Issue Fall '24

Short Story

Friend of Their Youth

by Murali Kamma

The first time he saw Jagan was during an improvised cricket game in the spacious courtyard of an ancient, weather-beaten but stately house owned by ...read the full piece

Flash Fiction

I, Galatea

by Philipp Scheiber

I am Galatea. Somewhat. Not hewn from stone but forged, cast — my hot potential poured into some form that’s been made for me — no! Not even for me , ...read the full piece

"Left at the Loneliest" by Roi Yves Villadiego

Short Story

A Community That Cooks Together Stays Together

by Sreelekha Chatterjee

Samima rolls the dough and creates perfectly round chapattis. It would have been wonderful if life were as easy as preparing chapattis and not like a ...read the full piece

Essay

You Can't See Me but I'm in the Frame

by Nandita Dutta

My huge bay windows frame the constant flow of traffic, the blood gushing through the veins of the city, up and down, in all directions, oxygenating, ...read the full piece

Essay

Grieving In Your Name

by Bora Hah

“Your name becomes a song that flows in my heart. If I follow the water, will I get near you?” ― Kim Yuna, River I. HIM News of his death arrived in ...read the full piece

Essay

Patient Notes

by Bella Majam

My first brush with psychiatric hospitalization, I often joke, was a prelude to my sweet sixteenth. There are a few things you can only learn once ...read the full piece

Poetry

to conjure / conjure away

by Susanne Sophie Schmalwieser

we’ve been speaking since january or so and now the trees are growing flowers mostly pinks and whites i tell you how the hills in Morocco rest soft ...read the full piece