Tag Archives: Raheema Sayyid-Andrews

Got a teenager at home? Think (s)he has a novel or a short story nestling at the back of his/her head just waiting to get out? And what of teenagers in general? Agree that they have lost a lot of the skills that adolescents in your time had, including critical …

I have known empty; I have lived empty many times in my life. There’s the running on empty that goes well beyond the mere Monday to Friday exhaustion spawned by the world of work. The bone-deep lassitude that slowly but steadily seeps into your soul and its spread is similar …

Sometimes she just can’t help herself. She looks at him and her mind just drifts back to the first time, the very beginning of everything that would eventually become them. She would laugh to herself and at herself because, honestly, if someone had told her years ago that he would …

Raheema Sayyid-Andrews offers another instalment in the continuing story of being in love even after marriage: You are standing in front of the closet in your underwear, mentally cursing at those phantom five pounds, the five pounds that you can feel and everyone else can see, and shaking your head …

Budding author Raheema Sayyid-Andrews looks in on a chilly night in lover’s lane: She stares at the wall. It was not in appreciation of the creamy peach paint or the painting that graced it, although she had recently heard that the artist was raking in some serious dough now. She …

“Other women will fall in love with your husband.” These are not words you want to hear, especially while the blush and glow of your first anniversary is heating your blood and warming your soul. No, you do not want to hear those words, especially not from your father. You …

Budding author Raheema Sayyid-Andrews shares another powerful love story with Wired868:  “I missed you,” he says. She has just stepped through the door and he meets her at the threshold and wraps his arms around her. Her face finds its place between his neck and shoulder and she breathes in his …

Budding author Raheema Sayyid-Andrews shares an enduring love with Wired868: When she was eleven, she fell in love. There were no fireworks or lightning bolts but it was intense, life-altering… and forever. It was the first time she read a romance novel. It was written by Barbara Cartland, set in the …