Bayaan Café: The Unknown Guest | When Silence Spoke Louder Than Words

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☕ On the wall of Bayaan Café, a new note was pinned:

“Some things are meant only to be heard, not answered.”
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And now, many names began to whisper beneath it —
‘A’ was no longer just Altaaf.
Perhaps it was Awaz (Voice), Adhuri (Incomplete), Ankahi (Unspoken), or Aghaaz (Beginning).

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📖 Neelofar’s Diary

For the first time, her diary was open — without fear.

She wrote:

“Even when he doesn’t speak, it feels as if he’s said something.
There’s a strange calm in Altaaf…
Or maybe I’m just tired of the noise now.”

Her fingers kept folding the corners of the pages —
each page a layer of an old time
now ready to unfold.

Neelofar saw Altaaf smile for the first time —
not too much, not too little…
just enough for a broken memory to dare to laugh again.

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🎞️ The Recorder played again — Tape #9

There was a faint voice in it —
perhaps Hamnaaz’s, or maybe another girl who no longer comes to the Café.

“You know, I stopped speaking that day…
the day someone laughed at my words for the first time.
That day was the funeral of my voice.”

At the end of the tape, only the sound of breathing remained —
as if someone was still there,
just unable to find the courage to speak.

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📚 Altaaf’s Book

One day, Neelofar asked Altaaf:
“Do you still write?”

He didn’t answer.
He just pulled out an old bag and took out a book —
its title read: “Words That Remained.”

There was no author’s name, no preface —
only incomplete sentences:

“I saw you… that day, when you sat quietly by the window.”
“If I had spoken… maybe the story would’ve been different.”
“You’re still the same — incomplete, yet complete.”

Neelofar opened the book,
and on one page, she found her own name —
that alone was enough for her.

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💭 Hamnaaz’s Presence

Hamnaaz had started staying late at the Café now.
She would write something on a paper, then tear it up.

Once, Neelofar noticed —
a piece had accidentally fallen to the floor.

On it, she had written:

“I have felt you — like wet earth in the rain,
marked by someone’s footprints…
and in every print, a story buried deep.”

Neelofar picked up the paper,
but didn’t return it.

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🚪 A New Guest

That evening, the Café bell rang differently.
At the door stood an old man —
a stick in his hand, eyes soaked in an old past.

“Excuse me… does Aarav still come here?”
his trembling voice asked.

Neelofar replied softly,
“No… he doesn’t come here anymore.
But his fragrance still does.”

The old man smiled faintly and said,
“He was my grandson… and the first dream of this Café.
When he left, he forgot his diary here.”

Neelofar’s hands trembled.
For the first time, she understood —
some people leave,
but their unfinished sentences
continue to live inside others.

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📍 Tagline for the Next Episode:
Some voices never return… yet they never truly stop either.

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☕ Bayaan Café | The Unknown Guest

Evening was fading.
The last orange rays of sunlight crept through the Café windows, reaching the tables like quiet memories.
A faint, soulful tune floated through the air —
that same Sufi melancholy that had become the Café’s identity.

Altaaf was unusually silent today.
He stood behind the counter, unmoved even by the aroma of coffee rising from the machine.
Then the Café bell rang. Someone had entered.

Before him stood a man — white hair, dusty eyes, a stranger’s face, and a scent that carried the memory of old books.
Altaaf’s gaze froze upon him…
and for a moment, time itself seemed to halt.

“One black coffee,” the man said. “No sugar.”

There was something in his voice —
something that knocked on a closed door inside Altaaf’s chest.
That voice reminded him of someone else.

As Altaaf placed the cup, his fingers trembled slightly.

“Have you been here before?” he asked softly.

The man smiled —
but it wasn’t the kind of smile that brought peace.

“I used to come… long ago, before you even worked here.
Back then, this wasn’t a Café — it was a small bookshop.”

Altaaf’s heart began to sink.

“You loved books, didn’t you?
And… Gulnaaz.”

That single name shattered the wall inside him.
Altaaf lowered his eyes, but something still spilled from them.
How many years had it been? Eight? Ten?

“Gulnaaz is dead,” Altaaf’s voice trembled.
“But even after her, something remains —
something that breathes here every day.”

“And that ‘something’…” the stranger said softly,
“is it me — or your memory?”

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Bayaan Café: The Voice That Returned – A Poetic Journey of Silence and Memory

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🕯️ Bayaan – Next Chapter: “The Voice That Returned”

That Sunday, for the first time, the sound of rain had seeped deep into the Café.

Nayra hadn’t ordered tea today.

Only an old tape recorder sat on the table — the same one that held Zaira Fatima’s last voice.

But today… before the recorder even played, another sound was heard.

Very faint — as if it came from another room —

“I’m learning again… to speak, without stealing anyone’s voice.”

Nayra turned her head — but there was no one there.

The mirror was no longer fogged — on its surface, every unfinished story shimmered like drops of water.

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📻 “Jin Ki Zubaan Chup Hai” – Page #34:

A new note had been added today.

“Is your voice also borrowed from someone?”

Below it was written:

“For the first time today… I heard the voice within me.
It was trembling, but it was mine.”

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📼 A New Recording

In the corner of the Café, where that old poet once used to sit — a new tape was found.

Only one line:

“If my voice returns… will you recognize me again?”

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📖 Another Line in Naksh-e-Khamoshi

In the book, someone had scratched something only with their fingers —
no words, just an outline.

It looked like a wave of sound — rising, then falling —
like a heartbeat… or a breath that stopped just before speaking.

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💌 Written in Nayra’s Diary:

“Some voices do return —
but they belong to someone else now.”

“Today I listened to my own silence —
and found that even it trembled with forgotten words.”

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☕ Something New on Bayaan’s Wall Now:

A wooden frame, holding nothing but the broken wire of a microphone.

