Thorns, Wings & Life

The afternoon sun was an unblinking eye of brass, baking the concrete pavement until the air above it shimmered with heat haze. I had taken refuge under the shallow awning of a closed storefront, clut...

Antara ShawAntara Shaw is a young writer and poet from Kolkata, India, who finds stories in the ordinary and wonder in the unknown. Her writing explores curiosity, emotion, and the little mysteries that make us human.