Turtles

Editor's Note Anukrti Upadhyay sets the tone of Turtles with the lines, ‘how do you…

The Price

Editor's Note What do you do when someone makes a mockery of your loss, someone…

Nothingness

Editor's Note ‘Nothing is sacred’: there is, perhaps, a certain value in this statement, especially…

Lajja Gauri

Editor's Note It seems that one of the things that stories want is metamorphosis—for their…

An Encounter

Editor's Note A scholar of contemporary gender relations goes out on a Bumble date. In…

Second Place

Editor's Note The unstable love triangle is a weird instance of Hitchcock’s bomb, in which…

Stupid Language

Editor's Note A death in the family, or the mortality of a parent: in almost…

On the Occasion of the Death of Our Cat

Editor's Note Advice is the vice of the wise. In Martinez's story, a wise old…

Maari

Editor's Note What is the runtime of nightmares? Where does grief settle in the body?…

Tolls We Hear

Editor's Note A foreigner, as Edmond Jabès suggested, is someone who "makes you think you…