The Absentee

Gauri sat nervously in the lobby of a high end salon, clutching the bridal package…

Preexisting Conditions

“Are you ready to go?” Kristine asks, unballing a pair of her pantyhose. Jack shakes…

Exile

Exile was first published in Issue 17 of >kill author. For my namesakeEl desterrado es ese…

Gasoline

My TV, computer and spare cash left with Laura. She’d visited her favorite shoe store…

Transit for Beginners

I met him at Changi airport. After a seven hour flight from Tokyo, preceded by…

Dream of the Butterfly

I am writing this. I want to keep writing something. I had started with something,…

Amy and the Question of Before

What do you do before you do?This is a zen koan. I invented it. I…

Singapore Girl

(From Nabina Das’ soon-to-come short story collection “The House of Twining Roses – Stories of…

Mother

Her absence is the kitchen’s lack of aroma. Back in the day, what seemed to…

This Place Can Be Beautiful Again

I sat by the river, on a damp log half-buried in mud, and watched how…