The Chemist’s Wife

In the summer that my neighbor’s husband got stopped and sent to Rikers, I rode…

Bamboo Wedding

It was a quiet day at the admissions office at NYU. Somwattie and Devika stood…

Cold

The cold is a thing any woman can grow accustomed to. Lacey May learned how…

Poor Girls’ Palace

Our mother had been gone now for eleven days. Her longest recess yet. Recess is…

Still Life

I lie and say this scar’s a gift from my cat. Three inches long, hypertrophic,…

An Introduction to the Monster (Novel Excerpt)

Thank you for that New Year’s Day. That day the monster was on my back.…

Ain’t That Good News

  Florence Holmes kept her knife in Psalm 94.  An eight-inch stiletto with a pearl…

Review: White-eye Bird – The Vegetarian by Han Kang

‘Shorn of its ceremony the body is, at best, a torn, riven thing – covered…

A Love Song of a Dance

Following Sowmya’s dance debut there were angry letters to the editor in The Indian Standard.…

Call Me Soft

On a warm August night in Brussels, a curator, Orient, of feminist inclination, dressed up…