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 David S. Golding | Aug 8, 2016 | Fiction
The school grounds held few secrets, for they swirled with voices eager to tell and retell, but beyond the outside wall and across the train tracks there was a hidden place. Ana found it one day after classes. She was on her way to buy coconut oil for her mother when...
by Amal Singh | Aug 8, 2016 | Fiction
They have come to weep for those who can’t. Ramsingh Chaudhury’s haveli smells of cinnamon and incense, charred wood and pine oil, age and death. Ten women gather around the zamindar’s body lying still in the center of the hall, all in white, their eyes blank, their...
by Indrapramit Das | Aug 8, 2016 | Excerpts, Fiction
My part in this story began the winter before winters started getting warmer, on a full-moon night so bright you could see your own shadow on an unlit rooftop. It was under that moon—slightly smudged by December mist clinging to the streets of Kolkata—that I met a man...
by Vajra Chandrasekera | Jun 8, 2016 | Fiction, Flash
Editor’s Note: “Caul” has been withdrawn from Mithila Review by the author.
