Shubnum Khan

Mad Girl’s Love Song

Mad Girl’s Love SongBy Sylvia Plath “I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;I lift my lids and all is born again.(I think I made you up inside my head.)The stars go waltzing out in blue and red,And arbitrary blackness gallops in:I shut my eyes and all the […]

The Girl On the Tarmac

One sunny day, when the air was hot, she lay on the tarmacfelt the heat burn her face, while the gravelly bits stuckto her cheek and poked her knees.‘Come to eat,’ her mother hollered.‘Oh, not again,’ she replied. She turned on her back and watched the hard skyblind her eyes […]