Amy Slanger

God Knows Where I Lost My TV Remote

It was somewhere between having a plan and quietly opting out of it

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

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

April 8, 2026 · 1,104 words

Motherhood

I Became My Mother at 4AM

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

March 26, 2026 · 775 words

Faith

Physics Needed Proof to Believe in Entanglement

People never waited for proof to believe in love

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.

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 20, 2026 · 897 words

High-Functioning Grief is the Loneliest Kind

Why we were never meant to mourn while being productive

January 20, 2026 · 786 words

The Universe Is Indifferent

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

January 19, 2026 · 790 words

The Most Violent Thing You Did Was Act Normal After

A letter to the person no one noticed

January 9, 2026 · 551 words

The Other Side of You

A letter to the lost you.

January 6, 2026 · 855 words

Faith

Terminal Lucidity

Moments when clarity arrives just before we let go

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 2, 2026 · 641 words

Laila Majnu

Are you willing to read the story again?

December 12, 2025 · 588 words

Travel

My Issue With Ghosts

Entities with unlimited powers and zero output.

November 26, 2025 · 1,274 words

Mental Health

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 26, 2025 · 1,334 words

Mental Health

My Trauma with the Kitchen

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

November 21, 2025 · 646 words

Cats

The Tick in My Ceiling Fan

A tiny noise kept me awake for years.

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 16, 2025 · 802 words

Motherhood

My First Ever Kissing Scene

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

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 7, 2025 · 872 words

The Reward Is Not at the End

God is with those who are patient

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 5, 2025 · 585 words

The Rings Beneath Our Skin

Growth doesn’t mean forgetting, it means becoming.

October 30, 2025 · 482 words

To the Mist Over the Rice Farm

Learning how to dissolve without disappearing.

October 30, 2025 · 700 words

Dreams

How Fishes Learnt to Fly

A modern myth about who’s allowed to breathe.

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 18, 2025 · 874 words

Career

The Day We Walked Into a Curse

About friendship, pride, and a cursed fort

October 13, 2025 · 802 words

Mental Health

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 2, 2025 · 839 words

PTSD Disguised as Scripture

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

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 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 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 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…

August 28, 2025 · 507 words

Dreams

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 25, 2025 · 1,373 words

How We Staged a Love Story in Maths Tuition

Maths: zero. Gossip algebra: full marks.

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 16, 2025 · 457 words

The Ghost and I Finally Slept

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

August 11, 2025 · 855 words

Motherhood

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 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…

July 25, 2025 · 334 words