This section is dedicated to literary works such as poetry, short stories, flash fiction, fiction, and prose written by AAU students.
Poetry
Shade of Rain
Red as a Leaf
Falling from the trees
so is my heart
Why Panic if he
is blue and you are
a shade of rain
It will only be
What it...
Her Routine
Sunday has just ended, and as the sun begins its battle with the night, fighting for it’s chance to breathe once more, an alarm...
Forgotten treasures
Wiped out of memory, gone childhoods and old hometowns,
Left in the past, first loves, and fears, and doubts.
We treasure what beckons our...
Long Reads
Elshan
At this time of the day, the boulevard was full of people. The moon and the stars were bright, their lights twinkling, shaded by...
Rahul
India can be a strange place. Your whole life is based around elders shielding you from the opposite sex and teaching you to be...
On the Premises of Death
We all crave suspense, adrenaline, danger, fear. Not all of us show it, but it’s a part of our psychology. Freud named this impulse...
Xenophobia in Prague in the Era of Globalization
“You don’t want to move here.” He chuckles into a sigh with this slightly foreboding warning, but it doesn’t seem like it’s meant to...
Behind Closed Doors in an Irish Household
Ballyfermot, Ireland—I patiently follow Dennis’ shiny black leather shoes as they shuffle up the driveway, up to the small, white two-story house. Dennis gets...