by Ng Yi-Sheng | Aug 8, 2016 | Fiction
Listen: next Monday at 4.30pm, Singapore will disappear. The entire island, its earth and earthworks, its rivers and reservoirs, its megamalls and museums, will vanish, poof, like so much gun smoke. Its flora and fauna too: its orchards and orioles, its rain trees and...
by Mark James Russell | Aug 8, 2016 | Fiction
When Samjogo descended from the Heavens, it was the first time in six months he had set foot on solid ground. He had never expected to be gone so long, but helping a star recover his wealth and save his family had grown much more complicated than he expected. Samjogo...
by Isha Karki | Aug 8, 2016 | Fiction
Branches jut towards us, splinters scrape our skin and sap leaks from bark split open, coating the curves of our shoulders, pooling in the dips of our clavicle. The forest anoints us. We can’t see through the curtain of leaves; we part our way with batons. A decade...
by Anil Menon | Aug 8, 2016 | Fiction
In its underground cavern, cathedral-like with its glittering spears of light and rust-stained barrel vaults, Goose continued to do what it had done for over five decades: route sludge water in the temple city of Mumbai. It was 3:04 AM IST, 2089 AD. Goose cared little...
by Dean Francis Alfar | Aug 8, 2016 | Fiction
When the boy inevitably grew up, married and moved away with his own growing family, the toymaker decided to make a girl. He did it this time in secret, afraid of what his neighbors would think, fearing the potential unjust accusation of prurience when all he wanted...
by Vajra Chandrasekera | Jun 8, 2016 | Fiction, Flash
Editor’s Note: “Caul” has been withdrawn from Mithila Review by the author.
