“When my fingers move, shapes appear. I build bricks by cutting my fingernails and placing them one on top of the other, gluing them with drops of chai. I place memories in the room, pulling some strands of hair from each woman in our family and using it to make objects.”
“If she covered her face well, it looked like there was nothing wrong with her. Perhaps, there was nothing wrong with her. It could all just be in her head. She could be going crazy. Maybe every woman loses her mind at some point.”
“Not long after first using the serum, she began to hear voices in the walls. Without Leonard there to share the four-poster bed with her, or to ease her fears, she slept terribly and often woke in a cold sweat, convinced she had heard the voices screaming.”
“Beyond responding to modernity and its changes, both science fiction and modernist literature share a commitment to making readers’ reality of the world strange and foreign, producing an “estranging” effect that can in turn allow readers to view their world more critically.”
Speculative short stories published by South Asian authors, from January to March 2025.