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Fiction and Poetry

“Words, words, words.”

Flash Fiction

Lost and Found

Devika Goswami -
“She had everything she needed: a little bit of laundry-change that she scraped off the dining table the other night, some water, her half-eaten lunch, a comic book and a tiny slip with her address scribbled on it.”
Fiction and Poetry

Simpler Thing

Ditsa Majumder -
““But now, we are walking backwards until we collide. We are talking of women and their men, of the wall, of the weather. Of us. “Does it trouble you too?” I ask.”
B Minor

it takes two to know the truth

Himangi Parekh -
this is a retelling of the truth, of my truth which is shadowed under his, he abused me, broke my lucky tooth, how uncouth, forced me to...
Fiction and Poetry

A Set of Hands

Diya Sood -
“And with every wrong set of hands, he wished only for a dispassionate life. A life of no knots, no slutty mothers and lovelorn fathers.”
Fiction and Poetry

After Sex

Akansha Naithani -
"Love is the coaxing that knives us open"
Fiction and Poetry

Narcissus and I

Arshi Khan -
“Time is a blur and I do not remember what I was before. For as long as I know, the day I came upon these untouched waters, was the day I began to live. For is not to love, to live?”
Poetry

By the Beach With My Grandmother

Kartika Menon -
I hold her hand Her skin—wrinkled and loose and warm, green walls of veins I pinch it softly, and the fold stands, just for a moment, it stays like...
Fiction

Seasons

Tanmay Pandya -
“The changing of personalities, the unconscious smiles, the problematic views.”
Fiction and Poetry

Anthro-apology

Navya Iyer Kannan -
A poem by Navya
Fiction

Control

Armaan Verma -
“His ship has gone down on this occasion, as it has many times before, but he knows he will sail again and the same sea will be waiting to engulf him tomorrow.”
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