Ali Jan Maqsood

My grave was left open after a long time. I was taken out of it and lifted into the world but for a short period. I was also told that no human could see me. However, the animals and birds could look at me and talk to me. I was also told that I would […]

“Be a Baloch.” I hated these words of his. As if, I was not a Baloch. I didn’t say anything in front of him since all my other colleagues agreed with his words. Once, I asked him who the real Baloch were. “A real Baloch is a real lover of his/her land,” he said. “Like […]

I stood next to the wall. He wasn’t looking at me. He had his back positioned towards me while he gathered all his stuff together. He took all the happiness with himself and kept the sadness for me. I was looking at him, but he wasn’t. He raised his hand to grasp at the mirror […]

Keenagi sold his load of dates for 80 rupees. He put them in a handkerchief and went to the market to buy groceries for home. There weren’t good groceries sold at his own village’s market, so he went to the village’s market nearby. Whatever he bought from there, he tied them to his camel and […]

Once a cleric came from a faraway area and stayed in a mosque. He would offer Namaz and address the people. His room was besides the mosque and his house was on its backside. On the backside of the cleric’s house, there was another home. The meals of the cleric were on those neighbors. One […]

Peeral was never satisfied with his wife. They fought with each other all the time and their neighbors were fed up of their everyday drama. Because of his wife Ganjuk’s bitter tongue, he could never come out of his home. Their daughter-in-law, Mahzaib, was suffering a lot too. Besides Peeral, only she knew along with […]