Mehreen Ahmed is an award-winning Australian novelist, born in Bangladesh. Her historical fiction The Pacifist is an Audible bestseller. She is a featured writer on Flash Fiction North and Connotation Press, a reader for The Welkin Prize and Five Minutes, and a juror for KM Anthru International Prize. Her works have appeared in The Best Asian Speculative Fiction Anthology, Cambridge University Press, University of Hawaii Press, Michigan State University Press, ISTE, Call-ej, University of Kent Press, The Sheaf: University of Saskatoon, Writer's Digest: Six Sentences, IceFloe Press, Litro Magazine, Otoliths, RogueAgent: Sundress Publication, and many more. You can find her on Twitter: @Ahmed2Mehreen and Instagram: @mehree_24.
Short story by Mehreen Ahmed: ‘As soon as she stepped out of the cubicle, the ‘ghost’ disappeared. Perhaps, it was an optical illusion. Like a rainbow where people saw only the colours, not the water particles behind the veil.’