by Abhishek Bhatt | Jun 8, 2016 | Fiction, Flash
The biggest release of that year was a murder mystery. Three minutes into the movie, a cherubic cat named Nina was horrifically skinned alive and killed on camera for a snuff film. The next eighty-seven minutes gave you equally incriminating evidence against three...
by Theodora Goss | May 4, 2016 | Fiction
Her name is Ilona. The other children at school call her Smellona. She is not me, but I have been her. Here are the things I remember most clearly: _ She lives in a townhouse in Washington D.C. with her mother and younger brother, whose bangs are always cut crooked....
by Oliver Buckram | May 4, 2016 | Fiction
Washington, D.C. is filled with grand monuments to our cherished history. Behind closed doors, however, dark secrets fester in the shadowy bowels of the American body politic. As the world’s leading cryptohistorian, I’ve recently uncovered startling facts...
by Rabi Thapa | Apr 1, 2016 | Fiction
“Most of the stories in Nothing to Declare are located in a Kathmandu as experienced by young people. They go to school, drink and smoke, have sex, go abroad, and come back and get married. But the final story “Valley of Tears,” is a millennial conceit that seeks to...
by Ian McDonald | Apr 1, 2016 | Fiction
In a review of Ian McDonald’s monumental novel River of Gods, the Washington Post called him “a writer who is becoming one of the best SF novelists of our time.” Certainly, he has tapped into the zeitgeist with his recent work, which charts the move from...
by Jayant Vishnu Narlikar | Mar 14, 2016 | Fiction
Date : July 19, 1986. Time: 7.36 p.m. That was when it happened. At that precise moment of time, Professor Gangadharpant Gaitonde collided with a truck and apparently vanished into thin air. But let us begin the story at the beginning. Professor Gaitonde was an...