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False Flags – By Jonathan B. Ferrini
Flags wave mightily within the shadows where the trade winds blow.
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I walked a block from my San Diego fourplex housing myself and surfers who were scraping by to pay the rent and ride the waves. Living at the beach is like no other life. It changes your outlook and choices, sometimes, at a very high price. Freedom is expensive.
As the...
City of Sleepwalkers – By Constantin Severin
City of Sleepwalkers - A Novel By Constantin Severin
(An excerpt)
The death of words - the most apt motto for the chapter of the post-human era.
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I don't know what happened to Olav Thorsen, but after the first meeting he disappeared completely from my life, now I will have to tell my story only to the readers of this book. I...
Landfall – Poems – Keki N. Daruwalla
Book Review by Anjana Basu
Heresy of Verse
Keki Daruwalla continues to be prolific with his poetry, with his roots firmly planted in the past. Landfall follows the pathway laid out by Dante for inspiration, down a thin thread of history and illumination. Though yes, the reference is to Canto X which talks about that section of hell reserved for heretics...
Tim – By Nick Vallera
When he loses his job in an AI lab, the cleaner Henry hacks into a supercomputer called Tim to make it work for him. Tim finds free accommodation for Henry in the homes of wealthy people when the owners are away and helps him steal other people’s identities and money. But no matter how bright Tim is, it’s not...
James Willis – By Marc Isaac Potter
Author's note: I really feel as though ...what I can contribute is exploration of themes related to mental illnesses.such as what is mental illness in the first place. And in this particular story, I explore as what is multiple personality disorder...
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… My setting, the setting of the story, such as a courtyard - Ms. B says that is important. Such as: ...
Poems by Alar Mani
Translated from the Malayalam by Ra Sh (Ravi Shanker)
Suspicion
I see a man looking like a cop
At the junction.
He asks me
Whether I saw.
I ask myself
Whether I saw whether I saw
It seems like I saw.
When I say I saw
He asks me
Whether I did.
I ask myself
Whether I did whether I did.
It seems like I did.
When I say I did
Those who saw
And...
My Invented Land : New and Selected Poems – Robin S. Ngangom
Book Review by Anjana Basu
Witnessing The Daily Siege
Manipur is known for being the land of poets. playwrights, choreographers and more. It is also known for Irom Sharmila’s long fast and the Special Powers Act. Famous for being the stage of Netaji’s lost hope in World War-2, Manipur was drawn into Independent India with consequences that were disastrous to the...
Montmartre – By Julian Gallo
Pedestrian incubus; deformed cardboard faces and a Polish girl chatting with two thuggish drug dealers as rain pisses down on dizzying faces with handfuls of coins.
Posters advertising lesbian floor shows mask the elongated courtyard, distant and hallucinatory. I mask my enthusiasm and excitement with the typical New York cynicism that keeps my eyes on the thugs as they hover...
Poems by Nishy Leela George
Translated from the Malayalam by Dr. K.C.Muraleedharan
Tale of a MonkeyBeyond the river bank,
she sat anticipating the juicy heart
with the flavour of figs
The river takes him
into her.
The loneliness swinging on the trees
gazes into the mirroring river
and finds a blooming heart.
Half the way
mid-stream,
the river turns to sea.
the sea, the end of the world.
he sees in love
the shadow of death.
The loneliness...
Poems by Akbar
Translated from the Malayalam by Ra Sh (Ravi Shanker)
When I love a woman
How do I love a woman?
Swaying her like the wind
on the sea shore
or like the breeze that
touches the leaves on the
river bank,
drizzling on her, then storming,
cloud bursting upon her
or spattering like the sun’s glare?
Is it like the buds sprouting on
the wild trees or like the flowers...