Below it was written:

“Here sit those — who were never heard, yet still spoke.”

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🌫️ Final Scene:

Nayra placed that blue handkerchief once again on the fourth chair of the Café.

But this time, there was an embroidery on it —
under the letter “Z” another letter had appeared:

“N.”

“Perhaps now, my voice will live on… with Zaira’s.” – Nayra

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🎙️ Podcast Episode Title: “The Echo That Knew My Name”

Tagline:

“Sometimes the voice that returns… brings your name along with it.”

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The afternoon sun wasn’t too bright anymore.
Its rays filtered through the glass windows, spreading a golden hush inside Bayaan Café.
On table number seven, the same old cup of coffee had gone cold —
like an age of waiting that had quietly passed.

Nayra sat by the window, her gaze fixed on the road outside.
There was no promise walking that road anymore, no familiar footsteps.
And yet, something kept the silence alive.

The diary before her lay open, but she hadn’t written a new word —
as if everything had already been said,
only the one who could understand it had gone missing.

She ran her fingers over the pages —
as if touching a memory.
“Does any meeting ever become complete?”
she asked her heart.
And the answer came —

“No, only the incomplete meetings stay.”

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On the other side, Aarav no longer came to that café.
But his presence still lingered like a scent —
in the walls, in the books he had touched,
in that chair that had once waited silently for him.

“You know, Nayra… some things are only Bayaan — never proven.”
That was his last line.
And perhaps, his truest one.

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That day, a new face sat in the corner of the café —
a girl, quiet just like Nayra once was.
Her eyes were searching for something,
perhaps her own yesterday.

Nayra looked at her and smiled —
that smile which had now become a book.

At that moment, the air in the café carried a familiar scent —
of rain-soaked earth,
and of a feeling that once used to be Aarav’s presence.

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Bayaan Café was no longer merely a place that served coffee.
It had become a refuge for stories —
a shelter for unfinished conversations,
a resting place for those who hung their words on the wall to feel lighter again.

Nayra listened now — carefully.
Sometimes to silence,
sometimes to unspoken love,
and sometimes, to her own beating heart.

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🎭 Character Entries (Connecting to the previous chapters)

1. Neelofer:
Neelofer is the niece of the Café’s owner.
In her pauses and half-finished sentences hides a pain she has carried for years but never expressed.
She has returned from Delhi — carrying a broken marriage and exhausted dreams —
and now spends time in the Café, trying to gather herself again.

2. Hamnaaz:
Hamnaaz is a mysterious girl who often visits the Café.
She speaks little, but when she does, time seems to pause.
She lives nearby with her mother —
they say her mother was the Café’s first guest, even before it opened.
In Hamnaaz’s eyes lives the sorrow of an unfinished poem,
one she hides from the world.

3. Altaf (A new character, just arrived):
A weary writer, perhaps connected to Neelofer’s past —
or maybe searching for his unfinished story in Hamnaaz’s silence.
His secret is not yet revealed.

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Bayaan Café – Part 4: “Saaya” (The Shadow)

The rain had stopped,
but streaks of water still clung to the windows —
as if someone had written questions that no one dared to answer.

Neelofer sat again at the same corner table,
where her last conversation with Hamnaaz had remained incomplete.
Before her lay an open diary,
but her pen was still —
as though her words were seeking permission from some unspoken pain.

Then the door opened —
not with the jingle of a bell, but a soft sigh that came with the wind.

A tall, dusky man walked in.
He carried an old satchel in his hand,
and centuries of weariness in his eyes.
There was no hurry in his walk,
as if time itself had no claim on him.

He went straight to the counter,
then, without asking, walked toward that same corner table —
the one Farhan used to sit at.

Neelofer looked at him for the first time.
For a moment, something old seemed to turn back —
there was a trace of recognition in her eyes,
something she wanted to remember… but the name wouldn’t come.

Hamnaaz softly asked,

“Who is he?”

Neelofer replied,

“Maybe… a shadow… from an old time.”

His name was Altaf.
By profession, he was a writer —
but he no longer wrote books,
he only read people’s silences.

He used to say:

“Every person is a book,
and every silence is its deepest page.”

Altaf started coming to Bayaan Café every evening.
He neither talked much nor asked much.
Yet his presence spread like calm —
like a gentle hand placed on a wound of time.

Neelofer now found it easier to write again.
Hamnaaz no longer seemed as restless.

And Altaf… he simply sat there —
as if he were that part of a story that was never written into the pages.

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✨ The silence of Bayaan Café continues — between words, within hearts, and beneath the sound of rain that always returns. 🌧️

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Bayaan Café Ep. 2: The Voice That Was Borrowed

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✨ Bayaan – Next Chapter: “The Body is Gone… The Voice Remains”

That Saturday, something felt different in the Café.

The girl — the one everyone now simply called “the Bayaan girl” — was sitting before the “Map of Silence”, as always.
But this time, there wasn’t that old book in front of her...

Instead, there was a recorder.

A small one, with a blue button. On it was written a name: “Zaira Fatima”,
and below that — just one date: “14 July 2004.”

“Does this recorder still work?” Naira asked.

The girl smiled,

“No… not anymore. But its voice still lives.”

Then she played it — not by pressing the button, but just by touching it.

And a soft, chiming sound spread across the Café —
as if an old melody had bounced off the walls.

“If one day my voice remains, but I don’t…
then take it as my silence.
Because some stories don’t want words —
only existence.”
– Zaira’s voice

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“Those Whose Tongues Are Silent” – Page #21:

The girl added a new story —
this time, about a radio jockey.

Someone who spent her whole life preserving other people’s voices,
but never told anyone that she was born deaf.

Her eyes listened.
Her hands felt.
And when she spoke — every sound she made belonged to someone else.

“You can’t even imagine,” she said,
“when I speak — who is actually speaking.”

