Literature from India and the world over! Indian Literature Magazine
Novosibirsk, Russia. 1942.
They were cleaning the train bogeys in the morning when they found the body. It was Jack, to stipulate. He found the body slumped and trashed in the deep corner end which was mostly beside the washroom. … [Read the rest...] “The Burning Chain | Gaurav Mistary”
“The shape and size of your hands tells you what sort of person you are,” said the old lady seated on the lower berth in the train, wrapped in black and blue looking ominous and like a rounded cozy hen. … [Read the rest...] “The Hands of a Killer | Nirupama Akella”
Geeta had cultivated a strange habit that befuddled her friends. As was wont of her posse, she frequently indulged in lengthy monologues fraught with much feeling and little matter, but this was not strange. In midst of such emotional expostulations, … [Read the rest...] “Catoptromancy | Shefali Shah Choksi”
I tried to take out as many sticks as I possibly could from the matchbox in my uncontrolled enthusiasm induced clumsiness; but of no avail. The matchbox was new; full of sticks, it was impossible to hold together too many … [Read the rest...] “The Playhouse | Bhabendra Nath Saikia”
My dreary existence speaks for itself. As the night drops in on us to take us to fitful sleep, I lie awake, dreading tomorrow, with its infinitely long seconds; I don’t know what to do with the time I’ve been … [Read the rest...] “The Boy With No Face | Bhanuraj Kashyap”
I passed my passport over to him at the counter. He took a good look at it and then looked at me. He didn’t stamp my passport, instead he said, “Take the exit corridor, the officer there will guide you … [Read the rest...] “An Act Of Defiance | Mithun Moosa (Kalki)”
[Excerpt, “Chapter 24 The Saxophone in the Stars”, from The Diamond Kings of Clarence Checkeredfish. Note: the novel (and “play”) near completion as Stevie Bingo and the Gingerbread Boy, having traveled the long and perilous road from Mobile to … [Read the rest...] “Chapter 24 The Saxophone in the Stars by Brian S. Hart”
Sharp knives sliced through hearts of tender vegetable flesh as Kavita plunged deeper into her monthly duty to learn traditional family recipes. She felt angered by the four phone calls from her mother just that day brokering a conversation in … [Read the rest...] “Family Recipe | Ann Thomas Seitz”
