Mason Carter

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I’m Mushahid Syed, better known by my pen name Mason Carter. I love writing fiction, nonfiction, and academic books, and I’ve been composing poetry since 2010. By profession, I’m a lecturer at the Department of English Language & Literature, Shah Abdul Latif University, Pakistan.

When I’m not teaching or writing, you might find me binge-watching Netflix, buried in a book, or running study circles with friends. I’ve been a bookworm since childhood, and my favorite authors include Murray Bookchin, Bertolt Brecht, Edgar Allan Poe, William Blake, John Milton, Peter Kropotkin, Gregory Maximoff, Bertell Ollman, Khalil Gibran, Arthur Schopenhauer, Jean Genet, Samuel Beckett, Arthur Adamov, and Emile Cioran—though the list is much longer than I can
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“To be intellectually humble is not to live in constant doubt. Rather, it’s to live with a mind open to correction, and a heart strong enough to prioritize truth over pride.”
Mason Carter, Critical Thinking Unchained: From Formal Logic to Dialectics of Emancipation

“Anger, surprisingly, often follows social hierarchies. Many people easily express anger toward those who are less powerful—a waiter, a child, a junior employee—but suppress it when mistreated by someone more powerful, such as a boss, police officer, or a government body.”
Mason Carter, Critical Thinking Unchained: From Formal Logic to Dialectics of Emancipation

“You were a language I learned by ear,
syllables pressed into the curve of my neck,
intonations traced along my spine.
But love, I have forgotten how to conjugate us—
the past imperfect, the future conditional,
sentences unraveling into tenses
that no longer hold.”
Mason Carter, Saltwater & Smoke: Poems of Almosts, Goodbyes, and What We Leave Behind

“Beneath the pallid gaze of waning skies,
I stood, a shadow where the darkness lies,”
Mason Carter, Gothic Poems to Love & Liberty: A Collection of Poems on Myths & Broken Hearts

“Oh, Perseus—your glory shall wither and fall,
In the shadow of serpents, you’ll hear my call.
Your victory is hollow, your name is a lie—
For I am the storm, and I shall never die.”
Mason Carter, Gothic Poems to Love & Liberty: A Collection of Poems on Myths & Broken Hearts

“The air is thick, the stone is cold,
These chains are rust, these years are old.
Darkness lingers, gnaws, decays,
A hollow tomb in endless days.”
Mason Carter, Gothic Poems to Love & Liberty: A Collection of Poems on Myths & Broken Hearts

“Back to the dark, my cursed throne,
I bear her forth, I stand alone.
Her breath is shallow, soft and dim,
Her pulse a song—a fleeting hymn.”
Mason Carter, Gothic Poems to Love & Liberty: A Collection of Poems on Myths & Broken Hearts

“Her breath, a perfume laced with midnight’s bloom,
Her skin, a canvas brushed with lunar gloom.
She lies, a mountain range of flesh and might,
And I, a pilgrim, kneel to kiss her light.
Her neck, a column where the ancients wrote,
I trace with tongue, each vein, each whispered note.”
Mason Carter, Gothic Poems to Love & Liberty: A Collection of Poems on Myths & Broken Hearts

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