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Carah A. Naseem

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in New York, The United States

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Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Short Stories

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Carah A. Naseem longs to share a drink of the life-giving waters with her reader, through her words. Her first novel, Pith & Amber, has been published by Fugue State Press in 2012. She has had short stories and poems published at Right Hand Pointing, For Every Year, and Upton Thoroughfare. If you need her, you can find her cooking, dreaming, and writing nine million unwritten odes to the love that all creatures some day learn to express.

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“I had the whole sky in my eyes and it was blue and gold.”
― Albert Camus

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“I had drunk so deeply of grief and innocently gambled so hard with fate and irony that a special kind of vision was gathering in my eyes, not entirely clear just yet. This was the same look people saw in your eyes when you have died for beauty and come to live accepting nature as life with no promise of paradise, and mad at people who couldn't see that.”
― Martin Prechtel, Secrets of the Talking Jaguar: Memoirs from the Living Heart of a Mayan Village

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