Amy Slanger

The Voice in My Head I Call “It”

We all have a second brain. No, not the one below the pelvis. The other one.

July 24, 2025 · 1,061 words

Divorce

A Eulogy for My Overthinking Friend

If you’ve ever judged someone’s behavior without wondering what their brain might be battling, pause.

July 26, 2025 · 582 words

Victoria’s Secret, Vengeance, and a Very Lucky Man

Talk to me if we can make a Netflix series.

July 28, 2025 · 539 words

When the Jinn Waited Their Turn

A postpartum story of blood, ghosts, milk, and choosing not to die just yet.

July 30, 2025 · 539 words

Confessions of a Former Covert Narcissist (Who’s Now Your Boss)

or how I weaponized empathy, called it love, and now just call it Tuesday.

August 1, 2025 · 480 words

Thoughts from a Very Ordinary Day

Mercury retrograde. Murphy’s law. Me.

August 1, 2025 · 980 words

Seven Idiots, One PTM, and Zero Regrets

G7! Not a global summit, but seven kids skipping PTMs, stacking Coke straws, and forming the most underperforming yet unforgettable gang .

August 3, 2025 · 673 words

Egyptian Cotton, Vikings Tragedy

How I bled through five-star linen, broke a glass, drank betrayal, and laughed like trauma owed me rent.

August 6, 2025 · 658 words

Family

Engaged to a JPEG: My Big Fat Nowhere Engagement

A solo engagement, a man with zero presence, and a whole family pretending it was normal.

August 8, 2025 · 1,057 words

Family

A Tribute to Jafri Uncle

Syed Naqi Husain Jafri was one of those men, not just for me, but for so many of the little kids who have now grown into adults. He…

August 14, 2025 · 906 words

Every Balcony Under My Moon

I’ve had more balconies than I’ve had support, and they’ve been far more reliable.

August 17, 2025 · 763 words

JD on the Rocks, LIIT in a Coke Bottle

I almost made it into a Netflix true-crime doc, but at least I found freedom from my own ghosts.

August 19, 2025 · 521 words

Humor

When Life is a Joke, Add Your Own Punchline

Not everything is survived with candles and breathing exercises. Sometimes you just need to tape stamps to a broken window and laugh

August 24, 2025 · 599 words

Humor

My Sunday

Humor is how I rob misery of its power. Which is why my Sunday reads like a sitcom written by ants, vodka, and a leaking AC.

August 25, 2025 · 1,373 words

How We Staged a Love Story in Maths Tuition

Maths: zero. Gossip algebra: full marks.

August 28, 2025 · 507 words

The Book I’ll Never Read

A lost novel written in my sleep, stolen by pills, guarded by a cat, and preserved only in another universe.

August 29, 2025 · 845 words

Affirmations

Motivational Band-Aids slapped on bullet wounds, or the play I rehearse every morning.

September 3, 2025 · 603 words

God, Take My Imagination and Burn It — Finally

The first time in history, Romeo and Juliet lived happily ever after. Separately. The only thing that died was their love. Here’s Part 1…

September 5, 2025 · 830 words

The Object Decides How It Reveals Itself

Some objects refuse to tell you what they are. They wait until the right moment to show themselves.

September 21, 2025 · 800 words

Travel

The Geometry of Madness

Why Delhi’s railway station, like the Nazca lines, proves chaos is just precision we can’t yet understand.

September 26, 2025 · 893 words

The Woman Not Called Durga

A goddess is not always carved in stone. Sometimes she is a widow with eight children and ten invisible arms.

October 2, 2025 · 839 words

PTSD Disguised as Scripture

On how trauma is retold until it becomes prophecy, and why survival has always needed stories.

October 5, 2025 · 965 words

The Male Anatomy at 3 a.m.

Insomnia doesn’t let me forget that every part of a man is both invitation and denial.

October 7, 2025 · 154 words

It’s Complicated (With God)

Dude’s a Red Flag

October 9, 2025 · 516 words

Myself

A reflection on the I that reads, feels, and observes.

October 10, 2025 · 563 words

God, I Keep Losing You in the Noise

A prayer from a believer who’s too tired to be good, too human to stop reaching for God anyway.

October 13, 2025 · 705 words

Oh, You, the Wrapped One

When you are called from your hiding.

October 13, 2025 · 802 words

How to Survive a Spiritual Awakening Without Becoming Insufferable

Lessons from My Third Eye, Now Available in HD

October 13, 2025 · 712 words

The Universe Has Boundary Issues

I dated her once. She called it divine timing; I call it emotional negligence.

October 14, 2025 · 890 words

Entropy, Served with Kachori

Delhi, the cosmos, and the holy pauses hidden inside the noise

October 16, 2025 · 961 words

Universal Consciousness, Explained Badly (But Honestly)

Symbols don’t sit quietly in dictionaries. They float like waves until we look at them, collapsing into fear, healing, or divinity.

