To Find a Dream, fiction by Marzia Rahman at Spillwords.com
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To Find a Dream

To Find a Dream

written by: Marzia Rahman

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“It’s very important to have dreams. It gives our life purpose,” the woman in yellow sari says with a big smile. She is a psychiatrist. She works in Shanti Clinic.
There are two other doctors in the clinic, but they don’t talk or laugh much. Maybe they don’t have dreams in their lives.
We are having group therapy. There are five of us of different ages and sizes with different sorrows and woes, but we have one thing in common—we have all lost ourselves. And this fine lady with freckles all over her face will fix us. Does she have a husband? A secret boyfriend who will fill her with dreams but will bring chaos too. She should keep her eyes open, heart closed. She should not waste her time asking silly questions.
She asks me again, “What is your dream?”
I had so many dreams. Where did all my blue dreams go? I bit my nails. I look around. Six faces looking at me, waiting. I need to find at least one tangible dream. It comes to me suddenly. My eyes sparkle. I smile and reply, “My dream is to find a dream.”

Marzia Rahman

Marzia Rahman

Marzia Rahman is a Bangladeshi writer and translator. Her flashes have appeared in 101 Words, Postcard Shorts, Five of the Fifth, The Voices Project, The Pangolin Review, Fewerthan500.com, WordCity Literary Journal, Red Fern Review, Dribble Drabble Review, Paragraph Planet, Six Sentences, Academy of the Heart and Mind, Potato Soup Journal, Borderless Journal, The Antonym, Flash Fiction Festival Four and Writing Places Anthology UK. Her novella-in-flash Life on the Edges was longlisted in the Bath Novella-in-Flash Award Competition in 2018. Her novella-in-flash If Dreams had wings and Houses were built on clouds was longlisted in the Bath Novella in Flash Award Competition in 2022. Her translations have appeared in a number of anthologies. Her translation of Syed Shamsul Haq’s The Aftermath (Ditiyo Diner Kahini) has been published by ULAB Press in 2022. Rahman is currently working on a collaborative translation project on Shahaduz Zaman’s Ekjon Komlalebu and Saleha Chowdhury’s Ekjon Jushnara’s Galpa. She is working on a series of flashes too. She is also a painter.
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