Amy Slanger

I Became My Mother at 4AM

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

April 6, 2026 · 764 words

Dreams

The Catharsis of Nothingness

Not peace. Not healing. Just… suspended.

March 28, 2026 · 894 words

I Was Invited Twice

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

March 26, 2026 · 775 words

Physics Needed Proof to Believe in Entanglement

People never waited for proof to believe in love

March 7, 2026 · 1,456 words

The Stranger at the Oasis

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

February 23, 2026 · 613 words

Self-Awareness Is Not Enlightenment.

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

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 9, 2026 · 495 words

You Didn’t Lose Meaning

It interacted with adulthood and never recovered.

February 4, 2026 · 1,097 words

Post-Expectation Delirium

When Meaning Doesn’t Arrive

January 19, 2026 · 555 words

Everyone Is Healing. No One Is Accountable

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

January 15, 2026 · 555 words

I Was Addicted to Being Needed

On mistaking usefulness for love

January 6, 2026 · 855 words

Terminal Lucidity

Moments when clarity arrives just before we let go

January 2, 2026 · 641 words

Laila Majnu

Are you willing to read the story again?

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 13, 2025 · 780 words

I Keep a Knife Under My Mattress

Not an article for spirituality influencers.

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 8, 2025 · 902 words

Why I Judge People Who Run Marathons

Run your marathons. I’ll run my mouth

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.

November 20, 2025 · 773 words

Dreams

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 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 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 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 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 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 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.

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 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 14, 2025 · 890 words

Entropy, Served with Kachori

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

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 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 · 705 words

Oh, You, the Wrapped One

When you are called from your hiding.

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 7, 2025 · 154 words

It’s Complicated (With God)

Dude’s a Red Flag

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.

August 29, 2025 · 845 words

Affirmations

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

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 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 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 · 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 .

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.

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 26, 2025 · 582 words

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

Talk to me if we can make a Netflix series.

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 20, 2025 · 741 words