I believe the following excerpts from some of the news organisations from the past few weeks will speak for itself : "....deadly floods...

We associate rhyme with sound and it mainly is to do with the aural sense. However, an eye rhyme is an exception; it is a rhyme that...

Did you know that one sanitary pad takes about 500 to 800 years to decompose! Naturally, the environmental hazards that come with all...

Rhyme is not new to us. Nursery rhymes, the most popular types of rhymes, have a certain quality to them — perhaps why we retain them in...

Introduction Brevity is the soul of wit. A haiku, in my opinion, is the purest form of poetry. It encapsulates an idea in a few choice...

Efua Sutherland did not just begin writing after inspiring ideas and thoughts nudged her mind or after scribbling about. It was...

Although the metrical system in English poetry is predominantly qualitative, quantitative meter, too, has been attempted in English...

Introduction The aim was to write something termed as micro-science fiction prototype or Micro-SFP. Micro-SFPs are complete stories in...

This drawing is based on the heatwave that struck Canada and North America this past week. The heatwave's intensity can be gathered from...

Introduction I’ve been a science fiction fan since forever, growing up on the likes of Isaac Asimov, Arthur C Clarke, Larry Niven, Jerry...

Anapest is antidactylus because it is the reverse of dactyl. What is dactyl? Refer to O's earlier commentary on dactyl, or let us simply...

PART II “Yes, that is correct indeed,” she nodded slowly in agreement. She had not thought of it that way. This was what made discussions...

Introduction This story was developed in two days around a small paragraph I had written quite a while back. And that was: ​ "What would...

Like an iamb, a trochee, and a spondee, a pyrrhus, too, is a type of foot in a metrical feet. While a spondee is a pair of stressed...

Introduction The origin of this short fiction began as an exercise using writing prompts. I listen to lectures by Brandon Sanderson and...

PART IV The box itself was made of dark wood with dimensions of 36x36x36 cm. She looked inside. It had some dense machinery along the...

The glad demeanour and mischievous tones in Hunt's most shared and well known poems must come from the cheerful, sensitive and perceptive...

The acute attention to detail that the Japanese culture lends to every aspect of their life is unmistakable. One such aspect is Bunraku,...

At, O, we kickstart this section by celebrating and applauding this seventeenth century Spanish writer, ahead of all our other great...