fiction

Fiction, Literature

Other Lives

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“Given a choice, she would go out and comb the manic streets of Delhi for terrorists or car jackers, instead of being cooped up in a dingy room with me.” Story of the Week (October 25), by Vineetha Mokkil.

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Fiction, Literature

Kandahar

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“He would sit beside it and watch the colours of the sky transform it as if the sun bent around the horizon just to take a peek at the angles and crevices of its metallic beauty.” Story of the Week (October 18), by Anam Abbas.

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Magazine

The Folded Earth

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Every time prices rose, she said, “Does Gormint care if we live or die?” Government was a person who lived far away and grew fat while her cheeks hollowed with too much work and too little food.

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Magazine

Another Country

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She briefly feared the outer door wouldn’t let her leave, but she found the button to press and slipped into the street. It was raining, and cold. She walked slowly home, reassured by the quotidian misery of the Monoprix…

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Magazine

Immanuel Kant in Shillong

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This is the kind of town where you could be sitting in a restaurant, concentrating on your noodle soup, and suddenly notice across the room a man with the face of Harrison Ford, calmly eating lunch with his ordinary wife…

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Magazine

The Twins

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“Hey kickle kicklee,” said Anand, tickling its bloated stomach. “Hey kicklee paya.”

“Fuck off,” it said, trying to kick Anand in the chin.

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Fiction, Literature

Elias: 1949-1971

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“He loathed the greater exposure it gave him to the non-Orthodox world. Not because he loathed the world he saw, but because he loathed that this world saw him.” Story of the Week (October 11), by Cathy Rosoff.

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