Mithila Review
01 · The Archive

Fiction

Short stories and novellas from the speculative edges of the real.

88 works 2016–2022 Open access
88 works

Issue 1 · Inaugural Issue — March 2016

Resurrection Points Usman T. Malik Issue 1 Braveheart’s Homecoming Dilman Dila Issue 1

Issue 2 · Subcontinental Speculations — April 2016

Valley of Tears Rabi Thapa Issue 2 Sanjeev and Robotwallah Ian McDonald Issue 2 The Adventure Jayant Vishnu Narlikar Issue 2

Issue 3 · Futures Across Borders — May 2016

Theodora Goss: Her Mother's Ghosts Theodora Goss Issue 3 Oliver Buckram: Presidential Cryptotrivia Oliver Buckram Issue 3

Issue 4 · Monsoon Cosmologies — June 2016

Vajra Chandrasekera: Caul Vajra Chandrasekera Issue 4 Abhishek Bhatt: Choose Your Killer Abhishek Bhatt Issue 4

Issue 5-6 · The Asian SF Double Issue — July/August 2016

Priya Sharma: Egg Priya Sharma Issue 5-6 Ng Yi-Sheng: No Other City Ng Yi-Sheng Issue 5-6 Mark James Russell: Samjogo and the Vengeful Stories Mark James Russell Issue 5-6 Isha Karki: Rooting Isha Karki Issue 5-6 Anil Menon: Shit Flower Anil Menon Issue 5-6 Dean Francis Alfar: The New Daughter Dean Francis Alfar Issue 5-6 David S. Golding: Give and Receive David S. Golding Issue 5-6 Amal Singh: Rudali Amal Singh Issue 5-6 Indra Das: Excerpt from The Devourers Indrapramit Das Issue 5-6

Issue 7 · Cosmic Sociology — January–March 2017

The Twelve Rules of Etiquette at Miss Firebird’s School for Girls Gwendolyn Kiste Issue 7 Axes on Viola Jaroslav Mostecky Issue 7 La Gorda and the City of Silver Sabrina Vourvoulias Issue 7 American Moat Carlos Hernandez Issue 7 Winds That Stir Vermilion Sands David Bowles Issue 7 Gringos Ernest Hogan Issue 7

Issue 8 · Visual Arts Special — May 2017

The Tailings Brian Daniel Green & Florita Gunasekara Issue 8 Ruin Marble Arkady Martine Issue 8 Champollion’s Foot Haris A. Durrani Issue 8 Datsue-Ba Eliza Chan & Kieran Walsh Issue 8

Issue 9 · New Cartographies — September 2017

Stories We Carry On The Back Of The Night Jasper Sanchez Issue 9 Excerpts: Half of What I Say Anil Menon Issue 9 Partition Tehseen Baweja Issue 9 Blonde Priya Sharma Issue 9 Thorns In My Throat Shveta Thakrar Issue 9 The Mountain Vandana Singh Issue 9 Binaries S.B. Divya Issue 9 Five Lessons in the Fattening Room Khalidah Muhammad Ali Issue 9 Hide Mahesh Raman Issue 9 Excerpts: Hammer in the Dark Mary Anne Mohanraj Issue 9 The Universal Library Erik Born Issue 9

Issue 10 · Tenth Milestone Edition — September 2018

A Time Called L’apatia Sarah M. Prindle Issue 10 Crisis Damien Krsteski Issue 10 Sita’s Descent Indrapramit Das Issue 10 Lopamudra’s Wedding Bhushita Vasistha Issue 10 I, Lilli Man Rahad Abir Issue 10 The Glass-Toothed Wolf Dennis Mombauer Issue 10 Tigerflies or The City of the Night Alexandra Seidel Issue 10 Dessert Heads Rajendra Shepherd Issue 10

Issue 11 · Borderline Realities — December 2018

On the Seventh Day Toshiya Kamei & Madruga Issue 11 Domesticated Bastek Issue 11 The Devil Buys Us Cheap and the Devil Buys in Bulk Matthew Bennardo Issue 11 The Domovoi Margariti Issue 11 No Folly of the Beast W. Wallis Issue 11 The Great Wall of America D. A. Hewitt Issue 11

Issue 12 · Diaspora Currents — April 2019

The Kiss of the Water Malena Salazar Maciá & Toshiya Kamei Issue 12 The Carnival of Human Nature Dennis Mombauer Issue 12 The Executioner General Balasa Issue 12 Sonya, Josephine, and the Tragic Re-Invention of the Telephone I. S. Heynen Issue 12 Flower Arranging at the End of the Japanese Empire Dean A. Brink Issue 12 Upshot Drema Deòraich Issue 12 The Ghost Teas of Sakurajima Deborah L. Davitt Issue 12

Issue 13 · Planetary Entanglements — September 2019

The Breaking Vanessa Fogg Issue 13 Sparrow Yilin Wang Issue 13 Young Witch, Old Witch H. Pueyo Issue 13 Strange Recollections of Brook Farm H. Frankel Issue 13 Haunted Castle on the Midway D. J. W. Munro Issue 13 Sorcerers’ Highway Theodore Singer Issue 13 Mid-Term Ecolit Examination Paper P. Chabria Issue 13

Issue 14 · The Solitary Sky — June 2020

As Dark As Hunger S. Qiouyi Lu Issue 14 Your Dinner Derek Anderson Issue 14 Things Not to Say Amy Collini Issue 14 The Trial of Tesslin VanGlaise Chloe Agar Issue 14 The Call to Neigh Daniel McKay Issue 14 Mother’s Blood Elijah Petty Issue 14 Iterations Christian Monson Issue 14 Blood Relations J. Check Issue 14

Issue 15 · Re-Emergence — December 2020

The Knowing Neelu Singh Issue 15 Our Bodies Sing the Stars Carlos Norcia Issue 15 Of Castles and Oceans Nicole Tanquary Issue 15 Different Shores David Dale H Issue 15 Children Between Lines Soham Guha Issue 15 Arisudan Rimi B. Chatterjee Issue 15

Issue 16 · Planet Democracy — July 2022

Zen and the Art of Gaia Maintenance Jetse de Vries Issue 16 Trucker Buzz Dixon Issue 16 Milkman Eve Morton Issue 16 This is My Home Mark Rivett Issue 16 Harefoot Express Paulo da Costa Issue 16 The Rhythms of the World Johnny Caputo Issue 16 The Ones Who Scream America Brian Bagnall Issue 16