The truth is that, when I started drawing a paddy field, in my mind, I was going to talk about how serene, how beautiful those paddy...

Efua Sutherland did not just begin writing after inspiring ideas and thoughts nudged her mind or after scribbling about. It was...

Although the metrical system in English poetry is predominantly qualitative, quantitative meter, too, has been attempted in English...

Introduction The aim was to write something termed as micro-science fiction prototype or Micro-SFP. Micro-SFPs are complete stories in...

This drawing is based on the heatwave that struck Canada and North America this past week. The heatwave's intensity can be gathered from...

When studying English poetry, repeated mention of terminologies such as, stressed syllable and unstressed syllable are hard to miss, and...

Introduction I’ve been a science fiction fan since forever, growing up on the likes of Isaac Asimov, Arthur C Clarke, Larry Niven, Jerry...

Anapest is antidactylus because it is the reverse of dactyl. What is dactyl? Refer to O's earlier commentary on dactyl, or let us simply...

PART II “Yes, that is correct indeed,” she nodded slowly in agreement. She had not thought of it that way. This was what made discussions...

If the name Helianthus Annuus took you aback, please don't be alarmed, let me assure you it, indeed, is our very own common sunflower....

A travel enthusiast who toured most of the Arab world in search of religious and linguistic knowledge including Gaza, Cairo, Mecca,...

An iamb, trochee and spondee are two-syllabic feet in a verse. A dactyl is a three-syllabic foot in a verse. In a dactylic meter a...

Introduction This story was developed in two days around a small paragraph I had written quite a while back. And that was: ​ "What would...

Industrialisation has been a major leap towards economic prosperity but the impact it has had on our environment today is tremendous....

Like an iamb, a trochee, and a spondee, a pyrrhus, too, is a type of foot in a metrical feet. While a spondee is a pair of stressed...

Introduction The origin of this short fiction began as an exercise using writing prompts. I listen to lectures by Brandon Sanderson and...

WARNED © Sylvia Stults The sands of time have rendered fear Blue skies on high no longer clear Stars were bright whence they came Now...

War poetry, as a genre, is hugely popular. These poems vividly paint the trauma, the pain, the loss, the atrocities and every nightmare...

PART IV The box itself was made of dark wood with dimensions of 36x36x36 cm. She looked inside. It had some dense machinery along the...

PART III Jack laughed. "No, not someone's brain. A Boltzmann Brain. And I assure you I did not crack open Boltzmann's brain and steal it....