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Get your hands on the first part of the series and embark on a journey full of emotions. From messy to stability – this is a coming of age story about a girl who no longer knows her grounding. Will she ever recover or is it always going to be a whirl-town for her?

“Red Sugar, No More” as the title signifies is about relationships and feelings gone wrong. They are just no longer healthy for the protagonist. Each blurted rhyme within this chapbook is born out of inner most feelings; from fear to loss, joy to love & mental issues. Its themes include bullying, friendship, betrayal, pain, feminism, sexism, societal pressure, victimization and amoral foolishness, defeat, standing back up, sleep paralysis, paranoia, anxiety as well as depression and suicide. It’s a coming of age story about a girl who loses her grounding after finding out that life isn’t black and white. It’s an amalgamation of so many other colours. It’s going to be a book series. In this part, she has just started writing and catharting … everything is messy just like her words. The main theme being healing is messy but necessary.

Sijdah Hussain is a debut poet & writer who works as a Content Marketer in Lahore, Pakistan. While her writing is mostly based on her experiences and other real-life inspirations, it does have a flavour of hyperbole at some points. She first got the idea to turn her messy songs into a chapbook when she started to see a pattern in them. They were all intertwined intricately to form something more than just one poem or two. You can connect to her via Instagram (@sijdah). Just know that you are not alone in this world even when you feel like it’s the end. She’s here to help you be your own saviour just as she was her own because at the end – no one else can do it for you!