Ishq
ISHK
n.Consuming love, of a kind that reorganises the person feeling it.
Arabic, widely used in Urdu and PersianEstablished linguistic term
The Thing That Eats
His mother noticed before he did, which is how these things go.
"You've stopped arguing with me," she said, in March, over the accounts.
"I'm agreeing with you."
"You have never agreed with me. In twenty-six years." She put the ledger down. "Who is she?"
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There is a word for what happened to Faraz, and he had known it since he was a child, and he had always assumed it was a decoration. Something poets said. His father used it about mangoes.