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Why do we need to end a Story?

2/10/2021

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My body is a deep, dark ocean and I wait for waves to drown the memories of yesteryears. My heart is a wanderer, absorbed and solitary, wandering for ages, and looking for a place I can finally call home. My mind is a rebel telling people not to judge me for living my life on the edges. When the truth is, I have never lived and my prayers are never answered.  They have always returned to me unfulfilled. Do I need to make another prayer? Write another story. The new story won’t have an ending. Does every story need to end? Why can’t we leave a story unfinished, unresolved? Will that make it a lesser story? Or will it help to create something new, something unique. In that new story, I won’t die in exile but will find my way home. To start afresh. To write a new story with a new ending.


Author Bio:
Marzia Rahman is a Bangladeshi fiction writer and translator. She has an MA in English Literature from the University of Dhaka. Her articles, translations, book reviews, short stories and flashes have appeared in several local papers, journals and online magazines. Her article Bringing Light into Darkness (2008) has won her CSF Journalist Fellowship Award for best report. In 2016, her translated story "Helal was on his Way to Meet Reshma" has been featured in the anthology, The Book of Dhaka co-published by Comma Press, UK and Bengal Lights, Dhaka. In 2017, she has participated in the International Literary Translation and Creative Writing Summer School at University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK. Her novella-in-flash Life on the Edges has been long-listed in the Bath Novella-in-Flash Award Competition 2018. Rahman’s debut novel The Price of Freedom is in the offing.
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