Nida Farid
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Tag: writing
Please stop telling boys that “Men Don’t Cry”. When you tell boys that it is not OK to cry, you are instead making them suppress their pain. You are encouraging the rhetoric, even if you don’t use the words, that it is OK for Men to get angry, but is not OK for them to…
The trawler rumbles across the grey tidal flats, bringing back a group of people and picking up new passengers to take a kilometre out where there are better pickings of shellfish. The passengers getting off all have full bags. Hmm, I wonder what they found? Clams, oysters, conches, crabs, mussels, scallops? They are going to…
Today, I am excited to introduce you to the main characters of my book, “The Extraordinary Life of Riz”. You may have noticed them on the book cover, too. The illustrations are by my sister, Sama N. Izhar, who is an animator in her day job, and has worked on countless animated movies and TV…
Today I am very excited to reveal the final book cover for “The Extraordinary Life of Riz.” You may have already seen this in some of my social media posts. But if not, I wanted to inform you of the progress in this blog, as well. Thank you to all of you who voted in…
The car rolled over the hill, and a hundred shades of green unfolded before her. Her heart and breath stopped. Every part of her body was focused on the view before her. The valley below could be called agricultural land by those without a heart. But there would be very few who could remain unaffected…
The hermit crab froze. His ivory and orange striped pincers suspended mid-step in the air, as he looked at the crow in front of him. The crow continued poking at the bush in front of her, trying to see if there was a dead branch it could use for her nest. Then she went back…
