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FICTION

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Wyrd Words: Personal Reflections On The Art Of Horror (Part IV)β€” Grandfather Hu

BODY HORROR (UNCOMFORTABLE IN OUR OWN SKINS) Image Used for Representation  Translation comes naturally to us. You’re doing it right now. No, I’m not talking about that wondrous act of reading,…...
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The Downtownβ€” Prasanta Kr. Das

TRANSLATED FROM THE ASSAMESE BY HARSITA HIYA Image Used for Representation  In the beginning God created the heavens and then the earth and Downtown Genesis 1:1 It was as tall as a high-rise…...
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In the Meadow & Other Flash Fiction Piecesβ€” Rongili Biswas

FLASH FICTION BY RONGILI BISWASΒ  Image Used for Representation  In the Meadow   The boy: In the meadow. Cannot take his eyes off the crow. Someone told him the crow could…...
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Two Flash Fiction Piecesβ€” Rongili Biswas

FLASH FICTION BY RONGILI BISWAS   Image Used for Representation IN PRAISE OF AN ORNATE VASE   He had my cousin’s name but looked very different. To be honest, I no…...

Two Facesβ€” Sarah Thomas

TRANSLATED FROM THE MALAYALAM BY K. M. AJIR KUTTY Labourers engaged by Ganesan Chettiyar are sweeping and sprucing up the β€˜Summer Cottage’ which had been lying locked until then. Kuppamma, who was feeding buffaloes with straw…...
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The Second Taj Mahalβ€” Nasera Sharma

TRANSLATED FROM THE HINDI BY AYUSHEE ARORA Image Used for Representation  Naina, sitting inside the airplane, was trembling nervously, and felt as disappointed and hopeless as a soaring bird that had suddenly been…...
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Forgetting is Not Really a Decisionβ€” Jaishree Roy

TRANSLATED FROM THE HINDI BY RITUPARNA MUKHERJEE   Anay had left, it was the first thing that struck Raka’s mind as she opened her eyes in the morning. Her hands and feet turned cold. She disregarded…...
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All Alone at this Stationβ€” Shihabuddin Poythumkadavu

TRANSLATED FROM THE MALAYALAM BY K.M. AJIR KUTTY Image Used For Representation   There was a railway station somewhere. The station existed as though it was on an alien planet, emitting the desolateness…...

Sheepβ€” Dr. Indira Dangi

TRANSLATED FROM THE HINDI BY RITUPARNA MUKHERJEE     Anita leaves her sheep to graze on reaching the Balmi Hill and sits next to a large rock amidst the mound of rocks. There was a hail…...