“I’ve stolen every voice —
from a mother calling her son,
from a fiancée’s laughter,
from an old man’s final prayer.”

💔 She — the one the world called “the thief of voices.”

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On the wall of Bayaan Café, there’s now a new picture —
of an empty chair marked with a “Z.”

Every Saturday, a small speaker is placed beneath that chair.
It never plays a sound…

Only sometimes, there’s a faint vibration in the air —
as if someone had spoken, but the words never reached anyone.

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☁️ The New Question:

A new question has been added to “Those Whose Tongues Are Silent”:

“Have you ever lived in someone else’s voice?”

People stay quiet,
but the answers are always given in front of that empty chair —
someone leaves behind a tear,
or just an envelope.

On the envelope is written:

“Give my voice… to the one who still knows how to listen.”

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🎙️ Podcast Episode Title: “The Voice That Was Borrowed”

Tagline:
Sometimes, your voice is the one someone else lost.

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🕯️ Bayaan – No. 1: “The Face That Wasn’t in the Mirror”

That evening, soft rain was tapping against the Café windows.

Naira was there, as always…
But today, he wasn’t sitting across from her.

Instead — there was that page he had left behind.
And on it, only one question was written:

“Have you ever seen someone — who was never really there?”

Naira kept reading that page for a long time.
Then she slowly walked toward the mirror —
the same old mirror that still stood behind the books.

The surface looked strange…
as if someone had drawn a face on it with their fingers.

But the face was incomplete —
one eye was missing. One smile was half-formed.

“This face… it isn’t his,”
Naira whispered to herself,
“Maybe it’s waiting… for someone.”

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🔮 A New Mark on the “Map of Silence”

That night, a new line appeared on the Map of Silence.

Someone — without words, without a name — had drawn only a single scar.

A scar that looked exactly like the mark
that remains on the palm after you let go of someone’s hand.

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The Mysterious Recording

From the old radio kept in the Café, a voice suddenly echoed:

“I have come again.
But this time, not to see you —
to remember you.”

Naira didn’t flinch.

She knew —
some voices don’t return; they just change their path.

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A Last Keepsake

That day, on the Café’s fourth chair, a blue handkerchief was found.

It carried a faint scent of perfume —
as if someone hadn’t said goodbye,
just paused for a little while.

Naira picked it up,
and added a new question to “Those Whose Tongues Are Silent”:

“If you had gone away… would your fragrance have stayed?”

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Tagline:
Some people don’t appear in mirrors —
because they don’t stand behind us…
they stand inside us.

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On one wall of Bayaan Café, there hangs a mirror —
small, a little worn around the edges,
but the reflection within it
often looks clearer than reality itself.

That evening, Naira sat alone.
A light blue scarf was slipping off her chair,
and in front of her was a cup of tea — cold,
like someone who’s grown used to waiting.

When she looked toward the wall,
the mirror seemed to breathe.

“You come every day,”
the mirror spoke for the first time —
its voice silky,
like an old song hiding beneath the dust.

Naira didn’t flinch.
Strange things in Bayaan Café always felt familiar.

“Do you wish to say something?”
the mirror asked.

Naira smiled, faintly.

“I do speak… by writing.
But sometimes, it feels like no one listens.”

The mirror stayed silent.
Then, on its surface, an old face appeared —
the elderly man who once read poetry on Bayaan’s radio,
the one who said, “Adab is more important than education.”

“Your voice still echoes here,”
the mirror said,
“in this wall,
in this silent tea,
and in the reels of that recorder.”

Naira softly asked —

“How many stories have you heard?”

Something rippled across the mirror’s surface.

“So many…
that if I ever began to speak,
every wall would start to write.”

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Bayaan – The Body Went, The Voice Stayed | Afsana Wahid’s Poetic Story of Silence, Memory & Echo

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✨ Bayaan – Next Chapter: “The Body Went… The Voice Stayed”

That Saturday, there was something different in the Café.

The girl — the one everyone now called “the Bayaan girl” — was sitting in front of the Map of Silence as always.
But this time, the old book wasn’t in front of her...

Instead, there was a recorder.

A small one, with a blue button.
On it was written a name: “Zayra Fatima”
And below, just a date — “14 July 2004.”

“Does this recorder work?” Naira asked.

The girl smiled,

“No… not anymore. But its voice is still alive.”

Then she played it — not by pressing the button, just by touching it.

And a soft tinkling sound echoed through the Café — as if an old raga had struck the walls.

"If someday my voice remains, and I don’t… then take it as my silence.
Because some stories don’t want words — just existence." — Zayra’s voice

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“Those Whose Tongues Are Silent” – Page #21:

That girl added a new story — this time, about a radio jockey.

One who spent her whole life preserving other people’s voices,
but never told anyone that she had been born deaf.

Her eyes used to listen.
Her hands used to feel.
And when she spoke, every word came borrowed — taken from someone else.

"You can’t imagine… when I speak, who is really speaking."

"I have stolen every voice — from a mother’s call to her son,
from a fiancée’s laughter, from an old man’s final prayer."

💔 “The one the world called — the Thief of Voices.”

Now, on the wall of Bayaan Café, there is a new photograph —
a picture of an empty chair with a “Z” carved on it.

Every Saturday, under that chair, a small speaker is placed.
No sound ever plays from it…

Only sometimes, a faint vibration passes through the air —
as if someone said something, but it wasn’t heard.

☁️ The New Question:

Now a new question has been added to the book “Those Whose Tongues Are Silent”:

"Have you ever lived in someone else’s voice?"

People stay quiet,
but the answers are often left before that empty chair —
someone leaves a tear, or just an envelope,
on which it is written:

"Give my voice to the one who still knows how to listen."

🎙️ Podcast Episode Title: “The Voice That Was Borrowed”

Tagline:
Sometimes your voice is the one someone else lost.

