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What is your creative vehicle?
Mine keeps changing
Aug 20 • 
Sha Kepli
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Reading Women
When I first read Audrey Niffenneger's book The Time Traveller's Wife in my early 20s, it was a book that was symbolic only to me, of my rebellion.
Jul 23 • 
Sha Kepli
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The Man
A short story
Jun 25 • 
Sha Kepli
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Apr 30 • Sha Kepli
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How to Become a Superhero
May 14 • Sha Kepli
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Pocket Friends
May 28 • Sha Kepli
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Snails and Blue Pea
May 23, 2024 • Sha Kepli
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Advice for My Daughters
Jul 10, 2024 • Sha Kepli
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Another Day of Waiting
Aug 21, 2024 • Sha Kepli
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Feline Dreams
The first one was a snow leopard chasing me at a night market, its fangs glinting under the fluorescent lights over stalls of green bananas and cheap…
Jun 11 • 
Sha Kepli
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Pocket Friends
How humans make connections and how connections make us humans
May 28 • 
Sha Kepli
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How to Become a Superhero
(in your children's eyes)
May 14 • 
Sha Kepli
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Google says quack quack quack
Last night, while putting bread back into the refrigerator, I stood up too fast and knocked my head on the freezer door.
Apr 30 • 
Sha Kepli
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We're fine, we're fine, no, we're fine...
There are thirteen mango trees in the neighbourhood, twenty-four frangipanis in four different colours.
Apr 16 • 
Sha Kepli
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A postcard on living
I am sitting at my desk, as I usually do, working on the new book this year.
Apr 2 • 
Sha Kepli
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The end of writing my memoir
It is Ramadhan and the days feel shorter somehow.
Mar 12 • 
Sha Kepli
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The Mothering Barely Project
The Mothering Barely Project
Writings on writing, memoirs, mothering, and sometimes, fiction.
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