December 2025: Fiction
In placing ourselves — humans — front and centre of everything, we’ve turned into Frankensteins condemned to self-destruct. The scales of justice haven’t merely tipped off balance; they’re on the edge, about to crumble under the unbearable weight of obese human greed.
Editorial : December 2025
The Conundrum of India’s Domestic Workers by Parth Singh The Invisible backbone of Urban Life Before sunrise, millions of women across India wake up to cook, clean, fetch water, and send their children to school—working on their household chores with little rest. Then, they leave home to go to middle-class apartments, where they do the…
In Memory of Zubeen Garg
All The Things Music Can Make Happen by Kaushik Hazarika and Anindita Kar At Guwahati’s Sarusajai Stadium, where Zubeen Garg’s body lay in state for two days, we were among lakhs of grieving admirers standing in serpentine queues for hours for a final glimpse of their beloved icon. Poor arrangements, waterlogged grounds, broken railings, rain…
Fiction and Fiction in Translation: July 2025
Travelling Light : Ranu Uniyal Staring at the carpeted floor, papered walls and empty ceiling of an unknown house, a lump dislodges itself at the pitch of my throat and eyes flash with an insipid glare. Brown and pink of the room mixes staunchly with the deep grey of my heart and ripples of intrepid…
Fiction and Non-Fiction: March’ 2025
Editorial: Suranjana Choudhury Is it the beginning or the end of a road that we pursue? Like complex algebraic equations, roads – the real and the imagined, oftentimes confuse us. In our ways, we try to gather meanings from the many roads we tread. In the long run, whatever we have gathered makes up our…
August’24 Issue: Short Stories and Fiction
Editorial by Bhaswati Ghosh On those nights when sleep eludes me, which, unfortunately aren’t all that few, I turn to Spotify’s Calm station. As if they were a mother’s hand stroking my head, soft, kindhearted notes glide me into sleep. Our world is insomniac now too, one might argue. Sleep has long been eluding children…
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…
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…
Short Fiction October Issue, 2022
PERSONAL TRANSIT Kristine Harley It was a migraine this time, stretching the halls into shimmering periscopes, long dark tunnels at the end of which twinkled fractured destinations—the table, the conference room, an office door. It was a migraine that she had this time, not a headache, but the big one: a shifting kaleidoscope dizziness that…
Short Fiction: Spring Issue 2022.
Kafka’s Kashmir by Takbeer Salati Fasola’s Freedom by Shruti Sareen Kailash Pattanaik’s Flash Fiction translated by Khushi Pattanayak Kafka’s Kashmir By Takbeer Salati We lay there under open skies on a boat, of our dreams uncoated with heartbreaks. He had a lot of layered assignments and yet he lay with me amidst the lotuses, reciting…
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