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Of Possession and Potential: Mehak Khan's 'Jinns' was exciting until it wasn't

Of Space and Slavery: Khizer Abbas's 'Ignition' presents an entertaining premise but doesn't really deliver

Of Mothers and Magic: Nur Nasreen Ibrahim's 'Picture of a Dying World' was a complicated, entertaining mess

Of Grief and Gluttony: Marium Taufeeq's 'The Sadness Eater' is good, fun storytelling

Of Cyborgs and Close-minded Societies: Hamza Sarfraz's 'Being a Putla' tries to introduce something cool but ultimately fails

Of Mughals and Myths: Fatima Taqvi's 'The Third Feather' blends history and fantasy together in cool but confusing ways

Of Vengeance and Very Bad Editing: Murtaza Mohsin's 'Thus Gone' deserved a better proofreader

Of Speaking and Sorrow: Nazuk Iftikhar Rao's 'Word Rations' has a good plot but poor execution

Of Patience and Pain: Marium Asif's 'Rain in the Potholes' is what all short stories should be like

Of Babies and Butchery: Dur e Aziz Amina's 'You Get What Is Yours' is one of the better Salam Award winners

Of Stories and Staleness: Nihal Ijaz Khan's 'The Smokecense of Pluvistan' feels like squandered potential