Amy Slanger

Chor Bakr: The City of the Dead

It was here that something in me felt most alive

April 14, 2026 · 592 words

A Practical Guide to Visiting the Country You Were Born In

With special focus on locating places that no longer exist

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 23, 2026 · 2,291 words

Motherhood

What We Brought With Us

It happened slowly.

March 7, 2026 · 1,456 words

The Stranger at the Oasis

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

March 6, 2026 · 647 words

The Only Thing That Didn’t Change

Fifteen years later, we met at an airport.

March 3, 2026 · 953 words

Motherhood

The Cab Driver Who Had a 30-Year Plan

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

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 · 628 words

Some People Don’t Come Back. They Just Continue Inside You.

The brain doesn’t hold on to people. It builds pathways around them.

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 13, 2026 · 767 words

Humans Are the Only Animal That Knows It Will Die

And this changes how we live

February 4, 2026 · 1,097 words

Post-Expectation Delirium

When Meaning Doesn’t Arrive

February 4, 2026 · 693 words

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

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

January 12, 2026 · 574 words

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

Because they do not have what I am wrapped in.

January 6, 2026 · 889 words

God

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.

December 12, 2025 · 588 words

My Issue With Ghosts

Entities with unlimited powers and zero output.

December 11, 2025 · 1,109 words

A Pilgrimage Back to Earth

In the barren stillness of South Africa, I learned why some appear “mad,” and others appear “whole.”

December 9, 2025 · 964 words

Annual Performance Review in December

My DNA Is 70% Human, 20% Hibernating Bear and I am still figuring remaining 10%

December 5, 2025 · 1,017 words

Mental Health

Why Overthinkers Would Survive the Apocalypse

And make even the zombies reconsider their life choices.

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 20, 2025 · 1,034 words

Bedtime Story

A scientifically accurate breakdown of why your “random” life is actually just physics showing off, hopefully will make you go to sleep.

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 14, 2025 · 779 words

Motherhood

The Guava Tree That Grew Up With Me

Childhood was Green.

October 28, 2025 · 1,538 words

Jeeti Raho

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

October 18, 2025 · 874 words

The Day We Walked Into a Curse

About friendship, pride, and a cursed fort

October 15, 2025 · 515 words

Everything’s Fine, Except Everything

Some days I’m not breaking down, just slowly dissolving into fluorescent light.

October 14, 2025 · 890 words

God

Entropy, Served with Kachori

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

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.

September 24, 2025 · 797 words

Family

Good Girls and Their Monsters

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

September 21, 2025 · 800 words

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 · 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

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.

August 29, 2025 · 845 words

Affirmations

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

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 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 19, 2025 · 521 words