This is what the stars to which we shall return would see us as—two separate biological arrangements linked together by the pain one inflicted upon the other without even knowing it.

— Shoaib Rashdi, Our Inauspicious Stars

Copy Share WhatsApp

Our Inauspicious Stars

by Shoaib Rashdi

Tragedy · 20 pages

See the book Read a free sample

About the author

Shoaib Rashdi

Shoaib Rashdi, an aspiring polymath, began his literary career in 2018 when his short story entitled Birth to a Dancing Star became a finalist in Literati – South Asian Award for Micro-Fiction Seas…

View profile

More quotes on Success

See All

“All other lights in my room are switched off and just a little bit of light is coming from the street through the window from where mama is looking out of it in stillness.”

— Muhammad Shahroz, Redemption

“The light coming through the window is dispersed as though being reflected through a prism dancing in the light of its own.”

— Muhammad Shahroz, Redemption

“Suffice it to say, by the time he was done, I was nothing but a self-loathed piece of filth, disgust and sins with nothing but hatred flowing through my body.”

— Saman Malik, Letters from Nowhere

“Shema Bukhari – an author and a writer is always striving to learn new things.”

— Shema Bukhari, Earthlings - The Weaklings