Author: Parcham Magazine
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Short Stories and Flash Fiction: April Issue
Safe— Lance Minion When I describe the intersection where I turned my car off the road the first thing you’re going to do is ask where I was coming from and where I was headed when I made this decision. I understand this and yet I don’t feel it’s as important as you might. I…
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Non-Fiction & Personal Essays — April Issue
Foreword— Candice Louisa Dacquin When Khaled Hosseini, in the acclaimed novel The Kite Runner, wrote, “There are so many children in Afghanistan, but no childhood,” he was alluding to a phenomenon and truism about every war-torn country. Women and children have, as history is witness, borne the brunt of nations locked in crisis and conflict.…
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Spring Issue: Poems on Children and Childhood
Trying to still the children for a photo— Danielle Mcmahon is a simple matter of physics, a wending metaphor, a jar of fireflies, a tin-can telephone, for my shutter speed cannot match to capture the verb and reverb of such giddy atoms, a giggling symptom charged with the challenge of time-keeping— those blurred expressions, stolen…
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August Issue: Poetry Section
Letter from the Other Side of Silence — Stephanie L. Harper Dear One: A life-long dusk of onyx-black has failed to send back even faint echoes of my own refrains. I know what it is to be mocked by the wind’s bare-rhythmed hiss through night-hidden palm fronds and rolling surf, stultifying me with its droning…
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Non- Fiction: August Issue
Racial profiling in Japan: Who could speak for them? Mayumi Yamamoto One Friday morning, while browsing online news, I was searching for a material to use for discussion in my class. Due to my academic background, after retiring from my career as a researcher, I have been taking care of the students from one of…
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Ipsita Deb in conversation with Portrait Artist Subhojit Bhar
Ipsita : Subhojit, please take us through your journey. How did you first discover your passion for painting? Also, about your techniques, medium, and the colours you use. I am a self-taught portrait artist who likes to work both in traditional and digital media. For the most part of the day though, I am a…
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SNAPSHOTS: Photo Series August Issue.
Editor’s Note by Ipsita Deb “There is no story behind it. It is split like a second.” “The Butterfly”, Arun Kolatkar. Snapshots – often technically “imperfect” or amateurish photographs, poorly framed – are evanescent and ephemeral fragments of time, in their essence. Whether it’s an instantaneous sun-down, existing in a singular moment in history; or a sudden revelation…
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Voices: Call For Submissions for the August Issue.
VOICES “The world is full of paper, Write to me.”—Agha Shahid Ali. To have a chance and an opportunity to have one’s voice heard is sometimes a matter of privilege. A privilege that often, we can take for granted. What does it mean to put forward one’s voice into the world—a voice underlining a credo,…
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FICTION: THIRD ISSUE
Life Jacket by Suzette Marie Bishop B.J. liked to wear his lifejacket around the house. They had a small pond in the front yard. B.J.’s dad, a freshwater biologist, was sold on the water feature when they bought the house, but his parents worried he might fall in. Instead of taking the lifejacket on and…
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