Amy Slanger

If I Forgive Myself, Will the Girl in Me Be Free?

Some girls are not lost. They’re just quiet while remembering who they were before the world told them to shrink.

August 1, 2025 · 480 words

Thoughts from a Very Ordinary Day

Mercury retrograde. Murphy’s law. Me.

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 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 11, 2025 · 731 words

How to Survive Life Without Thriving

A memoir for anyone whose coping mechanisms have their own coping mechanisms

August 11, 2025 · 855 words

Bitter Leaves, Sweet Memories

The Neem Tree —From punishment stick to parrot’s grave, it held more of my childhood than any diary could.

August 16, 2025 · 457 words

The Ghost and I Finally Slept

On letting grief in, and finding compassion where I least expected it

August 21, 2025 · 395 words

How to Look Functional While Falling Apart

From leaky ACs to butt-dialing your ex, here’s how to spin chaos into competence . One mop, one necklace, and one lie at a time.

August 22, 2025 · 403 words

When Mental Illness RSVP’d Yes

Depression slumped in, Anxiety barged in, and Imposter Syndrome came dressed to impress. Dinner was doomed from the start.

August 25, 2025 · 1,373 words

How We Staged a Love Story in Maths Tuition

Maths: zero. Gossip algebra: full marks.

August 27, 2025 · 434 words

The Sleep-Deprived Manifesto of a Woman Who Knows Everything and Still Checks Her Horoscope Twice

Because control is a myth, and I’ve got the color-coded breakdown to prove it.

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.

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 10, 2025 · 608 words

Congratulations! You’ve Won Trauma for Life

Love-bombing feels less romance and more a spam text: Congratulations! You’ve won trauma for life. And yes, I clicked.

September 10, 2025 · 513 words

Humor

The Aftertastes of Laughter

Laughter doesn’t always heal. Sometimes it stings, sometimes it saves, sometimes it just misbehaves.

September 12, 2025 · 831 words

Humor

An Obituary for the Man Who Carried Too Much. My Tau Mamu

A tribute to my favorite guy: Tau mamu filled my childhood with mangoes, laughter, and safety, yet fought a silent war that ended in…

September 18, 2025 · 775 words

Humor

Me vs. Jupiter

A gas giant spins on hydrogen; I spin on trauma. Both of us storms, just wrapped differently.

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 24, 2025 · 564 words

Family

Guilt, My Most Loyal Pet

Forget cats and dogs. The only pet that outlives you is guilt.

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 8, 2025 · 1,237 words

The Girl Who Read to Stay Alive

On books, belonging, and the strangers who save us. Finding tenderness, one secondhand book at a time.

October 9, 2025 · 516 words

Myself

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

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 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 17, 2025 · 324 words

My Toxic Trait Is Thinking I Can Emotionally Project-Manage My Life

a confession from someone who keeps adding “healing” to her to-do list

October 18, 2025 · 874 words

The Day We Walked Into a Curse

About friendship, pride, and a cursed fort

October 22, 2025 · 552 words

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

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

October 27, 2025 · 650 words

How to Have a Nervous Breakdown Gracefully

A self-help guide for those who like their despair well-lit.

October 27, 2025 · 909 words

The Good Girl’s Bad Guide to Accepting the Love She Deserves

A survival manual for women who’ve done their time in emotional rehab.

October 28, 2025 · 820 words

The Day I Stopped Chasing the Sun

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

October 30, 2025 · 700 words

How Fishes Learnt to Fly

A modern myth about who’s allowed to breathe.

October 30, 2025 · 482 words

To the Mist Over the Rice Farm

Learning how to dissolve without disappearing.

November 5, 2025 · 585 words

The Rings Beneath Our Skin

Growth doesn’t mean forgetting, it means becoming.

November 5, 2025 · 780 words

A Letter to the Man Standing on the Edge

For the nights when you can’t love life, but can still wait with it.

November 7, 2025 · 872 words

The Reward Is Not at the End

God is with those who are patient

November 8, 2025 · 589 words

Family

The Perks of Broken Things

On forgotten drawers, cracked cups, and the quiet beauty of being left alone.

November 12, 2025 · 740 words

Productivity, but Make It Trauma

When ambition is just anxiety with a LinkedIn profile.

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 16, 2025 · 802 words

My First Ever Kissing Scene

Brought to me by stealing cable and a few unfortunate moments from my innocent life.

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 · 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 · 646 words

Cats

The Tick in My Ceiling Fan

A tiny noise kept me awake for years.

November 26, 2025 · 1,334 words

My Trauma with the Kitchen

The science behind fear and the memories that still live in the body.

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 · 1,099 words

If He’s Not In Your Dreams, Your Subconscious Has Already Dumped Him

A neuroscientific love letter to your subconscious, the only part of you with taste.

December 5, 2025 · 910 words

The Schrödinger’s Burnout: Alive, Dead, and Still Showing Up to Work Like an Idiot

A darkly scientific love letter to everyone functioning on vibes, trauma, and caffeine.

December 5, 2025 · 1,017 words

Why Overthinkers Would Survive the Apocalypse

And make even the zombies reconsider their life choices.

December 8, 2025 · 902 words

Why I Judge People Who Run Marathons

Run your marathons. I’ll run my mouth

December 9, 2025 · 964 words

Annual Performance Review in December

My DNA Is 70% Human, 20% Hibernating Bear and I am still figuring remaining 10%

December 10, 2025 · 893 words

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 11, 2025 · 1,064 words

Why Does He Do That? In Present Tense.

A hyperventilating book review addressed directly to Mr. Lundy Bancroft

December 12, 2025 · 588 words

Travel

My Issue With Ghosts

Entities with unlimited powers and zero output.

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.

December 31, 2025 · 833 words

Nothing Exploded

2025: The Year I Didn’t Win, I Just Didn’t Lose.

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

Faith

Terminal Lucidity

Moments when clarity arrives just before we let go

January 9, 2026 · 551 words

The Other Side of You

A letter to the lost you.

January 14, 2026 · 370 words

Cats

My Cat Ran Away and I’m Supposed to Pretend This Isn’t About Men

On trauma, tenderness, and the urge to flee from being loved

January 19, 2026 · 555 words

Everyone Is Healing. No One Is Accountable

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

January 19, 2026 · 790 words

The Most Violent Thing You Did Was Act Normal After

A letter to the person no one noticed

January 20, 2026 · 786 words

The Universe Is Indifferent

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

January 20, 2026 · 897 words

High-Functioning Grief is the Loneliest Kind

Why we were never meant to mourn while being productive

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 20, 2026 · 1,222 words

February Is the Only Month That Doesn’t Ask Me to Fix My Life

A month of exams, first love, first loss, first job and the strange warmth that makes all of it return every year.

March 6, 2026 · 1,052 words

The Strange Loneliness of Being the Strong One

Sometimes strength is just loneliness that learned how to function.

March 26, 2026 · 775 words

Faith

Physics Needed Proof to Believe in Entanglement

People never waited for proof to believe in love

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

April 30, 2026 · 938 words

I Suspect I’m a Quantum System (Mostly Collapsing Into Disappointment)

I exist in infinite potential until observed, at which point I become… this

May 1, 2026 · 1,255 words

We Marked the Door Before We Mourned the Dead

The second wave, a sealed corridor, and how grief learned to stay inside

May 2, 2026 · 1,035 words