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Fiction (Short Stories & Excerpts)
Fiction, Short Stories and Excerpts of Novels. Indian Literature and Fiction from India and the world over.
More than a Scooter | Adarsh B Pradeep
Yes, you can come Home | John S. Shilshi
Wobbly Shades | Aditi Jain
The Man Who Ate in Hospitals | Meera Rajagopalan
Doctor Aarnay and the case of Numbers | Angandeep Kr Chatterjee
Hsi-wei and the Garden of Yangdi | Robert Wexelblatt
The Story In The Middle: Brooklyn 1996 | Leslie-Ann Murray
When I was young, my mother used to tell me that she was given the shittest end of the stick at birth, and as a result, her life would always follow the same path. So we can start this story anywhere in my mother’s life and the conclusion will be the same. When my mother stole my identity and left my brother Christopher and me to fend for ourselves in Trinidad, while she lived the supposed American Dream, I realized she told me about her shitty life because she was preparing me for my future.
The day my mother vanished with my passport and documents to America, I started engaging in the art of - dis-remembering where I worked on forgetting my past, people from the past, and any feelings that would bring me down to my last skin. I curated a surface existence, full of quibbles about the weather, celebrities, local politics, and the latest trends. I’d post on social media about my happy childless marriage, share funny memes, and repost my husband and my vacation pictures we took three years ago in Paris. Side note: Brahim and I took that vacation because our marriage was failing again and it was another attempt to save the dredges of our love. Three years later, we are still paying off our credit cards from that vacation, and I have quietly moved into our spare bedroom. [Read the rest...] “The Story In The Middle: Brooklyn 1996 | Leslie-Ann Murray”
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