Aarsh Malik
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Poet, Storyteller, and Healer.
Sharing self-help insights, fiction, and verse on Vocal.
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We Don’t Eat for Nutrition. We Eat for Relief.
There is a certain hour at night when kitchens light up again. The day is technically over. The work is done or abandoned. The phone is finally quiet. And yet refrigerators open, cupboards slide out, and hands reach for food without much thought about taste or nutrition. It happens almost automatically, as if the body is finishing a sentence the day never completed.
By Aarsh Malik13 days ago in Humans
Before the Suitcases: The Melanie McGuire Story
No one expects evil to arrive wearing scrubs and carrying a lunch bag. Melanie McGuire looked correct. That was the first deception, and it wasn’t even intentional. A fertility nurse. A mother. A woman living in New Jersey suburbia where lawns are trimmed and lives are assumed to be manageable. She fit so cleanly into the picture of normal life that no one thought to question the frame.
By Aarsh Malik14 days ago in Criminal
This Show Makes You Suspicious on Purpose
At first, it feels harmless. You sit down to watch His & Hers the way you sit down to watch any thriller. Lights dimmed. Phone face-down. A body on screen. A mystery to solve. Two people telling the same story in different voices. You tell yourself this is entertainment. Suspense. Craft.
By Aarsh Malik18 days ago in Psyche
The Food Pyramid Has Been Flipped. Here’s What the New One Really Means.
For decades, we were taught to eat from the bottom up. Grains formed the foundation. Bread, rice, cereal. Protein and fats hovered higher, almost suspiciously. Sugar sat at the top like a guilty secret we all pretended not to touch.
By Aarsh Malik22 days ago in Feast
Renée Hartevelt Was Eaten Alive After Death. Content Warning.
Renée Hartevelt was twenty-five years old when she walked into an apartment in Paris and never walked out. She was a Dutch exchange student at the Sorbonne, studying literature, surrounded by language and ideas meant to last longer than flesh ever could. Friends described her as warm, intelligent, unguarded. She believed people when they spoke to her kindly. That belief is what killed her.
By Aarsh Malik26 days ago in Criminal
Venezuela: Beyond Oil, Into the Future of Global Power
Venezuela is often reduced to headlines: oil, sanctions, Maduro, and economic collapse. But the country’s true significance stretches far beyond its black gold. Beneath the surface lies a mineral-rich landscape, part of South America’s strategic corridor of lithium, nickel, cobalt, copper, and other rare earth elements. These are the raw materials of the future .. powering electric vehicles, renewable energy, advanced electronics, and defense technologies. In a world gradually moving past oil dependence, these minerals are becoming the new currency of power, and Venezuela sits at the edge of that race.
By Aarsh Malik28 days ago in Futurism
Why Trump Keeps Looking North: Greenland, Power, and the New Geography of Influence
When Ice Becomes Strategy At first glance, Greenland looks like silence. A vast white landmass, sparsely populated, frozen, distant. Yet in global politics, silence often hides the loudest signals. When Donald Trump repeatedly spoke about Greenland .. even floating the idea of acquiring it .. many laughed. But geopolitics is rarely about jokes. It is about position, timing, and fear of being late.
By Aarsh Malik28 days ago in Education
The Story Needed a Villain. So It Chose Me.
I don’t remember the first time someone looked at me like I was dangerous. That’s the problem with stories. They don’t start where we think they do. They start quietly, invisibly, when a thought forms in someone else’s mind and finds a place to stay.
By Aarsh Malik30 days ago in Fiction
