{"id":763,"date":"2013-07-22T16:39:54","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T16:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/?p=763"},"modified":"2013-07-22T18:33:10","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T18:33:10","slug":"show-some-spine-book-titles-tell-their-own-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/2013\/07\/show-some-spine-book-titles-tell-their-own-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Show some spine – book titles tell their own stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you know anything about us, you should know that DWL runs an annual short story competition<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span> (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<\/strong>. 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.<\/p>\n

Click on the photos to enlarge them!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Motherhood<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Hiba<\/a>

Hiba Masood from Dubai sent this heartbreaking yet uplifting story of a mother who learns to love her child for who he is.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Desire<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Farheen<\/a>

Farheen Zehra from Karachi on breaking the rules. All the rules.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Sadia<\/a>

Karachi: Sadia Desai ‘s retelling of the classic ‘fallen woman’ story.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Mystery<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Sadia<\/a>

What happened next? Sadia Desai \u00a0from Karachi leaves you wondering.<\/p><\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"Ahmed<\/a>

Ahmed Ghafoor’s fantasy-inspired whodunnit.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Poetry<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"'City<\/a>

‘City of Masks’ by Najia Sabahat Khan from Karachi. Originally composed for T2F<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":906,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions\/906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}