Theme: Meet Cute Genre: Romance Meet Cute At Dinner The restaurant occupied the entire seventh floor of the building, its open-air section overlooking a city that glittered beneath the night sky. A warm breeze drifted through the space, carrying the scent of charcoal, spices and grilled food from the buffet area. Around her, clusters of…
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Timeless Tales #002 | The Emperor’s New Clothes شہنشاہ کے نئے کپڑے | Hans Christian Andersen
شہنشاہ کے نئے کپڑے بہت عرصہ پہلے ایک بادشاہ تھا جسے نئے کپڑوں کا اس قدر شوق تھا کہ وہ اپنا سارا خزانہ لباس پر خرچ کر دیتا تھا۔ اسے نہ اپنی فوج کی فکر تھی، نہ تھیٹر کی، نہ شکار کی سیر کا شوق تھا۔ اگر کسی چیز میں اسے حقیقی خوشی…
Timeless Tales #002 | The Emperor’s New Clothes | Hans Christian Andersen
Timeless Tales Note: This classic work is in the public domain and is reproduced here for readers to enjoy and discover. All rights belong to the original author and their legacy; this edition is shared solely because the work is no longer protected by copyright. THE EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES Many years ago, lived an emperor…
Unwritten #000
I get story ideas faster than I can realistically write them. Some arrive as a single scene. Some come with endings attached. Some disappear within hours if I don’t write them down immediately. For a long time, I treated those ideas like unfinished treasures I had to protect until I had enough time, energy, or…
Book Review | The Shadow | Hans Christian Andersen
The Shadow by Hans Christian Andersen This is the imaginative tale of a vain Emperor who is hilariously deceived due to his own vanity and dihonesty. The Emperor, who is swindled by two crooks posing as weavers, is fooled because of his desire to be both handsome and wise. In the end, the naked…
Timeless Tales #001 | The Tell-Tale Heart دی ٹیل-ٹیل ہارٹ | Edgar Allan Poe
دی ٹیل-ٹیل ہارٹ(راز فاش کرنے والا دل) سچ ہے! میں اعصابی ہوں، بہت زیادہ اعصابی۔ ہمیشہ سے رہا ہوں۔ مگر آپ مجھے پاگل کیوں کہتے ہیں؟ اس بیماری نے میرے حواس کو کمزور نہیں کیا، بلکہ اور زیادہ تیز کر دیا ہے۔ خاص طور پر میری سماعت۔ میں زمین اور آسمان کی بے…
Timeless Tales #001 | The Tell-Tale Heart | Edgar Allan Poe
Timeless Tales Note: This classic work is in the public domain and is reproduced here for readers to enjoy and discover. All rights belong to the original author and their legacy; this edition is shared solely because the work is no longer protected by copyright. THE TELL-TALE HEART True! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous…
Timeless Tales #000
So, after finishing my first Agatha Christie novel, reading Edgar Allan Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart, and Hans Christian Andersen’s The Emperor’s New Clothes, I found myself thinking about something I had somehow overlooked for years: The public domain is full of genuinely good stories. Not “important” stories that people pretend to enjoy, not books that…
Book Review | The Emperor’s New Clothes | Hans Christian Andersen
The Emperor’s New Clothes by Hans Christian Andersen This is the imaginative tale of a vain Emperor who is hilariously deceived due to his own vanity and dihonesty. The Emperor, who is swindled by two crooks posing as weavers, is fooled because of his desire to be both handsome and wise. In the end,…
Book Review | The Tell-Tale Heart | Edgar Allan Poe
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe A murderer is convinced that the loud beating of his victim’s heart will give him away to the police. Author Author, poet, and literary critic, Edgar Allan Poe is credited with pioneering the short story genre, inventing detective fiction, and contributing to the development of science…