A collection of short stories, thoughts on writing, and updates.

Developed within Sahab Collective’s guided writing sessions and refined through our manuscript circle, this story examines fear as a condition learned, inherited, and imagined. Through precise recollection and sensory detail, Abdel Jaber reveals how superstition, religion, and memory entwine to shape a young woman’s inner life. The narrative moves from the external—creatures, storms, night sounds—toward the psychological, until the shadow becomes an emblem of what endures.

Written by Sanjiv, writing with us in 2025, this short story follows Ramu through the smog-choked platforms of New Delhi as he hunts a runaway bride under orders of punishment. Moving through crowded compartments, the narrative sustains tension through compressed time, fractured memory, and the weight of unspoken duty. When he finally finds her, the confrontation reveals a shared past that unsettles his resolve. Suspense shifts from threatened violence to moral hesitation, ending in an act of refusal that alters both their futures. The closing image of chai steam offers a quiet gesture toward consequence and release.

Written by Sanjic Chatterji, a writer with us in 2025, this quiet and evocative story traces a man bound to ritual, shadowed by memory, and confronted by the possibility of renewal. Through rain-soaked commutes and a mysterious white building, the narrative asks how far we might go to resist decay, and what we sacrifice to preserve love. At its centre are questions of ageing with dignity, the ethics of intervention, and the fragile continuity of identity. Beneath the surface, it reflects on time’s quiet revisions, and the dream of returning to who we once were.