Amy Slanger

What We Brought With Us

It happened slowly.

March 6, 2026 · 647 words

The Only Thing That Didn’t Change

Fifteen years later, we met at an airport.

February 25, 2026 · 1,000 words

Completely Unbothered

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

February 25, 2026 · 670 words

Single Motherhood Is Mostly Administrative

No lessons, just survival and missing shoes.

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 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 14, 2026 · 648 words

On the Old Town Road

When language becomes the only way to carry what survives

February 13, 2026 · 767 words

Humans Are the Only Animal That Knows It Will Die

And this changes how we live

February 9, 2026 · 495 words

You Didn’t Lose Meaning

It interacted with adulthood and never recovered.

February 4, 2026 · 693 words

Travel

The Light That Traveled Billions of Years to Die in My Eyes

“Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder” explained through physics

January 22, 2026 · 858 words

The Coldest Hour

Age of Empathy · Winter Prompt

January 20, 2026 · 897 words

Grief

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 15, 2026 · 555 words

I Was Addicted to Being Needed

On mistaking usefulness for love

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 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 11, 2025 · 1,064 words

Why Does He Do That? In Present Tense.

A hyperventilating book review addressed directly to Mr. Lundy Bancroft

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 8, 2025 · 902 words

Why I Judge People Who Run Marathons

Run your marathons. I’ll run my mouth

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 4, 2025 · 1,099 words

Dreams

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 4, 2025 · 1,168 words

Premature Enlightenment: A Philosophy of Unhinged Decisions

A field guide to waking up, choosing yourself, and not going to jail.

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 21, 2025 · 650 words

It’s Meaning Enough

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

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 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 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 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 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 12, 2025 · 740 words

Productivity, but Make It Trauma

When ambition is just anxiety with a LinkedIn profile.

November 7, 2025 · 872 words

The Reward Is Not at the End

God is with those who are patient

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.

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 31, 2025 · 177 words

Ready Is Not a Feeling

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

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 · 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 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 · 815 words

To the Witch on the Moon

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

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 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 14, 2025 · 890 words

Entropy, Served with Kachori

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

October 14, 2025 · 825 words

Things My Daughter Taught Me About Not Belonging

When home becomes a moving thing.

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 · 580 words

Yellow Should Be Edible

Some colors don’t just appear — they happen to you.

October 13, 2025 · 705 words

Oh, You, the Wrapped One

When you are called from your hiding.

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 9, 2025 · 516 words

Myself

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

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 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 · 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

Belonging Comes Late

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

September 26, 2025 · 414 words

Inside a Mother’s Mind

The fears, the longings, the curses, and the love that never let me rest.

September 25, 2025 · 787 words

Rhythm Interrupted

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

September 24, 2025 · 797 words

Good Girls and Their Monsters

Every time women swallow anger, they grow a new beast inside them.

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 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 · 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 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…

September 1, 2025 · 649 words

The Nest on My AC Unit

A lifetime of loves, mistakes, and lessons, told through the clumsy little nest outside my window

August 25, 2025 · 1,373 words

How We Staged a Love Story in Maths Tuition

Maths: zero. Gossip algebra: full marks.

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 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 8, 2025 · 1,057 words

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 6, 2025 · 658 words

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 · 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 4, 2025 · 773 words

Winter Afternoons, Terrace, and an Aeroplane in the Sky

All We Wanted Was the Sky

August 1, 2025 · 385 words

God, Take My Imagination and Burn It — Part 1

Weekly continuation on A Study in Delulu

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 25, 2025 · 334 words

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.

July 23, 2025 · 436 words

The Kitchen Is a Crime Scene

Now, even lifting a knife feels like betrayal. My hands tremble when I try to cook for myself. Not because I’ve forgotten how, But…

July 20, 2025 · 741 words

Night 1 — I Dont Want Two Cents.

Ageing is costly. A retinol cream can set you back 10 to 15 thousand rupees. Diluting it with tears is probably the worst return on…

August 31, 2023 · 342 words