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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 Speculative Fiction
A father finds cure for his mangled newborn. But a djinn’s magic cannot overpower a mother’s instinct, though its impact...
Excerpt: moon blooms
From Malayalam slang to ectopic grief and American chai, a collection unfurls. The reader feels each poem's click, a stark,...
Who is Writing?
Through stories of loss, resilience, and displacement, this excerpt explores the ethics of writing about lives different from our own.
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...
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Excerpt : The Moplah Speaks of the Rivers
Excerpt: The Bare Bones Book of Speculative Fiction
A father finds cure for his mangled newborn. But a djinn’s magic cannot overpower a mother’s instinct, though its impact...
Excerpt: Days of Recovery
Who is Writing?
Through stories of loss, resilience, and displacement, this excerpt explores the ethics of writing about lives different from our own.
