Z. M. Asafzah — Excerpt: The story is a retelling of the “love story” of Orpheus and Eurydice, but entwines the Greek gods Hades and Persephone and their “love” story into its lore.
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Americana in a Bun
Jer Hayes — Excerpt: There was a time when the golden arches stood for more than a cheap meal, especially outside the United States.
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Engaging With This Thing Called Life: Neera Kashyap’s Cracks in the Wall
Chitra Gopalakrishnan — Excerpt: Neera Kashyap is quiet in her telling of daily complexities, bewilderment, frailties and failures of ordinary people within the microcosm she creates within each story... Light touches and restraint in her language co-exist with the potency of her querying and divulgences.
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‘Mouse in the House’ and ‘If I Could Cut Off My Ear Like Vincent’
Samiksha Ransom — Excerpt: In the quietness of my head / would a song break out?
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The Tale of the Psychotic Mouse
D.C. Nobes — Excerpt: This was the point at which we realised that this was not a normal mouse... So we christened it The Psychotic Mouse (TPsM).