I've started these series of short stories, and this one is also inspired by something I used to read.

There was an Urdu digest that I used to read, and my mother-in-law still reads it. It had these little stories, often so short that you had no idea where they had come from or what they were about to turn into. And that was part of the fun. You never knew until the very end whether you were reading suspense, a thriller, horror, or something else entirely.

The stories were usually marked as translated versions or extracts. Sometimes, the translations were so distorted that you couldn't even make sense of what you'd just read. Nevertheless, I enjoyed them. They were interesting, even if the writing wasn't exactly of the highest literary quality. There was a certain charm to them.

And that's the format I've tried to recreate with my own stories.

I feel that too many disclaimers and explanations can take away from the very experience these stories are meant to offer. Sometimes, the fun lies in not knowing what you're reading until the very end.

So yeah!