Amy Slanger

Dear Ancestor, Explain Yourself

A formal complaint regarding civilization.

May 7, 2026 · 1,162 words

The Curl on the Corner of the Carpet

Pale clothes, missing buttons, and the sound of bangles being removed.

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 6, 2026 · 764 words

The Catharsis of Nothingness

Not peace. Not healing. Just… suspended.

March 25, 2026 · 732 words

Cats

Some Nights, I Rehearse Telling You I’m Afraid of the Dark

A life continues in small, precise ways after the person it was built with leaves

March 25, 2026 · 1,027 words

I Tried Everything to Feel Something

Running, collapsing, observing, arranging, returning, in fragments

March 2, 2026 · 791 words

The Afternoon I Couldn’t Find a Reason to Hurry

On the rare discomfort of a day that asked nothing of me.

January 22, 2026 · 858 words

Family

The Coldest Hour

Age of Empathy · Winter Prompt

January 19, 2026 · 790 words

The Most Violent Thing You Did Was Act Normal After

A letter to the person no one noticed

January 12, 2026 · 574 words

Travel

Tomorrow, the city will wake up and keep moving, Eight people will not.

Because they do not have what I am wrapped in.

December 31, 2025 · 833 words

Nothing Exploded

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

December 17, 2025 · 1,152 words

Mental Health

I Healed So Hard, Now Life Is Boring Me

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

December 13, 2025 · 780 words

Faith

I Keep a Knife Under My Mattress

Not an article for spirituality influencers.

December 8, 2025 · 902 words

Mental Health

Why I Judge People Who Run Marathons

Run your marathons. I’ll run my mouth

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.

November 21, 2025 · 646 words

Cats

The Tick in My Ceiling Fan

A tiny noise kept me awake for years.

November 21, 2025 · 650 words

It’s Meaning Enough

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

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 14, 2025 · 779 words

The Guava Tree That Grew Up With Me

Childhood was Green.

November 14, 2025 · 683 words

My House is Bigger in My Memory

On childhood homes, sisterhood across continents, and why everything feels larger when we’re small.

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 7, 2025 · 606 words

Jaagte Raho

Every night, someone stayed awake so we could dream.

October 31, 2025 · 177 words

Love

Ready Is Not a Feeling

It’s the way the heart learns to move before the mind approves.

October 30, 2025 · 700 words

How Fishes Learnt to Fly

A modern myth about who’s allowed to breathe.

October 28, 2025 · 1,538 words

Travel

Jeeti Raho

She once left home as a bride. Now she returns as a shadow.

October 27, 2025 · 815 words

To the Witch on the Moon

From one outcast to another, under the same pale moon.

October 22, 2025 · 689 words

To the Shimmering Lights Hanging from the Balcony

A letter to an object that makes me so happy

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 10, 2025 · 563 words

Faith

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 5, 2025 · 1,042 words

Humor

Athena’s Curse, Medusa’s Tears, and Every Woman’s Story

Where women’s vulnerability became their punishment, and their punishment became their legacy.

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 5, 2025 · 695 words

Humor

Belonging Comes Late

On the fragments, ghosts, and fleeting moments we mistake for home.

September 25, 2025 · 787 words

Rhythm Interrupted

How the future interrupts, and what we do in the pause

September 18, 2025 · 1,240 words

Family

Where the Lanes Still Remember Us

A mosque and adjoining graveyard in a quiet village.

September 12, 2025 · 926 words

Folding Paper, Breaking Heads, and Finding My First Mentor

A twenty-one-year-old in an orange shirt, and no elevator knowledge walks into her first corporate interview in an elevator company.

September 11, 2025 · 521 words

Humor

The Ghost of Belonging

The dead don’t haunt houses. They haunt bedsheets, teacups, playlists, and perfume counters.

September 10, 2025 · 482 words

Cats

My Cat Turned Into a Groom and I Became the Mother-in-Law

This December, I may be promoted to cat grandma.

September 5, 2025 · 830 words

Love

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 1, 2025 · 409 words

A Beginner’s Guide to Ruining Your Own Day

From WhatsApp neglect to tear-flavored parathas, here’s the foolproof routine for self-sabotage before 8:15 a.m.

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 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 27, 2025 · 803 words

The Mirage and the Matchbox: Part 4

If you have not read parts before these, well, let it be now.

August 26, 2025 · 565 words

The Mirage and the Matchbox: Part 3

This is Part 3 of a four-part memoir series about my first months in the UAE. here’s Part 1 and Part 2

August 25, 2025 · 578 words

The Crooked Thumb

Childhood was… cinematic.

August 24, 2025 · 1,272 words

Divorce

The Mirage and the Matchbox: Part 2

This is Part 2 of a four-part memoir series about my first months in UAE. Part 1 is here

August 22, 2025 · 1,303 words

Divorce

The Mirage and the Matchbox — Part 1

It was the first time I was traveling abroad. I had recently gotten married, and my husband had gone ahead.

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 16, 2025 · 457 words

Grief

The Ghost and I Finally Slept

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

August 13, 2025 · 950 words

God, Take My Imagination and Burn It — Part 2

continuation to

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 9, 2025 · 372 words

How to ruin your own stability in style.

The line is a lie, people. Wake up.

August 7, 2025 · 265 words

The Door to Nowhere

Just when you’ve learned where your fingers go, How to move through the room with your eyes closed slow. When the kettle clicks just at the…

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 5, 2025 · 710 words

Love

The Trade Fair, and a Love That Lingered

When love was just holding hands, jumping on gobi trucks, and laughing at sweet corn stuck in our teeth

August 4, 2025 · 773 words

Winter Afternoons, Terrace, and an Aeroplane in the Sky

All We Wanted Was the Sky

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 1, 2025 · 480 words

Thoughts from a Very Ordinary Day

Mercury retrograde. Murphy’s law. Me.

July 31, 2025 · 416 words

Kissa Kursi Ka

A chair. A quiet story of growing, working, aging — and the chairs that held it all.

July 5, 2023 · 188 words

Dear Future..

You and the moon beside me always,

July 2, 2023 · 548 words

An Ode to My Bed

Yesterday, I changed my bed.

August 3, 2017 · 2,140 words