If you know anything about us, you should know that DWL runs an annual short story competition (the longlisting for the 2013 competition is well underway, incidentally). But once upon a time, more months ago than we care to admit, we also asked you to submit stories of a different kind: book spine stories. That’s right – you had to go through your books, stack them up and create narratives out of their titles. Here’s a collection of the best responses that we got.
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Motherhood
Hiba Masood from Dubai sent this heartbreaking yet uplifting story of a mother who learns to love her child for who he is.
Desire
Farheen Zehra from Karachi on breaking the rules. All the rules.
Karachi: Sadia Desai ‘s retelling of the classic ‘fallen woman’ story.
Mystery
What happened next? Sadia Desai from Karachi leaves you wondering.
Ahmed Ghafoor’s fantasy-inspired whodunnit.
Poetry
‘City of Masks’ by Najia Sabahat Khan from Karachi. Originally composed for T2F.