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Fiction and Poetry

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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.”
Poetry

North of Caufield

A. R. -
A poem by A.R.
Poetry

Scenes From A Terrace

Kanishk Devgan -
A poem by Kanishk Devgan
Dispatch

Dear Friend

Tainton Niall -
This entry won 5th place in the Dispatch 2020 creative writing competition
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