Saqib Noor's Blog, page 4

The Midnight Promise

I fell asleep with a well of tears in my heart and I woke up suffocating in the solitude of my bedroom, under the apparent safety of my duvet.

An intruder had entered my room silently and lay on my waist, pounding down on my chest, compressing the air out of my lungs with the weight of all the gravity in the world. I squirmed with all my might but the attacker was unrepentant, slowly, purposefully, and agonisingly squeezing all the beats out of my heart.

I heaved, flayed my paralysed arms an...

Book release: The White And Black Book

A sad girl, frustrated with life, is preparing for another of life’s looming, endless exams. Whilst studying, she discovers a mysterious book in a majestic, enchanted library. This beautiful hand-made book has no name, no author and no publisher. And every time the girl opens the book, the book guides her through difficult and easy days, exciting and dull days, beautiful and ugly days, forgotten days, and days that will always last in her memory.

But where did the book come from? And why did...