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Forty short poems about the Ravi, a grandmother’s hands, and learning what water forgives.
142K reads · 19K votes · 40 parts · 7 min · ★ 4.9A marine biologist returns to the island she swore off, and to the fisherman who never stopped writing to her.
1.2M reads · 96K votes · 32 parts · 35 min · ★ 4.7Her father drew every road in the kingdom except the one that led to where he vanished.
734K reads · 58K votes · 44 parts · 44 min · ★ 4.8Forty kilometres under the ice, something has started answering back in her dead brother’s voice.
356K reads · 28K votes · 26 parts · 22 min · ★ 4.7Twelve small letters to the girl who thought she had to be loud to be heard.
39K reads · 6.2K votes · 12 parts · 2 min · ★ 4.7Ek dhaba, do strangers, aur ek cup chai jo kabhi khatam nahi hoti.
88K reads · 9.4K votes · 1 parts · 1 min · ★ 4.6Two brothers, one summer, and the paper moons they hung from the ceiling to keep the dark away.
61K reads · 7K votes · 1 parts · 2 min · ★ 4.4Eleven passengers board the midnight bus. Twelve get off.
54K reads · 5.1K votes · 1 parts · 2 min · ★ 4.5A widow inherits a bindery and a ledger of books that were never collected.
21K reads · 2.3K votes · 14 parts · 17 min · ★ 4.6Short poems for the first week of monsoon, one for each of the city’s gates.
7.4K reads · 980 votes · 13 parts · 1 min · ★ 4.7