shaibal's profile

I live close by sea somewhere in Wales, UK. The city is just small enough for me to breathe in and not large enough to get lost in. Here, I live in a small terraced house overlooking the railway line, shared with two humans and my affectionate little tabby cat.

Urbis is useful to me. The stories submitted here have generated useful comments that I had found hard to come by elsewhere. Most of my stories are published online on e-zines. They are not in print, however, I would actively seek publication should the chance arise. The tales ate self-conscious observations on life. The characters might be fictional or real perhaps somewhere in between. The narrator is sometimes myself and sometimes a fictional version of me. The storyteller t…

I live close by sea somewhere in Wales, UK. The city is just small enough for me to breathe in and not large enough to get lost in. Here, I live in a small terraced house overlooking the railway line, shared with two humans and my affectionate little tabby cat.

Urbis is useful to me. The stories submitted here have generated useful comments that I had found hard to come by elsewhere. Most of my stories are published online on e-zines. They are not in print, however, I would actively seek publication should the chance arise. The tales ate self-conscious observations on life. The characters might be fictional or real perhaps somewhere in between. The narrator is sometimes myself and sometimes a fictional version of me. The storyteller takes on different personalities depending on what is being unraveled. My main interest is the human condition. All that write is an attempted exploration of that condition. I take liberties with sentence structure, tense, syntax and punctuation. The idea is to break the conventions of acceptable language usage creatively and put together a prose that is at once interesting, challenging, but never difficult to read. This is somewhat different in style to my academic publications. I do welcome all critiques. The negatives are very important to me as they are the only way to improve what I write.

I am a pseudo academic outside of Urbis and presently trying to decide whether to do a PhD. My published academic articles are all on Philosophy, History of Religion or the Late Antique period. Presently, I am writing an academic book on the notion of a ‘clash of civilisation’ between Islamic and Western philosophy.

Thank you.