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Third engagement function this year, last Saturday, and somewhere between the photos and the small talk I caught myself doing the thing…
My cousin told me about it before my own brother did, that he'd already sat down with a lawyer two months ago to understand how our…
Three weeks now since the layoff and I still put on office clothes every morning and leave the house at the same time and sit in the same…
Six new tasks landed on my desk this morning before I'd even finished the three from yesterday, and that's basically been the shape of…
Is a rightful share still a rightful share once the person who is owed it already has money of her own? That question sat in the middle of…
You'll regret this in five years, my father told me last month, the same line he's used at least a dozen times since I told my parents what…
At my cousin Farah's engagement last month, my aunt looked at me across the buffet table and asked why I was still single when Farah, two…
Fourteen years in the same field and somewhere around year eleven the satisfaction just quietly left the building without telling me. I…
This story is about a man in Dammam. An AC technician, I'll call him Arif. 4 kids, a good shop, a wife who cooked every night. After dinner…
This is my cousin Ayesha's story, and I have waited a long time to write it down. She is a doctor. She got married in Hyderabad and moved…