Where they all disappear
28 November 2025, 10:00 AM
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The mirror between us
25 September 2025, 09:49 AM
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Reader Submission / It’s all in my head
31 July 2025, 04:00 AM
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Reader Submission / Maybe a mirage
26 June 2025, 10:25 AM
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How to: live
26 June 2025, 10:19 AM
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Heart, cling to me
26 June 2025, 10:13 AM
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Fiction / Once, spring stayed longer
29 May 2025, 12:57 PM
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Fiction / When they look away
25 April 2025, 11:00 AM
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Hair
6 April 2025, 09:52 AM
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Tangerines and marmalades
28 February 2025, 15:00 PM
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The Oracle
He was, like most children, easily amused. Unlike most other children however, he never hesitated to express it. He was full of life and energy.
29 June 2024, 00:00 AM
A Dead River is All I Want
You know those instances when we start off in the wide, turbulent currents of a river making its way downstream?
30 May 2024, 05:45 AM
In the absence of a light source
Grief is a lonely river, like a fisherman's song with an empty net
30 May 2024, 05:30 AM
The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in your House
If they knew, your mother would have said, “It’s in your head, darling,” and your father would have screamed, “Put that head in the toilet bowl where it belongs.”
25 April 2024, 09:36 AM
The things we do for more salami
An Eid special edition of Rising Star's monthly comic strip.
28 March 2024, 10:33 AM
Facing the nightmare of darkness
Lighting struck everywhere. Amidst the enchanted woods, the howls of wolves echoed with a joyous "Awoo!".
29 February 2024, 09:49 AM
Sweet shop vendors
We will chase after stringless kites, Down the road
29 February 2024, 09:46 AM
When the sky lights up
A special comic this week on Rising Stars
28 December 2023, 12:48 PM
Life through the lens of an electricity pole
Today, I am covered in lines. Rust from the rain, and the occasional overflowing water from the drain paint my feet in unchangeable colours.
28 December 2023, 00:00 AM
Homesick
Once a homebody, nestled in its embrace. Now lost, a wanderer in a boundless space.
28 December 2023, 00:00 AM
Fog beneath the winter skyline
The two friends grew up together playing cricket in the garage, watching Pokémon routinely at 6 PM on Cartoon Network at Zuhayer's flat, and chasing stringless kites.
30 November 2023, 00:00 AM
Parting
While I fear whom you’ll become once you hear me, once you leave me.
31 August 2023, 13:00 PM
Fathers and Daughters and Unmailed Letters
Perhaps father was never taught to love.
31 August 2023, 13:00 PM
My Home
The trust you gain takes time.
31 August 2023, 13:00 PM