Ulfa Hassan

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2021

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“Skinny Hunger” by Ulfa Hassan

Submitted to Contest #105

There’s a hunger at the pit of my stomach. It gnaws at me and tells me to consume nothing. Nothing at all. Don’t you want to be skinny again? I do, but its so hard. I’m so hungry. Somehow, the hunger feels good. The pains and the aches, the tumultuous rumblings of my unsatisfied stomach are all part of my body returning to the slim shape that it was before. I miss that girl. Every day, I think about her and how much I took her for granted. Now, hardly any of her clothes even fit me. It’s this medicine that’s done it. The pills that ...

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“The Power to Humiliate” by Ulfa Hassan

Submitted to Contest #101

I have been teaching for almost a year. I am accustomed to it now; the ways of the children and the work I must put in to ensure lessons run smoothly.   On Monday mornings, I teach English and then History in the afternoon. The children tend to get somewhat rowdy after they have finished their lunch, like a group of football fans on a pub crawl after they’ve had a couple of drinks. It was difficult for me at first, to shout at the children when they don’t listen. It seems barbaric, inhuman to do such a thing. But I have lear...

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Student, teacher, writer. Instagram: @orangemoon_poetry.