Brian Christopher Giddens — Excerpt: Jasper pulls at the leash, obviously embarrassed by me standing there, open-mouthed, staring.
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Flush Fiction
Sadie Kaye — Excerpt: Daddy had salmonella poisoning, but he didn’t know it.
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Chuffed About Choughs
Aditi Patil — Excerpt: Tasked with carrying out research for Lahaul’s Forest Division, we would spot and admire the yellow-billed chough (Kiang) every day from our work spot.
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Present Perfect and Other Demonic Possessions
Sabyasachi Roy — Excerpt: This piece is by a Bengali who has been haunted, or rather, it is a haunting in eleven tenses. But, it always starts with the Present Perfect.
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Preserving a Heritage: Sita Bhaskar’s Rukmini Aunty and the R.K. Narayan Fan Club
Anjana Basu — Excerpt: [The] mix of literary history into the present-day narrative adds charm and layers to the book. One could call it an attempt to revive the interest in Narayan with a younger generation of readers.