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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.
Browse until something stops you cold.
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.
Browse until something stops you cold.

Memory & Time

A curated collection

Issue 7 - Environment

Excerpt: Cat People

By Anukrti Upadhyay

Born into a city without cats, a child's world overflows with birds and animals. Only in stories do unreal felines...

Matchbox - June/July '25

Excerpt: Cold Renewal

By Dion D’Souza

Bombay's grit, a steel table's hum, and clinic odors meet sandwich slices. Fear lingers near ruins, under film star hoardings.

Issue 8 - Kindness

Excerpt: CogVerse

By Vivekanand Selvaraj

College air thick with forbidden knowledge. Scene books mask pulsing landscapes. Shame leads young men to a lady selling desires...

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Then What Happened?

Who is Writing? 

By Tultul Biswas

Through stories of loss, resilience, and displacement, this excerpt explores the ethics of writing about lives different from our own.

Matchbox – May ’26

Excerpt: The Man Traps

By Kalashree Sengupta

A longing for a cosmic counterpart shatters against harsh reality. Fire forges self-reliance, revealing "twin flames" as illusion, traps of...

Matchbox – May ’26

Excerpt: moon blooms

By Athira Unni

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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