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🕯️ Bayaan – No. 1: “The Face That Wasn’t in the Mirror”

That evening, soft rain droplets were tapping on the Café’s windows.

Naira was there, as always…
But today, “that boy” wasn’t in front of her.

Instead — there was the page he had left behind.
On it, a single question was written:

“Have you ever seen someone — who never existed?”

Naira kept reading that page for a long time.
Then quietly, she walked toward the mirror —
the same old mirror still standing behind the shelves of books.

There was something strange on its surface…
as if someone had drawn a face with their fingers.

But the face was incomplete —
one eye was missing.
One smile was half.

“This face… it isn’t his,”
Naira whispered to herself,
“Maybe… it’s waiting for someone.”

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🔮 The New Mark on the “Map of Silence”

That night, on the Map of Silence, a new line appeared.

Someone — without speaking, without leaving a name — had drawn just a single scar.

It was the kind of scar that remains
when a hand lets go… and something stays behind on the palm.

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🎧 The Mysterious Recording

From the old radio kept in the Café, a voice suddenly echoed:

“I’ve come back.
But this time, not to see you — to remember you.”

Naira didn’t flinch.

She already knew —
some voices don’t return, they just change their paths.

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💙 A Last Keepsake

On the fourth chair of the Café that day, a blue handkerchief was found.

It had a faint trace of perfume —
as if someone hadn’t said goodbye,
just paused for a while.

Naira picked it up —
and added a new question to “Those Whose Tongues Are Silent”:

“If you had gone away… would your fragrance have stayed?”

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Tagline:
Some people don’t appear in mirrors — because they’re not behind us, they’re standing inside us.

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On one wall of Bayaan Café hangs a mirror —
small, a little worn at the edges,
but the reflection in it
often looks clearer than reality.

That evening, Naira was alone.
A light blue dupatta was slipping off her chair,
and in front of her sat a cup of tea — cold,
like someone had gotten used to waiting.

She looked at the wall —
and the mirror seemed to breathe.

“You come every day,”
the mirror said for the first time —
its voice silky, like an old song hiding in dust.

Naira didn’t flinch.
In Bayaan Café, strange things often felt familiar.

“Do you want to say something?”
the mirror asked.

Naira smiled, very softly.

“I do speak… by writing.
But sometimes, it feels like no one listens.”

The mirror stayed silent.
Then, on its surface, an old face appeared —
the old man who once recited couplets on Bayaan’s radio,
the one who used to say,
"More than knowledge, what matters is the decency of expression."

“Your voice still echoes here,”
the mirror said,
“on this wall, in this silent tea,
and in the tapes of that recorder.”

Naira quietly asked —

“How many things have you heard?”

Something rippled across the mirror’s surface.

“So many…
that if I begin to speak,
every wall will start to write 

 

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Bayaan Café Story: The Evening When the Mirror Spoke | Afsana Wahid

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“That Evening at Bayaan — When the Mirror Spoke”

That day was utterly ordinary.

No new customers, no unfamiliar footsteps.

Naira was sitting by the window — with a black coffee and a white sheet of paper.
Beside her lay the same book — the one Zareen had given her.

Suddenly, the wind changed.

The door of Bayaan Café opened — but no one came in.
Someone stood outside — a boy, perhaps nineteen or twenty.

He held nothing in his hands, but his eyes carried fatigue —
as if several nights of sleep were trapped inside the cover of a book.

“Do you still have… that mirror?”
he asked.

Naira looked at him for a few seconds.

“Yes… it’s still there — behind the books.”

The boy quietly stepped inside.
He walked toward the shelf.
He didn’t look at himself in the mirror —
he looked at the shadow standing behind him.

“That’s not my mother… but every time I dream — it’s her face I see.”

Naira stood beside him.

“Does your dream ever say anything?”

“No,” he said.
“It just… waits. Every time.”

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📖 “The Book That Couldn’t Be Closed”

The boy placed a book on the Café’s table.

Old, untitled.

Naira opened it.

On every page, there was a name — and beneath it, a question.

“When was the last time you smiled?”
“Was it a goodbye, or just fear?”
“Has anyone ever listened to you — without you speaking?”

“This book isn’t mine,” he said.
“But every question feels meant for me.”

Naira asked him, “Do you want to answer them?”

“No,” he replied.
“I’m just looking for the question —
for which I already am the answer.”

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The evening began to fade.

Naira once again brought out the broken bell —
the one someone had left outside the Café years ago.

The boy looked at it — and paused.

“This… what did it sound like?”

Naira softly replied,

“Like someone had finally been heard — without calling out.”

The boy quietly placed the bell to his ear.
No sound came —
but his eyes began to glisten.

“It was this bell’s sound with which I called my grandmother for the last time,”
he said.
“After that… nothing ever became a sound again. Everything just… turned into lines.”

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Tagline: Some answers don’t return in words — they dissolve into silence and come back quietly.

Glimpse:
In this episode, Naira tells the story of a boy who kept running from questions…
until he found the mirror — where his true face stood behind him.

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“Bayaan’s New Wall — The Mirror and the Knocks”

Now, Bayaan Café has a new wall —
where anyone can write a name and a question beneath it.

No one answers them.

But every Saturday, the wall slowly changes its place —
sometimes leaning inward,
sometimes trembling in the outer air.

People say,
“If your name and question are the right ones —
the mirror smiles at you, just once.”

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🩶 “Bayaan’s Return — When a Voice Echoed in the Air”

The white doll kept in the corner of Bayaan Café — was still there.

There wasn’t even a speck of dust —
as if someone came quietly every day to clean it.

Naira often sat in that very place —
where that girl once sat on the floor, drawing only lines.

Naqsh-e-Khamoshi was now full of those lines.
Every line was a name…
a sigh…
a doorway.

