Amy Slanger

The Curl on the Corner of the Carpet

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

April 6, 2026 · 764 words

The Catharsis of Nothingness

Not peace. Not healing. Just… suspended.

March 25, 2026 · 1,027 words

I Tried Everything to Feel Something

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

March 6, 2026 · 647 words

The Only Thing That Didn’t Change

Fifteen years later, we met at an airport.

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 3, 2026 · 953 words

The Cab Driver Who Had a 30-Year Plan

A cab driver with no radio had a clearer future than I did.

March 2, 2026 · 1,199 words

Philosophy

Her First Word Wasn’t What I Hoped to Hear

How I learned that what we call destiny is often just familiarity

February 25, 2026 · 1,000 words

Completely Unbothered

I am calm. My nervous system, however, has filed a formal complaint.

February 23, 2026 · 992 words

Nothing Happened Today

And Somehow That Was the Whole Day

December 23, 2025 · 672 words

A Birthday, Quietly

On turning thirty-six

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.

November 21, 2025 · 650 words

God

It’s Meaning Enough

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

November 17, 2025 · 2,073 words

Faith

A Temple in Langkawi and the Stick Number 99

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

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 7, 2025 · 606 words

Jaagte Raho

Every night, someone stayed awake so we could dream.

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.

October 30, 2025 · 482 words

To the Mist Over the Rice Farm

Learning how to dissolve without disappearing.

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 27, 2025 · 815 words

Philosophy

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 14, 2025 · 825 words

Things My Daughter Taught Me About Not Belonging

When home becomes a moving thing.

October 5, 2025 · 1,042 words

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 · 695 words

Belonging Comes Late

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

October 2, 2025 · 839 words

God

PTSD Disguised as Scripture

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

September 18, 2025 · 617 words

How to Survive the Circus (101 for Women Who Do It All)

No medals, no applause. Just the quiet constancy of women who keep the show alive.

September 18, 2025 · 775 words

Me vs. Jupiter

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

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 12, 2025 · 831 words

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 11, 2025 · 521 words

The Ghost of Belonging

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

September 10, 2025 · 513 words

The Aftertastes of Laughter

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

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

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 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 29, 2025 · 845 words

Philosophy

Affirmations

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

August 24, 2025 · 599 words

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 19, 2025 · 521 words

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 16, 2025 · 457 words

Grief

The Ghost and I Finally Slept

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

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 5, 2025 · 954 words

This Mess is Mine

not-so-good girl who buys crayons like penance, interviews men who flinch, and finds comfort in chole

August 5, 2025 · 710 words

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 3, 2025 · 673 words

God

Egyptian Cotton, Vikings Tragedy

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

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