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Perhaps the best thing I could have done for her sake and mine was to leave her alone—away from myself.

— Shoaib Rashdi, Our Inauspicious Stars
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Our Inauspicious Stars

by Shoaib Rashdi

Tragedy · 20 pages

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Shoaib Rashdi
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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