And then — one afternoon… when the sunlight was soft, like a candle…

She returned.

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☁️ “The Girl Who Forgot Her Own Silence”

She didn’t look the same anymore.

Her hair wasn’t loose now —
they were tied up neatly, like a schoolgirl who’d arrived late to class.

There was no doll in her hands anymore.

Instead… she held an old book — its cover looked like it was made of eagle feathers.

She quietly sat before Naqsh-e-Khamoshi.

For several minutes, she just watched…

Then her fingers began to move —
but this time, instead of lines, words began to form.

Slowly… softly.

“Do you know… why I came back?”
she asked Naira.

Naira smiled — it was the first time that girl had spoken.

“Why?” Naira asked.

“Because… this time, I want someone to listen to me.”

---

✍️

Now the girl sits at every table in the Café —
she watches every face, reads every silence.

And she writes everything…

But this time, not for herself — for someone else.

She completes the stories —
that were once left unfinished…

Of a mother whose son stopped calling her…

Of a friend who was always afraid of goodbyes…

Or of that girl who still fears the alleys of her childhood…

She has made a new corner —
behind the Café, near the window.

Where only she sits.

And in front of her hangs a small signboard:

“Say it — if you cannot speak it.
I will write your story… in the same air where you once left only your breaths.”

---

🎙️ Podcast Episode Title: “The Return of the Listener”

Tagline: Some people, when they return, don’t bring back their own heart — but someone else’s.

Glimpse:
In this episode, Naira tells the story of that girl’s return —
the one who once drew lines in the air,
and now has become the truest storyteller of Bayaan.

---

🌾 Bayaan Café Now:

Now a new notebook lies in Bayaan Café —
titled:

“Those Whose Tongues Are Silent.”

It has no author.
Only the stories of those faces —
who once came to the Café, sat quietly… and then left.

That girl… now adds new tales every Saturday.
Sometimes from her silences,
sometimes from your eyes.

---

Hello beautiful readers,

I’m Afsana Wahid, the writer of this story. 🌸

No matter which country or corner of the world you’re reading from —

I’d truly love to hear your thoughts.

Please send me a message or leave a comment and tell me how you felt about this story.

Your words mean the world to me! ✨

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The Morning When a Voice Didn’t Return – Bayaan Café Story

 Writer Afsana Wahid 

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"That Morning at Bayaan — When One Voice Never Returned"

Morning light was seeping softly through the window of Bayaan Café.
The neem leaves were wet, as if someone had listened to them all night — without ever looking their way.

Nayra had come early that day.

She had received a letter — someone had left it at the Café’s doorstep late in the night.
On a plain sheet of paper, a single line was written:

“I never promised to return… but I did try.”

Along with it was a small bell — just like the one that used to hang on Bayaan’s old wall.
But this bell was broken.

Nayra stared at it for a long time.
Then she sat by the empty wall and quietly placed the bell inside her bag.

---

“A Letter to the One Who Knocked but Didn’t Enter”

That night, just before closing the Café, Nayra wrote a letter for the first time for Stories That Weren’t Written.
It wasn’t addressed to anyone.
It was just a question:

“Is every return a promise?
Or is it sometimes an apology — that stops midway?”

She placed that letter inside the same old cupboard —
the one that still held her grandmother’s last teacup.
That cup no longer gathered dust — only a dried rose rested inside.

---

“Bayaan’s Next Legacy — When Zareen Fell Silent”

One evening, Zareen suddenly called Nayra to his side.

He had nothing particular to say.

He simply handed her a book — Zareen’s own diary.

“These are the stories I heard…
but never told anyone.
Now they are yours.
And Bayaan now needs a new listener.”

Nayra didn’t open that book at that moment.

She only asked softly:

“Will you never come back to the Café again?”

Zareen smiled. And said:

“Now I’ll go where stories speak for themselves…
and humans only come to listen.”

---

“The Room with the Locked Recorder”

There was a room in Bayaan —
where the first podcast had once been recorded.

Now that room was locked.

But one night, amidst the sound of rain,
when Nayra walked past it,
something faint began to play inside.

She opened the door — and saw…

The recorder was playing on its own.

An old voice was echoing within it:

“If my voice ever returns — tell it,
before I left, I kissed the wind by the window…”

Nayra didn’t delete that recording.

Instead, she made a new episode —
“The Voice That Stayed Without a Face.”

---

“Bayaan Now Belongs to Those Who Whisper”

Now there’s no new board on the Café window —
only a poem:

“Those who could not scream —
sang through Bayaan.
Those who could not return —
chose to stay within Bayaan.”

Every Saturday, a girl comes there —
her eyes are just like Anaya’s.

She sits silently — never says a word.

But Nayra knows — there’s a letter in her pocket…
one she might read aloud someday.

---

🎙️ Title: The Bell and the Breath
Tagline: “Some silences never end — they simply turn into breaths that stay.”

Glimpse:
In this episode, Nayra narrates the story of her last guest —
a middle-aged man who never shared his name,
but in every photograph he showed, there was always a single door.

Once he had said:

“Bayaan is the place where stories speak to me —
and for the first time, I listen to myself.”

---

“Bayaan’s Future — That Became Everyone’s Past”

Now people don’t take anything away from Bayaan.

They leave something there —
a broken watch,
an unfinished song,
an old ring…

And when they leave,
they feel a little lighter.

Because Bayaan is no longer just a café —

It’s a door that opens only for those
who have lost themselves… and wish to be found.

---

🌫️ “That Afternoon at Bayaan — When a Shadow Came with the Sunlight”

That day, no one was ordering tea.
The sunlight through the window was forming a face on the floor —
as if someone invisible was sitting there.

Zareen noticed it first —
the Café’s air felt heavier,
as though someone had arrived carrying many unfinished sentences.

