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Excerpts that open doors. Into other languages, other bodies, other griefs, other histories that were never quite yours until suddenly they were. Over eighty works spanning continents, genres, and the distance between one life and another.
Excerpts that open doors. Into other languages, other bodies, other griefs, other histories that were never quite yours until suddenly they were. Over eighty works spanning continents, genres, and the distance between one life and another.
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Excerpt: A Glimpse of My Life
Excerpt: A girl swallowed by a tree – Lotha Naga Tales Retold by Nzanmongi Jasmine Patton
Ecxerpt: What’s a Lemon Squeezer doing in my Vagina? A Memoir of Infertility
Memory & Time
A curated collection
Excerpt: A girl swallowed by a tree – Lotha Naga Tales Retold by Nzanmongi Jasmine Patton
Whispers of vanishing Lotha Naga tales echo. Identity is lost without them, a burning library. Folktales recover a people, echoing...
Excerpt: A Homesick Princess Visits Her Home On A Full Moon Night, Botanical Short Stories Anthology
A ghost princess finds freedoms unbound until curiosity brings her to her earthly home. She watches change bloom, a museum...
Excerpt: Cat People
Born into a city without cats, a child's world overflows with birds and animals. Only in stories do unreal felines...
Excerpt: Cold Renewal
Bombay's grit, a steel table's hum, and clinic odors meet sandwich slices. Fear lingers near ruins, under film star hoardings.
Excerpt: CogVerse
College air thick with forbidden knowledge. Scene books mask pulsing landscapes. Shame leads young men to a lady selling desires...
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Excerpt: The Bare Bones Book of Humour
Frustration yields to a weekend pill, igniting a primal, campus-roaming desire. Confidence blooms, fueling encounters, until a wife reveals a...
Excerpt: Letters From Your Therapist: On Love And Loss
Sunday calls mask a deeper ache. A childhood lost to caretaking, now a muted grief for a parent never truly...
Excerpt: The Man Traps
A longing for a cosmic counterpart shatters against harsh reality. Fire forges self-reliance, revealing "twin flames" as illusion, traps of...
Excerpt: moon blooms
From Malayalam slang to ectopic grief and American chai, a collection unfurls. The reader feels each poem's click, a stark,...
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Excerpt: Letters From Your Therapist: On Love And Loss
Sunday calls mask a deeper ache. A childhood lost to caretaking, now a muted grief for a parent never truly...
Excerpt: The Man Traps
A longing for a cosmic counterpart shatters against harsh reality. Fire forges self-reliance, revealing "twin flames" as illusion, traps of...
Excerpt: moon blooms
From Malayalam slang to ectopic grief and American chai, a collection unfurls. The reader feels each poem's click, a stark,...
Excerpt: Earthrise Stories
A dream of deluge, then drought. Death scented, stars signal. The reader journeys with a lonely, timeless recycler, amidst carcasses,...