October 22, 2025 · 552 words

Grief

Everything I’ve Ever Lost Is Still Somewhere, Existing Without Me

A meditation on loss, matter, and the divine recycling of everything

October 28, 2025 · 820 words

The Day I Stopped Chasing the Sun

On losing everything I thought mattered, and finding something quieter that did.

November 6, 2025 · 692 words

The Body’s Quiet Theology

Some pathways carry blood to keep me alive, while one carries stillness to remind me why.

November 6, 2025 · 780 words

God Tried to Fix My Sister. Then He Gave Up

A love letter to the most chaotic, radiant, impossible woman I know.

November 7, 2025 · 872 words

The Reward Is Not at the End

God is with those who are patient

November 12, 2025 · 871 words

To the Men Who Wanted to Fix Me

Keep your advice, your ego, and your finger, I know where you can put them

November 14, 2025 · 731 words

The Year I Realised Summer Vacation Was Never Coming Back

A quiet heartbreak every adult carries without talking about it.

November 17, 2025 · 2,073 words

A Temple in Langkawi and the Stick Number 99

On friendship, fate, fortune sticks, and learning to accept something good.

November 18, 2025 · 1,077 words

The Lahab Within

Pride doesn’t shout; it flickers! in brilliance, in envy, in the quiet moments we forget to bow.

November 19, 2025 · 922 words

Pompeii, and the Version of Me That Stayed Behind

When life moves on, but a part of you remains frozen in the moment everything changed.

November 20, 2025 · 773 words

Scientific Explanation of Why I Can’t Wake Up on Time

A letter to my very Indian mother with chappal throwing skills of an Indian Cricketer.

November 20, 2025 · 1,034 words

Bedtime Story

A scientifically accurate breakdown of why your “random” life is actually just physics showing off, hopefully will make you go to sleep.

November 21, 2025 · 650 words

It’s Meaning Enough

A gentle reminder that the moment we ask, we already know.

November 26, 2025 · 1,274 words

The Ghosts We Inherited

Understanding the science behind our suffering and why Indians need to talk about mental health like it’s human, not haunted.

December 4, 2025 · 1,168 words

Premature Enlightenment: A Philosophy of Unhinged Decisions

A field guide to waking up, choosing yourself, and not going to jail.

December 8, 2025 · 902 words

Why I Judge People Who Run Marathons

Run your marathons. I’ll run my mouth

December 10, 2025 · 893 words

Career

Why I Stare Into Space Like I’m in Love (I’m Not. It’s a Board Meeting.)

Here’s my mess. It’s funny. Maybe your mess is funny too.

December 13, 2025 · 780 words

I Keep a Knife Under My Mattress

Not an article for spirituality influencers.

December 17, 2025 · 1,152 words

I Healed So Hard, Now Life Is Boring Me

An essay about recovery, boredom, and missing the chaos that explained me

December 23, 2025 · 689 words

A Letter to My Ancestors

I Have Issues and It’s Your Fault.

January 2, 2026 · 641 words

Laila Majnu

Are you willing to read the story again?

January 6, 2026 · 889 words

Free Will Is a Lot Like Chess (And I’m Bad at Both).

On choice, constraint, and why some moves can’t be taken back.

January 6, 2026 · 855 words

Terminal Lucidity

Moments when clarity arrives just before we let go

January 15, 2026 · 555 words

I Was Addicted to Being Needed

On mistaking usefulness for love

January 19, 2026 · 555 words

Everyone Is Healing. No One Is Accountable

Or: how therapy language became the most polite way to disappear

January 20, 2026 · 786 words

The Universe Is Indifferent

Ranting of a lover of astrophysics, reading books that are flying above her understanding.

February 4, 2026 · 693 words

Travel

The Light That Traveled Billions of Years to Die in My Eyes

“Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder” explained through physics

February 4, 2026 · 1,097 words

Post-Expectation Delirium

When Meaning Doesn’t Arrive

February 9, 2026 · 495 words

You Didn’t Lose Meaning

It interacted with adulthood and never recovered.

February 17, 2026 · 699 words

Your Personality Is Just a Survival Strategy

The traits you call “who you are” may be adaptations you never realized you outgrew.

February 23, 2026 · 613 words

Self-Awareness Is Not Enlightenment.

I just watch myself make the same decisions with better vocabulary.

February 24, 2026 · 743 words

Closure Is a Nervous System Event

Why understanding doesn’t end anything

February 25, 2026 · 670 words

Single Motherhood Is Mostly Administrative

No lessons, just survival and missing shoes.

March 7, 2026 · 1,456 words

The Stranger at the Oasis

Familiarity has a price. Yet living without it has a cost.

March 26, 2026 · 775 words

Physics Needed Proof to Believe in Entanglement

People never waited for proof to believe in love

March 28, 2026 · 894 words

I Was Invited Twice

On asking God for the one thing you stopped asking anyone else for

April 6, 2026 · 764 words

The Catharsis of Nothingness

Not peace. Not healing. Just… suspended.

April 8, 2026 · 1,104 words

I Became My Mother at 4AM

No one prepares you for the kind of life that settles in quietly

June 10, 2026 · 1,079 words