“This is what the stars to which we shall return would see us as—two separate biological arrangements linked together by the pain one inflicted upon the other without even knowing it.”

— Shoaib Rashdi

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Shoaib Rashdi

Shoaib Rashdi, an aspiring polymath, began his literary career in 2018 when his short story entitled Birth to a Dancing Star became a finalist in Literati – South Asian Award for Micro-Fiction Seas…

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