Then the door opened.

A girl entered — very ordinary.
Not talkative, not the kind to meet anyone’s gaze.
In her hands, she held only a white doll.
The doll’s eyes were stitched shut.

“Do you have some paper?” — she asked.
Her voice carried nothing… and yet, carried everything.

---

“A Story Written Without a Pen”

The girl sat down on the floor —
chose no table, took no chair.

She placed the doll in front of her.

And then…

she began to draw lines on the paper —
straight, curved, tangled lines.
Not a single word.

Nayra came closer.

“Do you want to say something?” — she asked softly.

The girl nodded — yes.

Nayra asked again — “Can’t you write?”

This time, the girl lowered her head.
Then she pointed to the doll.

“This is my mother.
And I’m the thing she never finished listening to…”

---

“The Mirror Behind the Bookshelf”

That day, for the first time, Nayra looked behind the old bookshelf in the Café.

There was a small mirror there — very old.

Its glass was cracked, covered with dust.
But in that mirror, the girl’s reflection appeared whole — without distortion.

“Was this mirror always here?” — Nayra asked Zareen.

Zareen replied:

“This mirror doesn’t belong to Bayaan…
it belongs to those who recognize themselves only in shadows.”

After that day, Nayra placed a chair before that mirror —
no name written on it.

But whoever sat there —
spoke to themselves, at least once.

---

The girl kept coming for many afternoons after that.

Each time with a new line, a new page, a new pattern.

Sometimes those pages burned — without fire.
Sometimes they flew away — without wind.

And then one day…

she didn’t come.

The doll was left behind in the Café.

A thread was tied behind its ear.

Nayra slowly untied it —
inside it was a small piece of paper:

“I still listen — if you still wish to speak…”

---

🎙️ Podcast Episode: “The Girl Who Wrote in Air”
Tagline: “Some people don’t write on paper — they leave threads in the air.”

Glimpse:
In this episode, Nayra tells the story of that girl —
who never spoke a single word,
yet left behind the most stories Bayaan Café had ever known.

---

🌾 “The Corner of Bayaan — Where the Lines Are Kept”

Now there’s a new corner in the Café:
“Naksh-e-Khamoshi” — The Design of Silence.

Here, only lines are kept.
No names, no language.

Only everything that was never said —
but was deeply felt.

---

And finally, just this:

If you ever visit Bayaan Café,
and find yourself with nothing to say —

then draw a single line.

Perhaps someone will read it and understand —
what you wanted to say… when you were silent.

---

Hello beautiful readers,

I’m Afsana Wahid, the writer of this story. 🌸

No matter which country or corner of the world you’re reading from —

I’d truly love to hear your thoughts.

Please send me a message or leave a comment and tell me how you felt about this story.

Your words mean the world to me! ✨

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The Silent Wall of Bayaan — When a Voice Returned | Afsana Wahid

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"The Silent Wall of Bayaan — When a Voice Returned"

One evening, the lights of Bayaan Café were dimmed just a little.

Nayra had stayed back late that day — the recorder was beside her, but it wasn’t turned on.
She was simply sitting there… facing the “Wall of Emptiness.”

Outside, a neem leaf peeked through the window,
and inside — the silence seemed ready to speak.

Just then, the doorbell chimed.

Zareen looked up — an older man walked in.
A white beard, a slow, stooping walk,
but eyes filled with that same old curiosity —
as if searching for the final page of a forgotten book.

He stepped in quietly and asked Zareen:

“Do people still come here… to tell stories?”

Zareen smiled gently and replied:

“No, not stories — here, we listen to the people who were never heard.”

The man’s eyes shimmered with tears.

He said softly:

“I never wanted to come back… but my daughter said I’m still unfinished.”

Nayra looked at him, startled.
She stepped closer and asked quietly:

“May I know… who you are?”

He didn’t answer.
He only took out a folded, faded page from his pocket —
old, wrinkled, and soft at the edges.
On it, a single name was written: Anaya.

Nayra’s breath caught in her throat.

“You… knew my grandmother?”

The man said nothing.

Zareen, understanding the weight of the moment,
ordered tea for him — in the same cup Anaya once drank from.

He sat down — by the window.

And for the first time, he spoke:

“I’m the one who once taught Anaya how to write…
but I never wrote anything myself.”

Nayra looked at him closely now.
In her grandmother’s stories, there was once a “silent boy” —
a nameless shadow who never spoke but was always there.

It was him.
He had come back.

---

“That Evening at Bayaan — When Unfinished Stories Began to Complete Themselves”

That night, for the first time, something was placed before the Wall of Emptiness.

An old camera.

The man said quietly:

“Inside it are many pictures —
ones no one ever saw.
Because back then, I couldn’t face myself.”

Nayra never used that camera for her podcast.
She wanted it to stay in Bayaan —
as a witness.

Bayaan was slowly turning into a museum of voices —
the kind that never screamed,
but whispered softly:

“I exist too…”

---

“Nayra’s Book — The One That Never Got Published, Yet Was Most Read”

A year later, a new corner appeared inside Bayaan —

“Stories That Weren’t Written.”

Here, they collected things —
letters, scribbles, lines written on tissue papers,
and tear marks left on book margins.

Nayra had started writing a book,
but not for publication.

Its title was:

“Unsent Letters to the Ones Who Stayed.”

Every page of that book was born
from some forgotten corner of Bayaan.

And the last page —
was dedicated to Anaya.

---

“Bayaan’s Final Story — The One That Might Never End”

The Café had now become a pilgrimage.
People came from faraway places —
some to look at its walls,
some to leave behind their silence.

Zareen was now old.
One evening, he said to Nayra:

“Bayaan needs someone like you now —
someone who can listen without getting tired,
and feel without being afraid.”

