Amy Slanger

Nothing Exploded

2025: The Year I Didn’t Win, I Just Didn’t Lose.

December 23, 2025 · 672 words

A Birthday, Quietly

On turning thirty-six

December 23, 2025 · 689 words

A Letter to My Ancestors

I Have Issues and It’s Your Fault.

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 13, 2025 · 174 words

Kelaidoscope (Yes, I Still Can’t Spell It)

A tiny philosophy for turning everyday chaos into unexpected beauty

December 12, 2025 · 588 words

My Issue With Ghosts

Entities with unlimited powers and zero output.

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 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 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 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 8, 2025 · 902 words

Why I Judge People Who Run Marathons

Run your marathons. I’ll run my mouth

December 8, 2025 · 519 words

The Smoke That Escaped Before I Could

A quiet moment on a wet, dark road, where the cigarette smoke left the car long before I did.

December 5, 2025 · 1,017 words

Why Overthinkers Would Survive the Apocalypse

And make even the zombies reconsider their life choices.

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

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 · 1,274 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 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 · 646 words

Cats

The Tick in My Ceiling Fan

A tiny noise kept me awake for years.

November 21, 2025 · 650 words

It’s Meaning Enough

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

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 20, 2025 · 773 words

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 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 · 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 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 8, 2025 · 589 words

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 7, 2025 · 606 words

Jaagte Raho

Every night, someone stayed awake so we could dream.

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 30, 2025 · 700 words

How Fishes Learnt to Fly

A modern myth about who’s allowed to breathe.

October 28, 2025 · 1,538 words

Jeeti Raho

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

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 · 689 words

To the Shimmering Lights Hanging from the Balcony

A letter to an object that makes me so happy

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 21, 2025 · 493 words

The Museum of Uncried Tears

A guided tour through the exhibits that men were never allowed to feel.

October 18, 2025 · 874 words

The Day We Walked Into a Curse

About friendship, pride, and a cursed fort

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 16, 2025 · 961 words

Universal Consciousness, Explained Badly (But Honestly)

Symbols don’t sit quietly in dictionaries. They float like waves until we look at them, collapsing into fear, healing, or divinity.

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

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 · 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 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 7, 2025 · 154 words

It’s Complicated (With God)

Dude’s a Red Flag

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.

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 26, 2025 · 414 words

Inside a Mother’s Mind

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

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.

September 25, 2025 · 787 words

Rhythm Interrupted

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

September 24, 2025 · 156 words

Clots of Sadness

Sadness is not just endured. It is carried, cherished, and lived with.

September 24, 2025 · 564 words

Guilt, My Most Loyal Pet

Forget cats and dogs. The only pet that outlives you is guilt.

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

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 · 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

Where the Lanes Still Remember Us

A mosque and adjoining graveyard in a quiet village.

September 16, 2025 · 932 words

The Art of Getting Naked

Taking your clothes off isn’t the first step of nakedness; shame is stitched tighter

September 15, 2025 · 516 words

The Many Plants in My Garden

In the monsoon, my garden speaks louder than people ever do.

September 12, 2025 · 165 words

The Job I Wasn’t Supposed to Get

A mismatched outfit, zero elevator knowledge, and the reaction that changed everything.

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 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 4, 2025 · 179 words

How to Gaslight Yourself Efficiently

Gaslighting doesn’t need a partner in crime. Here’s how you can DIY

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 · 409 words

A Beginner’s Guide to Ruining Your Own Day

From WhatsApp neglect to tear-flavored parathas, here’s the foolproof routine for self-sabotage before 8:15 a.m.

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 29, 2025 · 845 words

Affirmations

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

August 28, 2025 · 507 words

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 27, 2025 · 434 words

The Sleep-Deprived Manifesto of a Woman Who Knows Everything and Still Checks Her Horoscope Twice

Because control is a myth, and I’ve got the color-coded breakdown to prove it.

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 25, 2025 · 578 words

The Crooked Thumb

Childhood was… cinematic.

August 25, 2025 · 1,373 words

How We Staged a Love Story in Maths Tuition

Maths: zero. Gossip algebra: full marks.

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 24, 2025 · 1,272 words

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

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 22, 2025 · 403 words

When Mental Illness RSVP’d Yes

Depression slumped in, Anxiety barged in, and Imposter Syndrome came dressed to impress. Dinner was doomed from the start.

August 21, 2025 · 395 words

Grief

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 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 18, 2025 · 337 words

The Hedge Grows, the Flowers Bloom and I Breathe

Pain has no name. It is not personal, not earned, not chosen. It simply grows, quietly at first, then wildly

August 17, 2025 · 763 words

JD on the Rocks, LIIT in a Coke Bottle

I almost made it into a Netflix true-crime doc, but at least I found freedom from my own ghosts.

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 11, 2025 · 731 words

How to Survive Life Without Thriving

A memoir for anyone whose coping mechanisms have their own coping mechanisms

August 9, 2025 · 372 words

How to ruin your own stability in style.

The line is a lie, people. Wake up.

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 7, 2025 · 265 words

The Door to Nowhere

Just when you’ve learned where your fingers go, How to move through the room with your eyes closed slow. When the kettle clicks just at the…

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 6, 2025 · 371 words

How to Not Cry in Public: A Guide by Someone Who Fails Every Time

Because once you let go, you’re done. And people? They stare. They pity. Or worse, they offer advice.

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 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 3, 2025 · 263 words

The Day Starts With My Autopsy

My soul has the whole day to roam around like dead body was just buried and I don’t know where is home.

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 .

August 1, 2025 · 385 words

God, Take My Imagination and Burn It — Part 1

Weekly continuation on A Study in Delulu

August 1, 2025 · 480 words

Thoughts from a Very Ordinary Day

Mercury retrograde. Murphy’s law. Me.

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 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 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 24, 2025 · 1,061 words

A Eulogy for My Overthinking Friend

If you’ve ever judged someone’s behavior without wondering what their brain might be battling, pause.

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 21, 2025 · 266 words

Home

Sometimes I feel like I should break open the walls of my house and walk through it barefoot. Feel the dust. Run my fingers along peeling…

July 21, 2025 · 444 words

The Voice in My Head I Call “It”

We all have a second brain. No, not the one below the pelvis. The other one.

July 20, 2025 · 741 words