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Mason Carter

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Hi, I’m Mason Carter (born Mushahid Syed). I’m a poet, fiction writer, translator, and academic with a love for exploring themes like social justice, autonomy, and the ways people come together in communities. I studied English Literature at Shah Abdul Latif University and the International Islamic University, where I wrote my master’s thesis on communes and utopias in literature.

I’ve been teaching since 2017 and currently work as a lecturer in English Language & Literature at Shah Abdul Latif University. Teaching is one of my biggest joys—it keeps me learning and growing every day.

I started writing poetry and fiction back in 2010, drawing inspiration from writers like Edgar Allan Poe, William Blake, Khalil Gibran, Samuel Beckett, and many
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“Anger, surprisingly, often follows social hierarchies. Many people easily express anger toward those who are less powerful—a waiter, a child, a junior employee—but suppress it when mistreated by someone more powerful, such as a boss, police officer, or a government body.”
Mason Carter, Critical Thinking Unchained: From Formal Logic to Dialectics of Emancipation

“To be intellectually humble is not to live in constant doubt. Rather, it’s to live with a mind open to correction, and a heart strong enough to prioritize truth over pride.”
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“I wake reaching for you,
fingers curling around nothing,
closing on air thick with absence.
You are not here, but my body does not believe it.
It still flinches at the shape of you,
at the memory of weight no longer there.
Somewhere beneath my skin,
you still exist.”
Mason Carter, Saltwater & Smoke: Poems of Almosts, Goodbyes, and What We Leave Behind

“Beneath the pallid gaze of waning skies,
I stood, a shadow where the darkness lies,”
Mason Carter, Gothic Poems to Love & Liberty: A Collection of Poems on Myths & Broken Hearts

“Oh, Perseus—your glory shall wither and fall,
In the shadow of serpents, you’ll hear my call.
Your victory is hollow, your name is a lie—
For I am the storm, and I shall never die.”
Mason Carter, Gothic Poems to Love & Liberty: A Collection of Poems on Myths & Broken Hearts

“The air is thick, the stone is cold,
These chains are rust, these years are old.
Darkness lingers, gnaws, decays,
A hollow tomb in endless days.”
Mason Carter, Gothic Poems to Love & Liberty: A Collection of Poems on Myths & Broken Hearts

“Back to the dark, my cursed throne,
I bear her forth, I stand alone.
Her breath is shallow, soft and dim,
Her pulse a song—a fleeting hymn.”
Mason Carter, Gothic Poems to Love & Liberty: A Collection of Poems on Myths & Broken Hearts

“Her breath, a perfume laced with midnight’s bloom,
Her skin, a canvas brushed with lunar gloom.
She lies, a mountain range of flesh and might,
And I, a pilgrim, kneel to kiss her light.
Her neck, a column where the ancients wrote,
I trace with tongue, each vein, each whispered note.”
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