Minoli Salgado is a writer and academic who teaches English Literature at the University of Sussex, England. She represented Sri Lanka at Poetry Parnassus in 2012, and won the inaugural SI Leeds Literary Prize for her forthcoming novel, ‘A Little Dust on the Eyes’.
‘The Breach’ originally appeared in ‘Bridges: A Global Anthology of Short Stories’, ed. Maurice A.Lee (Temenos, 2012), and is republished here with permission from the author.
“There are social expectations that reinforce the notion that women should not speak out at times when men might… In this sense, silence is gendered.” Isra Ansari interviews Minoli Salgado, The Missing Slate’s Author of the Month.
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“Above and behind lay the danger. The sky sawn open by planes dropping huge exploding eggs, bullets lashed into screams…” Story of the Week (December 20), by Minoli Salgado
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