Qissah

Qissah means fable in Arabic.

Stories are all there is, it seems. It almost feels like this universe has been created out of narratives and interpretations- true and false, of our invention and someone else’s.

But this newsletter is not about stating the obvious importance of stories.

This newsletter is where I am collecting my experiments with story-telling. Here I try to narrate abstractions or daily-life absurdities into something resembling a story. And I would love you to be a part of this.

I do not promise you a definite genre or a style of stories. The character of this newsletter itself is that of the whimsical narrator- a narrator trying to understand the reality of what befalls us through the medium of stories.

To start, off here’s a story on stories.

Qissah

Stories of the World

The world was already old when it was set up. On that day, the smoke had started coming out of the chimney. The gears in the grass had started turning the blades towards a young sun who was surprised to have been woken from some ancient slumber. Thoughts burnt in the furnace of the stars and became energy. Energy became light. And this light was then us…

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4 years ago · Zeeshan Akhtar

If you'd like to get such stories in your inbox, do subscribe. Every new tale that I upload here will go directly to your inbox. I mostly share short stories here, but I am also coming up with a novella to serialise it here.

Also, drop in a comment and start a discussion. I would really like to know what you think of these collections. Thank you.

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