Firdaus Parvez

Of Daughters

This time she’s coloured her hair bright blue. She sends me a picture, I wince. It’ll take time to get used to it. I tell her I love it. So she sends it to my mother.

evening breeze
rustles through
another day
gradually turns
into yesterday

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About the Author 

Firdaus Parvez lives in Aligarh, a town close to New Delhi, India. She writes short stories, flash fiction, and poems about love and loss, family and relationships, stumbling across them in folds of ordinary lives. She has a few published works both online and in print.