Saraswati Nagpal — Excerpt: The fridge is bare. She waves a dying tomato in the air to prove her point. My brain is trying to find another word for “splendour.”
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The Clocks
Maureen Tai — Excerpt: As I wandered from room to room, I noticed that each clock, housed in a separate room, showed a time of just before or just after 5 o’clock.
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January
Bidisha Satpathy — Excerpt: In the mirror, I look like I did in December, with an addition of about seven greying hair.
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The Beard Ban
Roger Chapman — Excerpt: They simply won’t be allowed to have a beard and a moustache at the same time.
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Otto’s Obituary
Brian Christopher Giddens — Excerpt: Otto went through two brooms a season, and multiple pairs of jeans due to holes in the knees.