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New Fiction by Mustafa Abubaker: ‘Past Visiting Hours’
The steps you take remind me of my adolescence, a gentle breeze, a sly grin, a pitcher of ice cold Corona in the dead of July. But we’re not going to a baseball game tonight wearing boat shoes nor my...
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An Excerpt From ‘Cowboys and East Indians’ by Nina McConigley
Nina McConigley was born in Singapore and grew up in Wyoming. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Virginia Quarterly Review, American Short Fiction, Memorious, Slice Magazine, Asian...
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‘Vetala: An Indian Vampire in London’— An Excerpt From Sabina England’s...
Urdustan is Sabina England’s first book, a collection of seven stories which was self-published in 2012 and recently re-released and available for purchase at Lulu. Sabina England is a Deaf Indian...
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An Excerpt from ‘Marriage of a Thousand Lies’ by SJ Sindu
(worak/Flickr) Techno music pumps from the black walls and jumps off the tin roof tiles. All around us, young adults swarm with desperation in their eyes, scoping the cavernous bar for someone to take...
View ArticleHighlights from AAWW’s Page Turner Festival
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‘Because': New Fiction by Mustafa Abubaker
When I was seven, the Sun rose for me, shined on the flowers I picked for you, made sure that they were pure and full of life. I watered them for you and placed them in my backpack, adorning the books...
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‘The Activist': New Fiction by Karthick RM
It was a failure. Not him. It. Your room was in its usual orderly state. You liked it that way. The possessions that you loved the most — your books — were neatly decked in a bookrack made of...
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‘Smokers ♥ Company': New Fiction by Mustafa Abubaker
The winds have picked up these nights, gusts of air sweeping away slight clouds of marijuana smoke and remnants of unspoken thoughts, dissipating into the atmosphere. Welcome to the real word, a...
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‘The Lover': New Fiction by Karthick RM
(Photo/Charles Haynes) A sunny day in Kovil Street. The first thing you notice is the dirt. Second, the abundance of people and flies. The pookaari was in a violent debate with her middle-aged...
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‘The Messenger': A Short Story by Niyantha Shekar
(Photo/Tim G. Photography) Every day as the sun rose in Neelapaakam, a small village facing the Indian Ocean, the men set sail in search of fish to send into town, a surplus allowing them to feed their...
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‘Passage to America’— New Fiction by A.T. Kapoor
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 1993. 6th grade. Mr. Baladucci’s Spelling class. A skinny Indian boy slouches in the back of the class. That’s me. Tongue out, eyebrows furrowed, meticulously erasing the...
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Read Flash Fiction Story ‘The Rains Came’
When the rains failed for the third year in a row, Bansi lost all hopes for a good crop. The loan he had taken for new seeds, to lease a second plot of land, and to dig a new tube-well again turned...
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A Prayer And A Premonition: Short Fiction by Mustafa Abubaker
(Photo/Wikimedia Commons) With every sigh emanated, the tension only grew more palpable. He hadn’t imagined waiting this long; not for love — or the promise of hot tea. and back home his boys would...
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“A Spicy Chica”— Short Fiction By Damyanti Ghosh
Buy yourself some black garbanzo beans. Soak ’em overnight. Well, eight to ten hours, at any rate. Then cook ’em till they’re soft. I don’t know, soft, like the insides of her elbow, or her nipples,...
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Book Review: The Blind Writer Offers Glimpses of Indian-American Dysfunction
As a short story writer myself, I was thrilled at the opportunity to review a short story collection, and one which focuses on the Indian American experience, no less. Sameer Pandya’s The Bind Writer...
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Read An Excerpt From Nikesh Shukla’s Meatspace
Nikesh Shukla’s new novel Meatspace, is out in the U.S. on September 15, from Harper Collins, and according to The Guardian, “Like Douglas Coupland’s Generation X, this novel captures a cultural...
View ArticleReview: Kamila Shamsie’s Finely Drawn Home Fire Resonates With Increasing...
Habits of secrecy are damaging things. Home Fire, longlisted for this year’s Man Booker Prize, is Kamila Shamsie’s much acclaimed seventh novel, and the first of hers I’ve read, though[...] The post...
View ArticleChatting With Latha Viswanathan, Author Of ‘Lingering Tide’&‘Temples’
Latha Viswanathan is the Houston-based author of the short story collection Lingering Tide (2011), and the novel Temples (2018). In my review of Lingering Tide, I said Viswanathan was fearsomely[...]...
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