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Nibras Mirza

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2022

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Nibras Mirza

Submitted to Contest #206

Guide to Urdu/Kashmiri terms used in the text:· Angrez ki aulaad (Urdu): An Englishman’s child (used to indicate that someone is acting entitled to be treated with privilege)· Phupho (Urdu): Paternal aunt· Noon-chai (Kashmiri): Translates to salted tea; a traditional pink hued, salted tea from the valley of Kashmir.“Nabeela? Nabeela? Nabeela?!”“WHAT?! WHAT?! WHAT?!”Nabeela finally threw the bed covers aside with violence matching that of ...

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Amma

Nibras Mirza

The evening was burning dimly at the end of winter, promising spring. The events of the day kept rising in front of Ramia's eyes: Hadi falling from the pear tree; Tathi rushing to her fallen, seraphic grandson's aid; Hadi with his broken arm in a white gauze sling; Amma walking calmly up the sloping road to the house, her body following her head as bit by bit, she bloomed into view; Amma tenderly nursing her son-with-a-broken-arm. Ramia sniffled as she completed Hadi's homework for him: it took away her playtime. Little brat! Always getting ...

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Paratha

Nibras Mirza

Submitted to Contest #183

Aftab huffed on the bicycle as he reached Gulmohar Lane. The flyover opening onto the National Highway stretched python-like to his right, deserted. In the fifteen kilometers he had cycled, he had seen two hawkers who stood under the blaze of the July sun on empty roads to sell fried peas, water chestnuts and pakoras to the occasional passerby, and one other cyclist. Four months of the pandemic lockdown following close on the heels of a seven-month long political shutdown had turned the city int...

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The Waterfall

Nibras Mirza

Submitted to Contest #157

Guide to the pronounciation of the names: -Mohsin is Moh-sin ( Moh rhymes with Though and Sin is just pronounced in the usual way) -Jibran is Jib-ran ( The J is as in Jug and Jib rhymes with nib. Ran rhymes with barn) -Mehreen is Meh-reen (Meh is the same as the exclamatory 'Meh!' and reen rhymes with sheen/green) I hope this helps! The paddy fields now sauntered along, now whizzed past them as the car shifted gears. The breeze tousled their hair. A woman squatted on her haunches in an apple orchard, a scarf tied over her head. She...

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