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"A tiny possibility" — Five Poems by Carol Blaizy D’Souza

The quotidian can never cease to impress with great power the greater wonder that can emerge from everyday life and our lived experiences. These five poems by Carol Blaizy D’Souza move with subtle confidence across inner and outer geographies, often reflecting how travel and wandering also take plac

2025: An Inverse Year in Review

As we say goodbye to another year, here are the few but important pieces by our contributors and community that shaped 2025 at Inverse Journal.

The Curfewed Mind — A Short Story by Ghulam Mohammad Khan

In The Curfewed Mind, G.M. Khan paints an intimate portrait of life lived under perpetual restriction in an unnamed place, in an undisclosed location, in a region that could practically be anywhere and about which there is no certainty whatsoever. The story that unfolds is not one about political ev

"The butchery is the beginning / of memory" — Two Poems by Annah Atane

Nigerian poet Annah Atane presents two poems that inhabit the horror of war and massacre where collective catastrophe is confronted with private mourning. These verses draw their imagery from slaughter, war, and the fragility of hope and the despair where memory is born from “butchery.” “Scalpels on

"Nature and Observation" — A Series of Artworks by Srijani Dutta

Srijani Dutta presents a series of twenty one works entitled "Nature and Observation". In this series, the artist looks at birds, sunsets, dawns, trees, forests, water bodies and everything that can be found in nature and transferred from view into imagination and from imagination into picturesque m

The Manual of Survival: For Those Who Stayed — A Short Story by Fendy S. Tulodo

All the way from Malang, Indonesia, Fendy S. Tulodo presents the story of a young Kashmiri boy named Q who writes and collects his rap lyrics in a manual “for surviving his streets.” The story blends reflection, details about Kashmiri culture from the perspective of a visitor, and the quiet revelati

“Pilgrim Blues” and “Like Waiting” — Two Poems by Junaid Ahmed Ahangar

At the crossroads where the quotidian, the fantastic and the mystical meet, Junaid Ahmed Ahangar presents two poems that, in one way or another, collectively dive into the interplay between imagination, memory and ethical reflection. The first poem, “Pilgrim Blues”, is the stage for a surreal lucid