Nayra listened quietly.
Then she touched her grandmother’s old teacup one last time
and whispered to herself:

“I’m no longer afraid to write —
because now I write for someone else.”

---

“Bayaan Is No Longer a Place — It’s a Voice That Brings You Back to Yourself”

They say Bayaan Café still exists.

But there’s no signboard anymore —
only a small bell by the door.

And that bell rings only for those
who truly wish to listen.

If someone asks,

“What happens inside Bayaan?”

The only answer is:

“You happen —
in ways you never have before.”

---

🎙️ Podcast Title: Lost Letters & Leftover Words
By Nayra
A podcast from the heart of Bayaan Café — where stories are not told, but rediscovered.

---

Tagline: Some windows open for air, some for memories.

Glimpse:
Nayra sits by the window where her grandmother once forgave herself.
In this episode, she speaks of the “Wall of Emptiness,”
and for the first time gives voice to the silences within her — without naming them.

---

Tagline: Sometimes the most important things are the ones left unsaid.

Glimpse:
A girl leaves a letter in the Café — written for her mother.
As Nayra reads it aloud, her voice trembles,
because every word breathes the ache of an unfinished bond between mother and daughter.

---

Episode: “He Used to Sit at Table 4”

Tagline: To become someone’s habit, and then fade from it — that was love, perhaps.
Glimpse:
An old man who always sat at Table 4 every Tuesday…
doesn’t come one day.
He leaves behind a paper:

“When you stirred your tears into my tea — that’s when it tasted sweetest.”

---

Tagline: At Bayaan, voices don’t echo — they flow, like a quiet river.

Glimpse:
In this episode, Nayra shares the untold —
from Helena’s perfume bottle to the silence of an old toaster —
each story opens like the voice of a familiar diary.

---

Tagline: Some pages remain silent until someone feels them.

Glimpse:
One day, a forgotten diary is found in the Café —
a page locked like a secret.
Nayra doesn’t read it aloud; she only feels it.
And in doing so, she finds a missing piece of her grandmother’s unfinished story.

---

Tagline: In Bayaan, names don’t matter — only feelings do.

Glimpse:
A poet comes to the Café — he speaks nothing, just listens.
Yet every listener feels as if he’s spoken the words of their heart.
Nayra realizes that some poems are written only inside souls.

---

Tagline: Here, no story is cut short — and no silence is broken.

Glimpse:
Nayra plays a few clips from Bayaan’s old mic recordings —
a mother’s regret, a son’s waiting,
and the apology of a broken promise.
Each voice feels like a vow written in silence.

---

Episode: “The Girl Who Came to Finish a Story”

Tagline: Some stories never end — someone comes back to finish them.
Glimpse:
The journey of Anaya’s granddaughter — in her own voice.
Nayra meets her, and together they write a poem —
where the grandmother’s soul, the granddaughter’s courage,
and Bayaan’s silence flow together as one.

---

Episode: “The Wall of Absences” (Special Live Episode)

Tagline: Even those who never came to the Café — are felt here.
Glimpse:
Recorded live with an audience,
this episode is an audio tribute to the Wall of Emptiness —
for all those who were lost, silenced,
or never found their way back to themselves.

---

Tagline: Sometimes returning is all it takes — Bayaan is still there,

on the tea table, in unfinished words.
Glimpse:
Nayra reads one final page —
a letter she once wrote to herself.
Then she turns off the mic in silence.

But the Café’s window…
still remains open.

---

Hello beautiful readers,

I’m Afsana Wahid, the writer of this story. 🌸

No matter which country or corner of the world you’re reading from —

I’d truly love to hear your thoughts.

Please send me a message or leave a comment and tell me how you felt about this story.

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Bayaan Café: When Stories Listen Back — A Poetic Tale of Love, Letters & Healing Across Generations

---

17. “That Silent Night at Bayaan Café — When Someone Left, and Someone Stayed”

The night had grown deep.
Through the window of Bayaan Café, the neem leaves were now just faint shadows.
Inside, two cups still sat unfinished —
but only one chair was now occupied.

Anaya had left.
Perhaps after keeping a promise — or leaving one behind.

The boy sat alone now, but not as before.
In front of him lay his diary — and several pages had already been filled.
On every page, there was a small word, a broken memory,
or an unfinished thought that only he could understand.

He looked once toward the poem on the wall —
the one Baba-Bayaan had written for them.

“Sometimes, two strangers share just a single page —
and become an entire book.”

A faint smile touched his lips.

Then he stood up,
emptied his cup of coffee,

and for the first time — he said to Hashir:

“Can I… write the next poem?”

---

18. “The Boy Who, For the First Time, Left His Words for Someone”

Baba-Bayaan nodded.

“At Bayaan, those who listen one day begin to write.”

The boy picked up a pen,
walked to the wall —
where Helena’s perfume, the anonymous woman’s letter,
and Baba’s old notebook still hung.

He quietly pasted his own page there.

He didn’t write a name.
Only this line:

“I am no longer afraid — because I no longer write just for myself.”

---

19. “Bayaan Was No Longer a Café — It Had Become a Promise”

The next day, the café was a little fuller.
Amid the city’s rush, a few new faces had appeared —
some looking for their stories,
some just wanting to listen to someone else’s.

The boy now worked at Bayaan.

Like Hashir once did, he now asked:

“Do people still write their words here?”

And whenever someone said “Yes,”
a shadow of Anaya returned in his eyes.

Sometimes, he read that poem on the wall —
the one he had written himself —
and recognized himself again.

---

20. “Another Evening at Bayaan — When Someone Forgave Themselves”

That same evening, another stranger walked into the café.

Long hair, a blue dupatta, and eyes that held a depth beyond words.

She said:

“I haven’t brought a story… only an apology.”

Baba-Bayaan smiled.

“Apologies aren’t written at Bayaan — they are felt.”

