Mentee Ayah Al-Masyabi recently published an essay, “The Weight of Uncertainty” in The Mantlepiece.
August 2024
Mentee Ayah Al-Masyabi recently published an essay entitled, “The Weight of Uncertainty” in The Mantlepiece, a monthly literary journal, featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, travel writing, book reviews, light verse, and poetry.
It feels like I exist in a world where fragile
Ayah Al-Masyabi, Mentee, “The Weight of Uncertainty”
strings hold everything up and I only can see
the way those strings shake and threaten to
surrender to gravity. I can’t help but do anything
that can make me feel less of its pressure.