty smile was something to see first thing in the morning. But she didn’t know that. She worked her shifts around the clock, being nice to the lovers of coffee, serving them, and taking orders. Juliet was stringent with her time, however, occasionally, she would spare a few ...

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“The Buraq” by Mehreen Ahmed

Submitted to Contest #62

The Buraq by Mehreen Ahmed In the darkest hour of a summer’s afternoon, the clouds gathered in an elegant mass of deep grey. Mugginess hung thick in the atmosphere. Pushpa Pervez sat curled up on a reclining chair in the far end corner of her balcony. Inhaling a cocktail mix of air made of pungent rain and perfumed gardenias, she looked at a retinue of ants climbing up the balcony wall. She snapped at a minuscule black fly, hovering over her upturned nose; she ruminated, ‘well now, finally some rain, long overdue.’ The horrid black flie...

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Author bio

Multiple contests winner for short fiction,Mehreen Ahmed is an Australian novelist born in Bangladesh.Her historical fiction,The Pacifist,is a Drunken Druid's Editor's Choice and an Amazon Audible bestseller.Gatherings,is nominated for the James Tait Black Prize for fiction.Her flash fiction have also been nominated for 3xbotN,Pushcart,Publication of the Month. They have been shortlisted, finalist, and have received honorable mention.Critically acclaimed by Midwest Book Review,DD Magazine,The Wild Atlantic Book Club to name a few,she is a juror to the KM Anthru Award,and featured writer on Flash Fiction North and Connotation Press.Her works have been translated into German,Greek and Bangla. Publications/Forthcoming Cambridge Core,University of Hawaii Press,Michigan State University Press,ISTE,Callej.org.Journal,Learner Autonomy Special Interest group (IATEFL,LASIG),Independence:University of Kent,The Sheaf:University of Saskatoon,Writer's Digest: Six Sentences,Litro Magazine,The Atherton Review:Academy Press,Olney/Kiss Your Darlings Magazine,Solstice Literary Magazine,WordCity Literary Journal,KNOT Magazine,The Antonym,The Hennepin Review,Literary Heist,Alien Buddha Press,October Hill Magazine,Synchronised Chaos,Perception Magazine(Syracuse University),Straylight Magazine(Wisconsin-Parkland University),The Talon Review(North Florida University),Oddball Magazine,PIne Cone Review,Noctivagant Press,Coin-Operated Press,Connotation Press,Door is A Jar,ELJ Scissors and Spackle,The Chamber Magazine,Flash Boulevard,Five Minutes,Quail Bell,Ponder Savant,Litterateur Rw,ShabdAaweg Review,Phenomenal Literature,Crêpe & Penn,Flash Frontier,Ellipsis Zine,Ginosko#24,Brown Bag,The Cabinet of Heed,Sequoyah Cherokee River Journal,Melbourne Culture Corner,Cogito Literary Journal,Breathe Everyone Magazine,Literati Magazine,Archer Literature,Active Muse,Dreaming in Fiction,Anti-Heroin Chic,Love in the time of Covid Chronicle,Unpublished Platform,Wellington Street Review,Nailpolish Stories,Setu,Impspired Magazine,The Writers and Readers'Magazine,WINK,Mono,KREAXXXION Review,Thorn Literary Magazine.3 Moon Magazine,Merak Magazine,Sage Cigarettes,The Bombay Review,FlashBack Fiction,Down in the Dirt, CC&D,Nymphs,Portand Metrozine,Academy of Heart and Mind,Creativity Webzine,Mojave Heart,The Piker Press,Kitaab,Nthanda, CommuterLit,Angel City Review,Paper Djinn,FreeFlashFiction,Cafe Dissensus,Adelaide Literary Magazine,Scarlet Leaf Review,Terror House Magazine,The Punch Magazine,Furtive Dalliance,Flash Fiction North,Storyland Literary Review,Bridge House,Cosmic Teapot Publication,Dark Myth Publication. AudioBooks Cosmic Teapot Publishing:The Pacifist,Sept 2017 Boomers On Books:The Pacifist,Youtube,August 2021 SweetyCat Press:Rain and Coffee,Youtube,Sept 2020 FlashBackFiction:East Bengal 1971,May 2020 Reedsy:Juliet's Song,Youtube,Sept 2021 Flash Fiction Frontier:Blue, Grey and Lavender,Youtube,June 2020 Peeking Cat Literary:Chasing a Dream,Podbean,Dec 2021 Ivoox:The Portrait,Aug 2018 Interviews Radical Books and Politics with Maria Estrada 2021 Boomers on Books with Vince Stevenson 2021 Siren Radio with Steve Cawte Lincoln University 2021 Breaking Rules Publishing with Trisha Mckee Podbean 2020 Pressfuls Digipress:The Moon and The Magic Divinity Vol 1,Jan 2021 Oddball Magazine:Lungs,April 2021 Immortal Works:The Portrait,Aug 2018 Listennotes:The Portrait,Aug 2018 Bewiservise:The Pizzazz,May 2020