FICTION: Fish Ghostess

/ Shreyonti Chakraborty / Fiction
My grandmother’s ghost hangs on the coconut tree. I have repeatedly suggested that the mango […]

FICTION: Longboxes of Love

/ Patrick Nevins / Fiction
He was a conscientious B student and trusted office aide, which was he how he […]

FICTION: Submission

/ Gauraa Shekhar / Fiction
Gauraa wakes up at 6 AM on Sunday to work on the story she started […]

FICTION: Blind Man’s Bluff

/ Sobia Ali / Fiction
When  the  twilight  crept  over  our  remote, small  village  after  long, suffocating  days  of  the  […]

FICTION: Sami Sahab

/ Paras Abbasi / Fiction
Sami Arain is a funny man. And when I say funny I don’t mean that […]

FICTION: The Soccer Game

/ Daniela Serrano / Fiction
That night the sex hadn’t been great, but six years into their relationship she had […]

FICTION: Thump

/ Rob Hengsterman / Fiction
The glare of surgical lights exploits the man’s ashen flesh. “Airway,” someone yells. Gurgles escape […]

FICTION: We Opened Up So Quickly

/ Sascha Akhtar / Fiction
After F.L. we opened up so quickly like cracked shells — spilling out, spilling out. […]

FICTION: Glitch Operative

/ Mike Corrao / Fiction
My anatomy is rendered onto the luminous surface of the monitor. Simplified into rigid cuts […]

FICTION: A Diagram

/ Gaurav Monga / Fiction
In order to translate his short stories, the translators of his work have traversed two […]

FICTION: Cotton Candy

/ Eisuke Aikawa tr. Toshiya Kamei / Fiction
“I still need some tomatoes and beer,” Matsumoto mumbled. In the meat section of the […]

FICTION: Battle of Plassey

/ Torsa Ghosal / Fiction
1. “In 1757, the Nawab of Bengal’s army fought the British East India company for […]

FICTION: What Women Adore

/ Megan Howell / Fiction
Kileen’s eyes went to the boy in row b, latching onto him and reeling her […]

FICTION: The Draw of It

/ Ansgar Allen / Fiction
The outcrop held the attention of those in the bay, having appeared at first light, […]

FICTION: The Chair of Death

/ Tom Halford / Fiction
Your great-grandmother, she had a jingle jangle laugh. Sweet and timeless, it was the laugh […]

FICTION: That Old Chestnut

/ Elliot Harper / Fiction
“That old Chester, eh?” He says. I frown. What does he mean? He sits there […]

FICTION: The Humbug Pears

/ Natasha Derczynski / Fiction
At 11.30am, home is eight hours away and my bones are sitting so heavy in […]

FICTION: Agony

/ Sarah MacKenzie / Fiction
Maurice felt there was something misguided in fate’s gesturing when, at four o’clock in the […]

FICTION: Disturb My Slumber

/ Matt Rowan / Fiction
A boy spat on a brick wall, thinking nothing of it. Or if thinking something […]

FICTION: Movie Time

/ Nishi Pulugurtha / Fiction
On a warm September evening they had gone for a movie. Shubhadip usually did not […]

FICTION: Minerva, California

/ Seamus O'Connor / Fiction
The night we arrived in Minerva we came into town over the old drawbridge, into […]

FICTION: Cyclone Season

/ EC Sorenson / Fiction
They approach A tangerine lands in Tom’s hands, thrown from the across the pond, over […]

FICTION: Baby, I’m Comin’

/ Aaron H. Aceves / Fiction
We will be lying on our white leather sofa, watching TV. You’ll be nestled underneath […]

FICTION: Blackout

/ Abby Manzella / Fiction
The lights are out. The wind beats the “Welcome” sign that came with the apartment […]

FICTION: Restless Myth

/ Coleman Bomar / Fiction
He was just another hellenistic hero, born blessed, who sought greater horizons than huts under […]

FICTION: Traumic Knock

/ SJ Fowler / Fiction
‘I am the thinnest person I know (and that’s saying something, for I am no […]