Take the Hint!

By S. H. Miah

I'm Zakariya, and I'm an innocent man. I like cat videos, for crying out loud. How much more innocent can you get?

Then why's everyone acting strange around me?

And what's Oliver-bhai saying about marriage?

A comedic short story by Muslim Fiction Project, that will certainly have you laughing out loud.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Muslim Fiction Project
• Release date: Apr 17, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223776901

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Take the Hint!

S. H. Miah

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Muslim Fiction Project

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This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

Contents

Take the Hint!

About MFP

About S. H. Miah

Take the Hint!

My earliest memory is of diving in water. It was like a toilet, water flushing around me as if someone had pressed the button and now I was being drowned. Hands grabbed at me, I recall, pushing me further into the depths of each wave.

Someone wanted to kill me!

At least, that’s what my primitive brain understood at that young age. My mum tells me I was, what, a week old at that point. And it was her treacherous hands that had pulled me under the water and almost drowned me.

A psychology class in uni said that all trauma could be linked back to parents. In my case, it certainly was.

Mysteriously, despite remembering not much else around that time, I remember the traumatic experience that still shakes me to the core even now.

Zakariya, get down here, please.

Is someone speaking? I pull off my headphones—I was watching cat videos on YouTube, in particular one of