“Although I offered my Fajr prayers regularly, this time, instead of jumping right up, I lay there, the dream replaying in my mind vividly as if on a constant loop.”

— aaina batool

“Whenever I came back home from my university, I was always under the fear that my mother would have arranged my marriage somewhere.”

— aaina batool

“As the sun disappeared below the horizon and the birds chirped whilst making their way home, she smiled at me, one last time and this time, I returned the smile.”

— aaina batool

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“Jabeen squinted into the distance and saw Khadija standing on the other side with a gun in her hand and a cocky smile on her face.”

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Aaina Batool is an undergraduate currently completing her Bachelors in Business Administration. She is a passionate writer, baker and a business woman. She occasionally enjoys writing for different…

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