Hunger

Flash Fiction
By: | January 28, 2016

There's a story told of my voice that says it was bought from a witch, the result of an occult surgery. I am said to treat it nightly with… More

The Child

Play
By: | March 25, 2014

ZELDA: You never touched your bank account. / VANESSA: No. / ZELDA: How come? / VANESSA: It belonged to another person. I was no longer that person. I… More

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"We forgot that nothing is permanent, least of all freedom"—@ghazalawahab

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For the 75th anniversary of Indian independence, I participated in this extraordinary project, which brings together over a hundred Indian and diaspora writers to reflect on free expression and democracy https://pen.org/india-at-75/

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