Issue 132

Deb Olin Unferth

She had already imagined it all, so much so that when she finally did see him, she felt unable to speak.

Issue 130

Upamanyu Chatterjee

Younger Daughter’s declaration that ‘Othello sucks’ prompts a conflicted response from Father.

Manjula Padmanabhan

‘A single pod of cardamom! Was that enough? To flavour an entire life’s pot of time?’

Ludmila Ulitskaya

‘The red girls’ school stood opposite a grey boys’ school, built five years after it as if to proclaim the rational symmetry of the world.’

Lorna Gibb

‘There were rules to the game. I could not lose my virginity and I had to be careful not to let a boy go further than I wanted to.’

Upamanyu Chatterjee

‘He was the one survivor who remembered nothing.’

Daisy Hildyard

‘The sexual activity was dense and rapid everywhere that he was not.’

Issue 130

Anjali Joseph

‘Like scraps of leather, oddly shaped, things from life, people and sayings and objects, found themselves spliced together.’

Anjum Hasan

Diane Williams

‘An hour passed. Why not say twenty years?’

Issue 130

Arun Kolatkar

‘Selecting the right kind of a tomato was crucial for the scam to work.’

Ben Hoffman

‘Did you notice our daughter is not our daughter anymore?’

Issue 131

Sebastià Jovani

‘The aim of this study is to visualise a means of understanding the essential aspects of a literary text.’

Issue 130

Kalpana Narayanan

'Venkat was afraid of saying something wrong.'