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  • All Issues
    • Pratibhāsika (Speculative Fiction, July 2026)
    • The Many Lives of Atlas A (Special Issue, January 2026, Web Edition)
    • Fictile Feelings (Poetry Special, October 2025)
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  • Humour - Weekly Features

    The Rabbit and the Crow

    15 February 2026

    Brian Christopher Giddens — Excerpt: Jasper pulls at the leash, obviously embarrassed by me standing there, open-mouthed, staring.

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  • Humour - Weekly Features

    Flush Fiction

    15 February 2026

    Sadie Kaye — Excerpt: Daddy had salmonella poisoning, but he didn’t know it.

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  • Culture - Humour - Weekly Features

    Present Perfect and Other Demonic Possessions

    8 February 2026

    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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    “Gen Alpha and Their Pookie Dads” by Jasleen Kaur

    2 August 2026

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    26 July 2026
  • Humour - Weekly Features

    Aghori Monthly — Issue VII

    1 February 2026

    Aditi Dasgupta — Excerpt: At the immediate outskirts of this small speck on the map, there lived a sadhu of ambiguous age and unmistakable odour.

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  • Humour - Weekly Features

    They Cloned Jesus

    1 February 2026

    Natalie Wolf — Excerpt: When the video is released, Jesus is already twenty-one. Up until that point, he was being raised in a lab underground.

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