HAIBUN

Handwritten Letters Of Grandma

Emotions trapped in those pages

Line-art by Lubna Yusuf

Timeline: Late 1990s

My grandmother’s unblinking eyelashes remained fixated on the door. Every day, she made these random visits to the door at the time the old postman’s old cycle bell’s sound reached her ears-cring cring. She stood standing in front of the gate, waiting. The…