The girl sat quietly in a corner,
ordered a cup of coffee,
and gently took out a piece of paper.

On it, she wrote only one line:

“I didn’t understand you when you needed it the most.”

She pinned the paper on the wall —
right beside the same window
where once that boy used to sit and watch.

---

21. “The Café Was No Longer Just a Home for Stories — It Had Become a Refuge”

Now, everything at Bayaan had a story:

The old toaster — that always burned a little,
but somehow made something good out of it.

The mirror — in which no one could see themselves clearly,
but everyone recognized their own confusion.

The table — where someone had once said:

“I don’t know who I am — but today, for the first time, I’ve accepted that I am.”

Bayaan had become a sanctuary —
for those who were lost,
and those still on their way.

---

22. “The Last Wall of Bayaan — With No Names, Only Hope”

Years later, the café’s walls were filled with hundreds of words.

Some of joy, some of regret,
some promises, some goodbyes…

Baba-Bayaan now just sat and listened.

Hashir had become the manager.
The boy — a writer.

And Anaya?

They say someone once found her book at a train station,
and inside it was written:

“If you ever go to Bayaan Café —
touch the place where my tea once was.”

A final poem was pinned on the wall:

“Not every story ends where it stops —
sometimes, the end is where someone dares to begin again.”

---

Bayaan still stands there —

The same window opens in the same direction.
The neem still drops its leaves.

And someone still comes —
either to forget themselves,
or to finally listen.

At Bayaan, no one asks for names.
Only stories are heard.

And sometimes —
someone even returns.

---

“Bayaan: The Next Generation — When Stories Began to Breathe Again”

---

23. “The Girl Who Lived Inside Her Grandmother’s Letters”

In a new city, a new girl arrived — her name was Nayra.

Her voice was soft,
her eyes carried the shade of books,
and her walk had the rhythm of an old forgotten song.

She was a journalist —
but often got lost while searching for other people’s stories.

One day, she found a letter in her grandmother’s old chest.

The paper was pale brown, its edges slightly burnt.

It read:

“If you ever wish to meet yourself — go to Bayaan Café.
The walls there speak…
and they place answers before your questions.”

Nayra was startled.
Bayaan Café?

The name wasn’t unfamiliar.
Her grandmother had once whispered —
“That’s where I forgave life over a cup of tea…”

She decided — she had to go to Bayaan.

---

24. “Bayaan Was No Longer a Podcast — It Had Become a Legacy”

When Nayra arrived,
the café looked a little different.

Outside hung a new board:

“Bayaan Café & Listening Library — Welcome to Silent Stories.”

The neem tree was still there at the door,
but on the bench now sat a young man — Zareen.

Zareen, whose mother had once written at Bayaan herself.
Who had learned not storytelling, but the art of listening from Baba-Bayaan.

He was now the caretaker of Bayaan —
but he never wrote stories.

He only listened.

---

25. “Nayra and the Recorder — Filled Not With Voices, But With Silences”

Nayra stepped inside.
Around her neck hung a microphone —
she wanted to create a podcast called “Lost Letters & Leftover Words.”

She asked Zareen:

“Would you allow me to record the stories here?”

Zareen smiled.

“Stories aren’t given here —
people are simply allowed to listen to themselves.”

Nayra didn’t quite understand.
But she sat near the same window —
where once, a woman had forgiven herself,
where once, a boy had written:

“I don’t know who I am —
but today, for the first time, I’ve accepted that I am.”

And there, in silence,
Nayra recorded her first episode.

---

26. “Bayaan Now Flowed in Audio — But Its Roots Still Carried the Same Fragrance”

Every evening, someone or another came to the café —
some with diaries,
some wearing T-shirts printed with poems,
some with just a cup of coffee — sitting quietly.

Nayra now recorded every sound.

QR codes were now pinned on the walls —
scanning them played the voices of old letters.

Helena’s perfume bottle was still there,
Baba-Bayaan’s notebook too,
and the corner of that anonymous woman’s letter.

But now, something new had been added:

“Bayaan Mic — where every story is heard, without interruption, without judgment.”

---

27. “The Day When Anaya’s Granddaughter Returned”

One afternoon, a 16-year-old girl came into the café —
with eyes that had already seen too much.

She simply said:

“I’m Anaya’s granddaughter… and I heard my grandmother’s story lives here.”

Zareen led her to the wall.

Anaya’s words were still there:

“If you ever go to Bayaan Café — touch the place where my tea once was.”

The girl smiled,
ordered a cup of tea,
took out a blank sheet of paper —

and wrote:

“I’ve come to finish my grandmother’s unfinished story.”

---

28. “Bayaan Was No Longer a Café — It Had Become a Movement”

The nights at Bayaan Café were still slow.

But now, stories didn’t live only on paper —
they flowed through radio waves, podcasts, Instagram reels,
and poetry gatherings.

Bayaan had become a movement —
for those who still wanted to feel.

Every week, a new “Silent Story” was added to the wall.
Every month, “Nameless Poems” were recited.

And every year —
there came one special night
when the café lights were dimmed,
and only the walls were allowed to speak.

---

29. “The Last Wall of Bayaan — Still Open”

In one corner of the café, there was a new wall —
named:

“Diwaar-e-Khaali” — The Empty Wall.

No papers were ever pinned there.
It was left blank —
for all those who never came,

for those whose stories were still missing.

Nayra called it “The Wall of Absences” in her podcast.

And at the end of every episode, she said only this:

“Bayaan is still waiting —
for those
who have yet to meet themselves.”

---

Hello beautiful readers,

I’m Afsana Wahid, the writer of this story. 🌸

No matter which country or corner of the world you’re reading from —

I’d truly love to hear your thoughts.

Please send me a message or leave a comment and tell me how you felt about this story.

Your words mean the world to me! ✨