Editor’s Note
“You’ve gotten fat,” Ishita begins, “on second-hand grief.” Does her subject, like the Bard’s Lady Constance, have “reason to be fond of grief”? We are not told. This is a consolation the narrator comes offering a consolation: “Consider the millies”.
But as we read further and contemplate the images, things become less certain about who is talking to whom and exactly what is being offered. There is a koan-like quality to Ishita’s words which resists easy filing. Which is great. Which is what makes literature fun. Which is why we chose to offer it to you.
—Anil Menon
The Bombay Literary Magazine
Author | Ishita Basu Mallik
Ishita Basu Mallik is a visual artist/cartoonist/writer/poet based in Kolkata. Her work has previously been published in ANMLY, Komikaze, SUSPECT, The Deadlands, and elsewhere, and recently received a Pushcart Prize nomination. In 2011, she won the TFA award for Creative Writing in English. She posts more or less regularly on instagram @sunbornart. [Text source: Ishita Basu Mallik]
